OOO Recent Literature. [April 



McAtee, W. L. Good Birds and Bad Birds. (Twenty-first Biennial 

 Rept. Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 1917-18.) — Published 1919. 

 An excellent resume of the subject of economic ornithology. 



Krum, Olin C. The Progress of Wild Life Conservation Work at 

 Cornell. (Bull. Amer. Game Protect. Asso., October, 1919.) — A most 

 interesting illustrated account. 



LaDue, H. J. The Protection of Winter Birds. (Ibid.) — Admirable 

 suggestions on this matter. 



Holland, R. P. Federal Government to the Rescue of the Egrets. 

 (Ibid.) — Describes the seizure of egrets in the hands of wholesale milliners 

 and plume hunters in Florida and calls the attention of women to the 

 fact that they are now liable to prosecution if they appear on the street 

 wearing egrets. 



Holland, R. P. Egg Destroying Vermin. (Ibid., January, 1920.) 

 Calls attention to the attitude of all game-keepers against all hawks as 

 well as various gulls and other birds which destroy eggs. The breeding 

 of game of course creates abnormal conditions on the breeding grounds 

 and attracts predaceous animals. The outlawing of all of the latter 

 regardless of what their original character may have been is the next step. 

 At every move, however, we are further upsetting the balance of nature. 

 Where it will eventually land us it is difficult to say. 



Brownell, L. W. Getting Acquainted. (Blue Bird, XII, 1919-1920.) 

 A series of illustrated accounts of our familiar birds. 



Bowen, Georgia M. The Way of the Protectionist. (Ibid.) A 

 serial on the history and method of bird protection. 



Bowles, J. Hooper. Nesting Habits of the Cowbird. (The Oolo- 

 gists' Exchange and Mart, November, 1919.) 



DeBeaufort, L. F., and DeBussy, L. P. Birds of the East Coast of 

 Sumatra. (Bijd. tot. de Dierkunde, XXI, pp. 229-276.)— List of 282 

 species, with annotations and a map. None new. [In Dutch.] 



Virchow, Hans. The Possible Movements of the Vertebral Column 

 of the Flamingo. (Archiv. fur Anatomie und Physiologie, IV, pp. 245- 

 254. 1916.) [In Dutch.] 



Currie, C. C. Birds of a Gippsland Garden. (Victorian Naturalist, 

 XXXVI, No. 6, October, 1919.) — Popular account of familiar Australian 

 birds. 



Gillespie, T. H. The Breeding of the King Penguin. (Nature, CIV, 

 p. 314, November 20, 1919.) — This describes the breeding in the Zoological 

 Garden at Edinburgh of birds received in 1914 and 1917 from South 

 Georgia Island. An egg laid September 1 hatched October 24 (7 weeks 

 and 4 days). The young was small and the skin bare, but it grew rap- 

 idly. It was kept at first between the parent's feet and covered by the 

 skin fold as was the egg. It was fed on disgorged, partly digested fish. 



Ochoterena, Isaac. The Geographic-Botanic Regions of Mexico. 

 (Boletin Soc. Mex. Geogr. y. Estadist., VIII, part 2, 1919.)— Considers 

 animals also. [In Spanish.] 



