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Chisolm, C. Winter Record for Anhinga in S.Carolina, (do., Vol. X, 

 No. 5, May, 1914.) 



Miller, W. DeW. Importation of Birds. (Amer. Mus. Journal, Vol. 

 XIV, No. 2, February, 1914.) — At port of New York. 



Baynes, E. H. What One Village is Doing for the Birds. (Amer. 

 Mus. Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 4, April, 1914.) — Meriden, N. H. 



Clarke, Wm. Eagle. On Some Migratory Birds Observed at Fair Isle 

 during the Spring and Autumn of 1913. (The Scottish Naturalist, No. 27, 

 March, 1914.) 



Brock, S. E. The Display of the Mallard in Relation to Pairing. (The 

 Scottish Naturahst, No. 28, April, 1914.) 



Baxter, Evelyn V. and Rintoul, Leonora, J. Bird Notes from the Isle 

 of May in 1913. (The Scottish Naturahst, No. 29, May, 1914.) 



Panton, H. Relationships of Species (continued). (The Zoologist, 

 No. 873, March 15, 1914.) 



Gurney, J. H. Ornithological Report for Norfolk, 1913. (The Zool- 

 ogist, No. 875, May 15, 1914). 



Grinnell, Joseph. Barriers to Distribution as Regards Birds and Mam- 

 mals. (American Nat., XLVIII, April, 1914.) 



Clark, Austin H. A New Race of the Mandarin Duck from Southern 

 Japan. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXVII, May 11, 1914.)— Aia; 

 galericidata briinnescens (p. 87) from Island of Kiusiu. 



Riley, J. H. Note on Anas cristata Gmelin. (do.. May, 1914.) — New 

 genus Lophonetta (p. 100) proposed for it. 



Oberholser, H. C. Pooecetes gramineus confinis in Louisiana, (do., 

 May, 1914.) 



Grinnell, Joseph. A New Red-winged Blackbird from the Great Basin, 

 (do., May, 1914.) — Agelaius phoeniceus nevadensis (p. 107), from Quinn 

 River Crossing, Humboldt Co., Nevada. 



Butler, Jefferson. Notes on the Mortality of the Young of Wild Birds. 

 Under Natural Nesting Conditions and Under Ai'tificial or Protected 

 States. (15th Ann. Rept. Michigan Acad. Sci., 1913.) — Data show great 

 mortahty in nesting under natural conditions and apparently a great 

 saving by the installation of nest boxes. 



Cotton, J. D. The Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighborhood. 

 (Journ. Northants Nat. Hist. Soc. and Field Club, XVII, No. 133, 1913.) 



Pellett, F. C. Nest Boxes for Woodpeckers. (Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., 

 XX, 1913.) 



Berninghansen, F. Helpful and Harmful Iowa Birds, (do.) 



Gabrielson, Ira N. A Further Study of the Home Life of the Brown 

 Thrasher, Toxostoma rufum Linn, (do.) 



Brother Alphonsus. Migration of Our Birds in the Spring of 1913. 

 (Amer. Midland Nat., Ill, 1914.) — At Notre Dame, Indiana. 



Seligmann, C. G. and Shattuck, S. G. Observations made to ascertain 

 whether any Relation subsists between the Seasonal Assumption of the 

 " Echpse " Plumage in the Mallard {Anas boschas) and the function of the 



