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Birds of the National Parks. 1 — Two years ago in referring to the 

 Circulars of Information of the National Parks (The Auk, XXXV, p. 

 493, 1918), attention was called to the need of lists of the birds of Crater 

 Lake, Mt. Rainier, Rocky Mountain, and Yosemite. Lists for the last 

 two parks have now been supplied. In the Rules and Regulations for 

 1920 bird lists are included in the circulars for Rocky Mountain, Sequoia, 

 Yellowstone, and Yosemite, and notes on twelve characteristic birds in 

 that for Mt. Rainier. The Glacier Park list is no longer published in 

 the circular but forms part of the special bulletin on 'Wild Animals of 

 Glacier Park', 1918 (See The Auk, XXXVI, p. 434, 1919). 



Through an unfortunate oversight the names of the authors of the 

 Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone lists have been omitted and conse- 

 quently the notes lose much of the authority which they should 

 have when reduced to the category of brief lists in anonymous official 

 publications in which it is impossible to ascertain the responsibility for 

 the statements. It is evident however that Dean Babcock is the author 

 of the list for the Rocky Mountain Park, and M. P. Skinner of that for 

 the Yellowstone. The last mentioned list contains 200 species as com- 

 pared with 194 in 1918 while the Sequoia list includes only 168 as com- 

 pared with 182 two years ago. It is much to be desired that the notes 

 in the anonymous lists should be made at least as full as those in the 

 Yosemite list by Grinnell and Storer. Bird lists for Crater Lake, Grand 

 Canyon, Lafayette, Mt. Rainier and Wind Cave National Parks, and 

 also for the Muir Woods National Monument are still greatly needed. — 

 T. S. P. 



Game Laws for 1920. — The United States Department of Agriculture 

 has issued the usual summary of the Federal, State and Provincial game 

 laws as Farmers' Bulletin 1138 2 , the compilation being the work of George 

 A. Lawyer and Frank L. Earnshaw of the Biological Survey. The plan 

 follows that of previous years. First is given a synopsis of the open 

 seasons in the various States and Territories and the Provinces of Canada 

 followed by a summary of the new legislation passed during the year. 



The wide circulation of the information in this pamphlet will do more 

 to save wild bird life than anything else and we trust that all who receive 

 the pamphlet will follow the request on the inside of the cover and "show 

 the bulletin to a neighbor." 



1 Rules and Regulations, Mount Rainier National Park (birds pp. 13-17): 

 Ibid. Rocky Mountain National Park (birds pp. 30-36); Ibid. Sequoia and 

 General Grant National Parks (birds pp. 26-31); Ibid. Yellowstone National 

 Park (birds pp. 80-90); Ibid. Yosemite National Park (birds pp. 50-54). Na- 

 tional Park Service, Dept of the Interior, 1920. Free on application to the 

 Director of the National Park Service, Washington, D. C. 



2 Game Laws for 1920. Farmers' Bulletin. 1138, U. S. Department of Agri. 

 culture. A summary of the Provision of Federal, State and Provincial Statutes, 

 pp. 1-84 To be had on application to the Division of Publications, U S. Dept- 

 of Agriculture. 



