1920 J Recent Literature. 495 



Grinnell, George Bird. A Chapter and Natural History in Old New 



York. (Ibid, January-February, 1920.) — With recollections of Audu- 

 bon Park. 



Worcester, Dean C. A Nesting Place of Micropus subfurcatus in 

 Mindoro. (Philippine Journal of Science, December, 1919.) 



Anderson, J. A., Rintoul, L. J., and Baxter, E. V. Occurrences of 

 the American Wigeon in Scotland. (Scottish Naturalist, January-Febru- 

 ary, 1920.) 



Baxter, Evelyn V. and Rintoul, Leonora J. The Wigeon as a 

 Scottish Breeding Species. (Scottish Naturalist, January-February, and 

 March-April, 1920.) 



Macready, Prof. The Birds of Prince Edward Island. (Bull, No. 

 1, Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, P. E. I.) — Reprinted from the 

 'Teachers Magazine', April 1916. A briefly annotated list in the form 

 of a table. 



Oberholser, H. C. A Synopsis of the Races of the Guiana Flycatcher 

 Myiarchus ferox (Gmelin.) (Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 1918, pp. 304-308.) 

 — Eight races recognized, none new. 



Eifrig, C. W. G. The Birds of the Sand Dunes of Northwestern Indiana. 

 (Ibid. pp. 280-303.) 



Shufeldt, R. W. The Mounted Collection of Australian Birds in 

 the United States National Museum. (Museum Work, 1920, pp. 212- 

 218.) — From the author's account one might judge that the National 

 Museum Collection of Australian birds was the most important in America 

 while as every ornithologist knows the original Gould Collection contain- 

 ing the great majority of the types of this pioneer is at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences in Philadelphia where an almost complete exhibition 

 series mounted by the famous Verreaux brothers has been displayed for 

 many years. 



Frowhawk, F. W. Birds Beneficial to Agriculture. (Economic 

 Series, No. 9. Guidebooks of the British Museum (Natural History) 

 47 pp. 22 plates. An excellent review of economic ornithology in Great 

 Britian. 



Duerden, J. E. Breeding Experiments with North African and South 

 African Ostriches, VI. Degeneration. (Bull. no. 7. 1919. Dept. of 

 Agric, Union of South Africa.) — -A continuation of the author's valuable 

 reports on Ostrich farming. (Cf. also Nature, CV, pp. 106-108, 1920.) 



Butterfield, E. P. The Common Wren. (Irish Naturalist, March, 

 1920.) — Roosting and in one instance breeding in the "male nests." 



Gladstone, H. S. A Naturalist's Calendar, kept by Sir. William 

 Jardine. (Trans. & Proc. Dumfrieshire and Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiq. 

 Soc, VI, pp. 88-124. 1919.)— Covering January 1 to May 31, 1829. 



Philpott, Alfred. On the Occurrences of the Australian Coot in New 

 Zealand. (New Zealand Jour, of Science and Tech., Ill, pp. 55-56. 1920.) 



Donald, C. H. The Birds of Prey of the Punjab. III. (Journal 

 of the Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. XXVI, pp. 826-835. 1919.) 



