444 Recent Literature. [July 



Waite, Edgar R. Feeding Habits of Nestling Bee-eaters (Nature, 

 March 6, 1919.) — In a Papuan species the young are said to defecate in 

 the tunnel. Flies are attracted and their eggs hatched in the mass develop 

 larva 1 upon which the young feed. 



Hilden, Aremas and Stenb'ach, K. S. On our knowledge of the Daily 

 Fluctuation in the Body Temperature in Birds. (Skandinav. Archiv. fur 

 Physiologie, XXXV ; pp. 382-413. 1916.) 



Publications Received. — Alabama Bird Day Book, 1919. Issued 

 by the Department of Game and Fish. John H. Wallace, Commissioner. 

 Miss Sophia Watts, Secretary. 



Allen, Arthur A. (1) The Plovers. (American Forestry, February, 

 1919.) (2) The Waterfowl. {Ibid., March, 1919.) 



Bailey, Vernon, and Bailey, Florence Merriam. Wild Animals of 

 Glacier National Park. Department of the Interior, National Park Ser- 

 vice, 1918, pp. 1-210. Numerous halftone illustrations and map. Price 

 50 cents from Supt. of Documents, Govt. Printing Office, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Ball, Alice E. A Year with the Birds. Illustrated by Robert Bruce 

 Horsfall, 57 Colored Plates. Svo. pp. 1-191, Dodd, Mead and Co., New 

 York City, 1918. $3.00 net, 



Forbush, E. H. (1) Eleventh Annual Report of the State Ornithologist 

 for the Year 1918. Mass. State Department of Agriculture, 1919. (2) 

 Food, Feeding and Drinking Appliances and Nesting Material to Attract 

 Birds. State Department of Agriculture, Circular No. 2, 1918, pp. 1-31. 



Chubb, Charles. (1) Notes on Collections of Birds in the British 

 Museum, from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Part I. Tina- 

 midae — Rallida?. (The Ibis, January, 1919.) (2) Descriptions of new 

 Genera and a new Subspecies of South American Birds. (Ann. and Mag. 

 of Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, Vol. II, July, 1918.) (3) Notes on the Family Dendro- 

 colaptida?, with Suggestions for its Division. (Ibid., Vol. Ill, March, 

 1919.) 



Gilmore, Albert Field. Birds of Field, Forest and Park. With a 

 Foreword by T. Gilbert Pearson, with Illustrations by R. Bruce Horsfall 

 and Louis Fuertes. The Page Company, Boston, 1919. 8vo., pp. 1-318. 

 $2.50 net. 



Harris, Harry. Birds of the Kansas City Region. With an Introduc- 

 tion by Ralph Hoffmann. (Trans. Acad. Sciences of St. Louis, Vol. XXIII, 

 No. 8, pp. 213-371.) February 27, 1919. 



Lbnnberg, Einar. (1) Birds Collected in Eastern Congo by Captain 

 Elias Arrhenius. (Arkiv. for Zoologi K. Svenska. Vetenskapsakad., 

 Band 10, No. 24, 1917.) (2) Notes on Some Interesting East African 

 Birds. (Ibid., Band II, No. 5.) (3) Hybrid Gulls. (Ibid., Band 12, 

 No. 7, 1919.) 



Moseley, Edwin Lincoln. Trees, Stars and Birds. A Book of Outdoor 

 Science. Illustrated in Colors from Paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 



