

138 Recent Literature. Lv'uk 



The Ornithological Journals. 



Bird Lore. Vol. XLW, No. 5. September October, 1912. 



Phoebe vs Catbird. - A Study in Adaptability. By A. A. Allen. 



The Story of Peter, a Purple Martin. By Fanny Hardy Eckstortn. 



The Migration of N. A. Sparrows. By \V. W. Cooke. — Towhees. 

 Colorplates by Fuertesand Notes on Plumages by Chapman. 



The California Quail and White- and Red-breasted Nuthatches furnish 

 the subjects for the Educational Leaflets, with colorplates by Allan Brooks 

 ami R. T, Brasher. 



Bird Lore. Vol. XIV., No. 6. November December, 1912, 



The Magpies of Culebra Creek [Colorado]. By E. R. Warren. 



Our Winter Guests. By Bliia F. Miller. — In Vermont. 



A Rustic Pood-House. By Frederic 11 ECennard. 



Gull Pensioners. By E. L. Moseley. At Sandusky Bay, Ohio. Striking 

 photographs by E. Niebergall. 



Tame Wild Turkeys. By W. T. Davis. In south Florida. 



The Migration of N. A.. Sparrows. By \\ W.Cooke.- Tine Grosbeak. 

 Color plate by Kuertes and plumage notes by Chapman. 



The Chickadee by E. H. Forbush and the Willow Ptarmigan by Joseph 

 Grinnell are the Educational Leaflets. 



Annual Report oi the National Association ofAudubon Soeieties for 1912. 



The Condor. Vol XIV, No 5 September-October, 1912. 



The Discovery d the Nest and Eggs of the California Tine Grosbeak. 

 By Milton S. Ray.— A very interesting and well illustrated account of a 

 trip into the high Sierras. 



Notes from Todos Santos Islands. By \ B. Howell. -Annotations 

 on 32 speeies. 



Some Birds of the Saw-tooth Mountains. Idaho By Stanley G Jewett. 

 — 35 speeies. 



The Wilson Bulletin No. 80 September, 1912 



\ March Bird List from the Galoosahatehee River and Lake Okeechobee. 

 By Frank M. Phelps. — Annotated list of 93 speeies; illustrations from 

 photographs by 0. E. Baynard. 



Some Additions to a List of the Winter Birds o( Southeastern Michigan. 

 Pt. HI. By B. H. Swales.— IS additional speeies. 



Why Birds are so named. By Katie M. Roads (continued from previous 

 number). This paper, intended to be instructive, is on the contrary ex- 

 ceedingly misleading and contains numerous errors. The author of the 

 technical name is cited as authority for the Knglish name which he fre- 

 quently is not, while many of the sentences in quotation marks are not 

 quotations at all. Little attempt has been made to search out the full 

 names o\ persons after whom birds have been named. This leaves the un- 

 informed reader in much doubt in the case o( species named 'uncnsendi ' 

 where two different men have been honored 



A Study of the Avifauna of the Lake Erie Island By Lynda Jones — 

 The Birds of lYlee Island, 65 species listed 



