Vol 'i9i9 XVI ] Recent Literature. 617 



Ornithological Articles in Other Journals. 



Brigham, Edward M. The Hoactzin — Only Survivor of an Ancient 

 Order of Four-footed Birds. (Natural History, XIX, February, 1919.) — 

 An account of the discovery of the quadrupedal nature of the young by the 

 discoverer. 



Evans, William. The Great Crested Grebe in Forth. (The Scottish 

 Naturalist March-April, 1919.) 



Evans, William. Woodcock and the Safety of their Young. (Ibid.) 



Baxter, Evelyn V. and Rintoul, L. J. On the Great Crested Grebe 

 as a Scottish Breeding Species. (Ibid., May- June, 1919.) 



Rintoul, Leonora J. and Baxter, Evelyn V. Report on Scottish Orni- 

 thology in 1918. (Ibid. July-August, 1919.) 



O'Donoghue, C. H. and Gowanlock, J. Nelson. Notes on the Caspian 

 Tern (Sterna caspia) and the Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus) 

 in Manitoba. (Canadian Field-Naturalist, April, 1919.) — A number of 

 other species are also listed. 



Taverner, P. A. The Birds of Shoal Lake. Manitoba. (Ibid.) — 

 Continued from The Ottawa Naturalist, XXXII, p. 164. 



Farley, F. L. The White Pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, in Alberta. 

 (Ibid., May, 1919). 



Hornaday, W. T. Beebe's Great Pheasant Monograph. (N. Y. Zoo- 

 logical Society Bulletin. January, 1919.) 



H[ornaday], W. T. Bird Notes from South America. The Truth 

 about Gathering Egret Plumes in Venezuela, Slaughter of the Condors, and 

 Insect Pests Follow Bird Slaughter. (Ibid.) — Extracts from Leo E. 

 Miller's ' In the Wilds of South America.' 



Crandall, Lee S. Rare Birds in the Zoological Park. (Ibid.) — Emus, 

 LIpland Geese, etc. 



Shufeldt, R. W. The Osteology of the Giant Gallinule of the Philip- 

 pines, Porphyria pulverulentus Temminck. With notes on the Osteology 

 of Tachybaptus philippensis (Bonnaterre) and H ydrophasianus chirargus 

 (Scopoli). (Philipp. Jour, of Sci., January, 1919.) 



C[ulin], Sftewart]. Japanese Color Prints Illustrating Samuel Smiles' 

 Self Help. (Brooklyn Museum Quarterly, April, 1919.). — This work was 

 translated into Japanese in 1878 under the title ' The Western Countries ' 

 Book of Successful Careers.' Audubon's was one of these and the illustra- 

 tion which accompanied the sketch is reproduced here. It represents the 

 ornithologist on his knees opening the box in which were his drawings that 

 had been destroyed by rats. It adds one more to the list of portraits 

 given by Prof. Herrick. 



Nichols, J. T. Notes and Habits of Shore Birds. (Bulletin of the 

 American Game Protective Association, April, 1919.) — An excellent 

 account of some of the commoner species. 



Cole, L. J. and Lippincott, W. A. The Relation of Plumage to Ovarian 



