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examined by Allan H. Jennings on New Providence were distended with 

 mosquitos. 1 The stomachs of a few warblers at the time were also full 

 of mosquitos. Other birds recorded as consumers of mosquitos are Wood 

 Pewee (M yiochanes virens) , Phcebe (Smjornis phoebe), and Kingbird (Tyran- 

 nus tyrannus). 2 — W. L. McA. 



Publications Received. — Allen, J. A. Collation of Brisson's 

 Genera of Birds with those of Linnaeus. (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXVIII, pp. 317-335, November 11, 1910.) 



Beck, Rollo Howard. Water Birds of the Vicinity of Point Pinos, 

 California. (Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, III, pp. 57-72, September 

 17, 1910.) 



Carriker, M. A., Jr. An Annotated List of the Birds of Costa Rica 

 including Cocos Island. (Ann. Carnegie Mus., VI, pp. 314-915, and map, 

 August 29, 1910.) 



Cooke, Wells W. Distribution and Migration of North American 

 Shorebirds. U. S. Dept. Agric, Biological Survey, Bull. No. 35, October 

 6, 1910. 



Ferry, John Farwell. Catalogue of a Collection of Birds from Costa 

 Rica. (Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Publ. 146, Orn. Ser., I, No. 6, pp. 257- 

 282, September, 1910.) 



[Forbush, Edward H.] Annual Report of the State Ornithologist [of 

 Massachusetts]. Reprinted and repaged from Fifty-seventh Ann. Rep. 

 Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, without name of author.] 



Gladstone, Hugh S. The Birds of Dumfriesshire. 8vo, pp. xcix + 

 482, 24 half-tone pll. and map. London, Witherby & Co., 1910. 25s. net. 



Grinnell, George Bird. American Game Bird Shooting. 8vo, pp. 

 xviii + 538, with 48 full-page pll. and many text cuts. New York, 

 Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1910. $2.50 net ; postage 25 cents. 



Gunning, J. W. B., and Alwin Haagner. A Check-List of the Birds 

 of South Africa. (Ann. Transvaal Mus., II, July, 1910, suppl., pp. 84.) 



Hartert, Ernst. Notes on Various Species of British Birds. (British 

 Birds, IV, No. 5, Oct., 1910, pp. 129-136.) 



Jacobs, J. Warren. Second Supplement to Gleanings No. 5. 8vo, pp. 

 95, illustrated. 



Matthews, Gregory M. The Birds of Australia. Vol. I, Part 1, 

 October 31, 1910. Roy. 4to. London, Witherby & Co. £2 2s. net per Part, 



Osborn, Henry Fairfield. A Naturalist in the Bahamas: Memorial 

 Volume of John I. Northrop. 8vo, Macmillan Co., 66 Fifth Ave., New 

 York. $2.50 net. 



Reiser, O. Liste der Vogelarten welche auf der von der Kaiserl. 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften 1903 nach Nordostbrasilien entsenden 

 Expedition unter Leitung des Herrn Hofrates Dr. F. Steindachner gesam- 



i Proc. Ent Soc. Wash., X. 1908, p. 61-02. 

 2 Forbush. loc. cit., pp. 232, 235 and 238. 



