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chief, Mr. Henry W. Henshaw, issued a pamphlet containing colored pic- 

 tures from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes of fifty of the common birds 

 of the United States. The supply was almost immediately exhausted and 

 in order to extend the educational influence of the pamphlet the National 

 Geographic Magazine republished it in the issue for June, 1913. The 

 same journal now presents 64 additional colored pictures, also reproduced 

 from Fuertes' paintings illustrating practically all of our familiar birds not 

 included in the earher pubhcation. The text which accompanies them is 

 again by Mr. Henshaw. The educational value of these publications is 

 enormous and the National Geographic Magazine is to be congratulated 

 upon the good work that it has fostered in making familiar to thousands of 

 people the common wild birds of our country. We understand that a 

 hmited number of copies of these two articles as well as some other orni- 

 thological papers are to be bound and offered for sale by the pubhshers of 

 the journal. — W. S. 



The Ornithological Journals.' 



Bird-Lore. Vol. XVI. No. 2. March-April, 1914. 



The Electric Current in Bird Photography. By Guy A. Bailey. — 

 Telescopes and electric push bottons, in a window of the house, control 

 cameras mounted at feeding stations 100 to 800 ft. distant. Striking 

 photographs taken by the author's unique methods are shown. 



The Song of the Philadelphia Vireo. By Mrs. E. F. Miller. 



Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds. By Louis Agassiz Fuertes^ 

 — The third installment of this valuable contribution deals with Orioles, 

 Flycatchers, Finches and Thrushes, while the fourth in the May- June 

 issue takes up the Ant Thrushes and Woodhewers, birds peculiar to tropical 

 America, and of whose habits we know very httle. Both Mr. Fuertes' 

 drawings and descriptions of these species are particularly interesting and 

 instructive. 



Some Ways of the Oregon Towhee. By Mrs. Stephen E. Thayer. 



North American Sparrows — The Purple Finches — Migration by 

 W. W. Cooke, plumages by F. M. Chapman and color plate by L. A. 

 Fuertes. 



Educational Leaflet No. 73 treats of the Whip-poor-will. 



Bird-Lore. Vol. XVI. No. 3. May-June, 1914. 



The Nighthawk in Connecticut. By L. F. Hall and W. I. Smith. 



Migration of N. A. Sparrows. — Genera Peucoea and Amiophila. Color 

 plate by Fuertes. 



A Cooperative Study of Bird Migration. — A call for records of arrival 

 of the Red-wing Blackbird, Robin and Phoebe brought 57 returns which 

 have been carefully tabulated by Mr. Chas. H. Rogers. 



> The names of the editor and publisher of each journal will be found In the 

 January number of 'The Auk." 



