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three more forms making sixteen in all which he now recognizes and which 

 occur at one time of the year or another within the state. The " thick- 

 billed Sparrow " of the Sierra Nevada proves to be different from P. i. 

 megarhynca and is therefore named ?nariposoe (p. 161), type from Yosemite 

 Park. The breeding locality of the true megarhynca is unknown, the 

 specimens being all winter examples from southern California. The 

 Warner Mountain bird is named fulva (p. 162) and that breeding in the 

 White Mountains, canescens (p. 163). — W. S. 



Annual Report of the State Ornithologist of Massachusetts. — 



Mr. E. H. Forbush's last report 1 contains some novel features besides the 

 usual account of activities in the interest of bird protection. There is a 

 list of collections of mounted birds and skins in Massachusetts with the 

 hours and conditions under which they may be consulted, a most valuable 

 piece of information. These collections number no less than forty-eight. 



A census of the Heath Hens on Martha's Vineyard showed 155 birds 

 present, an increase of forty per cent over the year before, while a number 

 of interesting photographs of this bird in its mating dance form a frontis- 

 piece to the report. Mr. Forbush has also issued an excellent circular on 

 " Food, Feeding and Drinking Appliances and Nesting Materials to Attract 

 Birds " 2 which contains more information in a small space and conveniently 

 arranged than any similar publication that we recall. 



Noble on the Birds of Newfoundland. 3 — Mr. Noble spent a portion 

 of the summer of 1915 collecting specimens in Newfoundland in the interests 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and presents notes on 61 species. 

 Special permission is required to collect in Newfoundland and a definite 

 limit placed on the number of specimens of each species secured. 



Mr. Noble ascertained that Newfoundland was evidently a region in 

 which a dark coloration was beginning to develop in nesting species and 

 he endorses the various recently described races from this country, but 

 regards Howe's Hylocichla fuscescens fuliginosa as indistinguishable from 

 the western salicicola. 



An analysis of the avifauna shows thirteen species in Newfoundland 

 which are unknown in Labrador, and twenty which occur in Labrador but 

 not in Newfoundland, while six others are common in Newfoundland and 

 rare in Labrador. — W. S. 



Chubb on New South American Birds. 4 — In the January number of 



1 Eleventh Annual Report of the State Ornithologist. By Edward Howe Forbush. For 

 the Year 1918. From the Annual Report of the State Department of Agriculture. Decem- 

 ber 20, 1918, pp. 1-21. 



2 Circular 2, Mass. State Department of Agriculture, pp. 1-31, September. 1918. 



3 Notes on the Avifauna of Newfoundland. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. LXII, No. 14, 

 pp. 543-568. 



4 Notes on Collections of Birds in the British Museum, from Ecuador. Peru, Bolivia, and 

 Argentina. Part I. Tinarnidae — Rallidae. By Charles Chubb. The Ibis, January, 

 1919, pp. 1-55. 



