308 Recent Literature. LAprii 



Our Responsibility. By Mabel Osgood Wright. — Another admirable 

 account of winter bird life, in Connecticut. 



Notes from a Traveller in the Tropics. Cuba to Panama. By Frank M. 

 Chapman. 



An Evening with Birds in Florida. By J. W. Lippincott. 



The Great Horned Owl. By F. N. Whitman. — Account of nest and 

 young. 



Under ' Migration and Plumages of North American Birds ' the Ravens 

 are considered, and there is the usual large collection of Christmas lists. 



The Condor. XX, No. 6. November-December. 1918. 



Nesting of the Rocky Mountain Jay. By W. C. Bradbury. — A valu- 

 able account with numerous illustrations of the bird, its nest, eggs, and 

 haunts. 



Description of a new Lanius from Lower California. By Harry C. Ober- 

 holser.- — Lanius htdovicianus nelsoni (p. 209), Todos Santos. 



Mr. P. A. Taverner has a letter explaining his practice of employing only 

 binomial nomenclature until the necessary specimens and comparisons are 

 available to ensure beyond a doubt to which race the bird in question 

 belongs (see bej-ond p. 316). 



The Condor. XXI, No. 1. January- February, 1919. 



A Return to the Dakota Lake Region. By Florence Merriam Bailey. — 

 A continuation oi this delightful article. 



The Solitaires of Shasta. By W. Leon Dawson. — Good account of the 

 bird and its nesting, with illustrations from photographs. 



Nesting of the Short-eared Owl in Western Washington. By E. A. 

 Kitchin. — Good illustrations of nest and young. 



Problem : Do Birds Mate for Life? By J. Eugene Law. — The same sug- 

 gestion is made, among others, as is offered in ' The Auk,' p. 138, in comment 

 on a paper of similar title by F. C. Willard. A farther extended comment 

 on the same paper follows Mr. Law's, which is by N. K. Carpenter and 

 supports Mr. Willard, although the evidence except in one instance is no 

 more convincing than was his. 



Parasitism of Nestling Birds by Fly Larvae. By O. E. Plath. — This is a 

 valuable account of the same parasites referred to in a letter of Dr. W. W. 

 Arnold in ' The Auk ' for January, 1919, p. 147, giving a much fuller 

 history of the insect. 



Wilson Bulletin. XXX, No. 4. December, 1918. 



Finding the Nest of the Knot. By W. Elmer Erkblaw. — On the 

 Crocker Land Expedition, in 1916. Eggs now in the American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



Migration Records for Kansas Birds. By Bessie P. Douthitt.— This 

 instalment covers the water birds only. The nomenclature does not 

 follow the A. O. U. List but seems to be a compilation from various authors 

 who have ideas of their own on this subject. The result is rather startling. 

 In the Cranes for instance, the author divides our three species, which 

 everyone has regarded as congeneiic, into two groups Limnogeranus and 



