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with a number of excellent, photographs of the young ducks and snapshots 

 of flocks of old birds on the wing. This is Mr. Job's second experiment in 

 securing young wild ducks, the previous summer having been spent at Lake 

 Manitoba when about 100 young, of the later breeding species, were ob- 

 tained, although he was then too late for the Canvasbacks. The further 

 experiments of the author in rearing these birds will be watched with inter- 

 est and all bird-lovers and sportsmen will join in his hope " that they may 

 duly multiply and help to replenish the earth in our eastern districts so 

 woefully lacking in these splendid wild fowl." — W. S. 



Mearns on Additional New Birds from Africa.^ — Dr. Mearns' 

 latest contribution to African ornithology consists of the description of ten 

 new subspecies contained in the several collections recently added to the 

 U. S. National Museum collection. These are Pogonocichla cucullata 

 helleri, Mt. Mbololo; Cossypha natalensis garguensis, Mt. Gargues; C 

 natalensis intensa, Taveta; Bradypterus habceculus f rater cuius, Escarpment; 

 Sylvietta leucophrys keniensis, Mt. Kenia; S. brachyura tavetensis, Taveta; 

 Zosterops senegalensis fricki, Thika River; and Z. virens garguensis, Mt. 

 Gargues, all in British East Africa; while from Abyssinia are described 

 Sylvietta whytii abayensis, GarduUa; and Melamparus afer fricki, Dire 

 Daoua.— W. S. 



Grinnell's 'Second List of Birds of the Berkeley Campus.' 2_ 



Intensive studies like the present are always interesting especially to those 

 interested in keeping records of bird migration and fluctuation from day to 

 day. After all, the list of birds from the farm, the college campus, or the 

 city yard is only the county or state list on a small scale. 



The campus of the University of California comprises 530 acres and is 

 fortunate in including some truly wild. land and considerable diversity of 

 environment. Mr. Grinnell's Ust now numbers 97 species, while the mean 

 population in individuals is approximately 8,000. The usual number 

 of species seen per day is remarkably constant as shown by the following: 

 July 3, 29 species; February 11, 26; March 25, 22; January 20, 20; Oc- 

 tober 18, 27.— W. S. 



Baker's 'Indian Pigeons and Doves.' ^ — This is another sumptuous 

 work similar in all respects to the same author's ' Indian Ducks.' The 



> Descriptions of Ten New African Birds of the Genera Pogonocichla, Cossypha, 

 Bradyptems, Sylvritta, Melanipanis and Zosterops. By Edgar A. Mearns. 

 Smithson. Misc. Collns., Vol. 61, Number 20, pp. 1-8. Nov. 29, 191.3. 



* A Second List of the Birds of the Berkeley Campus. The Condor, XX. Janu- 

 ary, 1914, pp. 28-40. 



' Indian Pigeons 1 and | Doves | By I E. C. Stuart Baker 1 F. Z. S., F. L. S., 

 M. B. O. U. I Author of "Indian Ducks and their Allies" | with twenty-seven 

 coloured plates from drawings by 1 H. Gronvold and G. E. Lodge | Witherby & Co.| 

 326 High Holborn, London | 1913. roy. 8vo. pp. i-xv + 1-260, 26 plates. 

 £2 10s. net. 



