2i2iA: Recent Literature. [April 



Dennis, D. W. Why do our Birds Migrate. (Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 

 1914, pp. 145-148.) The author considers that birds building protected 

 nests or wliich are able to protect them do not migrate, and that the others 

 migrate in search of safety in nesting! Some of his hsted migrants are 

 however resident over a large part of their range. 



Culbertson, Glenn. A Note on a Pecuhar Nesting Site of the Chimney 

 Swift. (Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 1914, p. 279.) — In an old dry well. 



Beebe, C. William. A Tetrapteryx Stage in the Ancestry of Birds. 

 (Zoologica II, No. 2, pp. 39-52.) — Finds well developed quills on leg of 

 young dove just behind the femur, considered to be remains of ' posterior 

 wing.' 



Lashley, K. S. The Color- Vision of Birds. I. The Spectrum of the 

 Domestic Fowl. (Jom-. Anim. Behavior, VI, No. 1, pp. 1-26.) Finds 

 that the fowl is sensitive to difference of wave length in light, irrespective 

 of intensity. 



Levick, G. M. Natural History of the Adelie Penguin. (Brit. Ant- 

 arctic Exped., 1910, Zool. 1, No. 2, pp. 55-84.) — The same material, in a 

 general way, as is embodied in his recent book upon the penguins. 



Moulton, J. C. An Account of the Various Expeditions to Mt. Kina- 

 balu, British North Borneo. (Sarawak Mus. Jour. II, pt. II, No. 6, pp. 

 137-176.) — Contains list of ornithological papers. 



Lewis, Frederick. List of Birds Observed in the Vedda Country during 

 July, 1914. (Spolia Zeylanica X, pp. 158-165.) — 129 species of Ceylon 

 birds. 



Coward, T. A. A Note on the Behavior of a Blackbird. — A Problem 

 in Mental Development. (Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Philos. 

 Soc, 1914, pp. 1-8.) — The bird returned again and again to combat its 

 own image in a window. It seemed to remember the spot where its antag- 

 onist was to be found but did not profit by the experience of continual 

 failure to reach it. 



Alvarado, Rodolfo. Los Cohbries Mexicanos. (Bolet. Dirrec. Estad. 

 Biolog. Mex. I, No. 2, pp. 45-95.) — A compiled resume with descriptions 

 from specimens. 



Publications Received. — Chapin, James P. P'our New Birds from 

 the Belgian Congo. (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXV, Art. Ill, 

 pp. 23-29, February 21, 1916.) 



Chapman, Frank M. Diagnoses of Apparently New Colombian Birds. 

 IV. (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIV, Art. XXIII, pp. 635-662, 

 December 30, 1915.) 



Coale, Hem-y K. Birds of Lake County [Illinois.] [History of Lake 

 County, 1912.] (Chapter XIV, pp. 353-370.) 



Didier, Dr. Robert. La Macareux da Kamtschatka. Supplement au 

 No. 82 de la ' Revue Francaise d'Ornith.,' 1916, pp. 1-16. 



Grinnell, Joseph. Method of Caring for Study Skins of Birds. (Proc. 

 Amer. Asso. Museums, Vol. IX, 1915, pp. 106-111.) 



