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The Ornithological Journals. 



Bird Lore. Vol. XIV, No. 4. July-August, 1912. 



A list of Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Herbaceous Plants Native to New- 

 England, Bearing Fruit or Seeds Attractive to Birds. By F. H. Ivennard. 



Observations in a Laughing Gull Colony. By Francis Harper — At 

 Cobbs Island, Va. 



Some Nesting Habits of the Oregon Junco. By May R. Thayer. 



Red-headed Woodpecker at Camden, N. J. By JuMan K. Potter. 



The Yellow-headed Blackbird. By Thomas S. Roberts. Educational 

 Leaflet No. 57. 



The Condor. Vol. XIV, No. 4. July-August, 1912. 



Birds of the Cottonwood Groves [New Mexico]. By Florence Merriam 

 Bailey. 



\^. Notes on the Wading Birds of the Barr Lake Region, Colorado. By 

 Robert B. Rockwell. — With excellent photographs of nests. 



Present and Future Status of the CaUfornia Valley Quail. By H. C. 

 Bryant. 



A Journey to the Star Lake Country and other Notes from the Tahoe 

 Region. By Milton C Ray. 



The Present Status of the Colorado Check-List of Birds. By W. W. 

 Cooke. — A discussion of the species added by W. L. Sclater in his ' His- 

 tory of the Birds of Colorado ' and those rejected by him. 



Prof. Cooke considers that seven species should be rejected from Sclater's 

 hst while fifteen should be added upon the evidence here presented, making 

 the total number of species for the state 403. 



The Wilson Bulletin. No. 79. June, 1912. 



A Study of the Home Life of the Brown Thrasher, Toxostoma rufum. 

 By Ira N. Gabrielson. — The four young were tagged for identification and 

 775 feedings by the parents were recorded as to time, nature of food, and 

 individual fed, and sex of parent. The results are tabulated in various 

 ways and yield valuable results. 



A Study of the Avifauna of the Lake Erie Islands (continued). By 

 Lynds Jones. 



The Oologist. Vol. XXIX, No. 6. June 15, 1912. 



The Bewick's Wren [in southwestern Pennsylvania]. By S. S. Dickey 



The Oologist. Vol. XXIX, No. 7. July 15, 1912. 



Nesting of the Virginia and Sora Rails in Pennsylvania. By R. C. 

 Harlow. 



The Oologist. Vol. XXIX. No. 8. August 15, 1912. 



The American Bittern [about Buffalo, N. Y.] By Ottomar Reinecke. 



Breeding Birds of Marshall Co., 111. By R. M. Barnes. 



The Ibis. IX Series. Vol. VI, No. 23. July, 1912. 



On the Birds of Ngamiland. By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. With Itinerary 

 and Field-notes by R. B. Woosnam. — An interesting account of a journey 

 across the Kalahari desert to the Okavango marshes, Bechuanaland. The 



