N " 1 I ,,^. XN I lu,-,nt literature. L39 



The Oologist. Vol XXIX, No. 8, September 15, L912 



a Preliminary Lilt of the Water Birds of the Middle Delaware Valley. 

 ii\ R, F Miller \n unfortunate and misleading compilation, though pre- 

 lented aa it' original [noluding a aumber of Bpeciea of whioh there is no 

 reoord for this region. 



The Oologist. Vol. WIN. No. LO, Ootober 15, 1912 



Pennsylvania and Now Jersey Meeting Dates for 1912. By R. C. 

 Harlot 



Rails. By \\ . IS. Saunders Disousses their calls. 



Summer Residents of Rutherford Co., N C. Bj C F Moore. 



The Pine Siskin, ByB B.Simpson Nesting in Pennsylvania, 



\n Orange County [Fls I Wood [bis Rookery. By D. ,i Nicholson. 



Thelhis. [X Series. Vol. VI, No. 24. Ootober, 1912. 



The Birds of Gran Canaria. Bj David A. Bannerman, The island 

 is divided im o si\ more or less distinct areas the physioal features and 

 binl life of which are disoussed, followed by an annotated list of the 8 1 spe- 

 cies known from the island. There is a good map, some admirable half- 

 tones showing the oharaoter of Ihe country and a oolored plate of Fringilla 

 tii/dm polaUeki. 



Notes i'ii LicmetM paatxnator By Thomas Carter, V" exoellenl ao- 

 oountof the habits of this interesting Cookatoo whioh has been rapidly 

 decreasing in numbers. It is verj destructive to wheat. On a strip 200 

 l>\ 30 yards the entire crop was pulled down and trampled Ba1 by the 

 birds. 



Remarks on the Stomaoh-oontents of Hints. Bj C. F. M. Swynnerton. 



While Btomaoh contents showed but verj few oases of birds devouring 

 butterflies, aotual observation direoted especially to this question greatly 

 Increased the number Wings and often the head as well were rejected 

 which greatly inoreased the difficulty of detecting the presence of butter- 

 flies in i he stomach. 



The Progress and Condition of the (J. S. National Museum. (From 

 Annual Report ). 



Further Notes on the Birds of the island of Formosa. By W. R, * >gilvie« 

 Grant Based on die collection made by Mr. \N alter ( loodfelkm in Jan- 

 uary 1912. Pyrrhvla orisantca, and lanthia goodfellowi are described as 

 new, die latter being figured iii colors as well as Dicctum formosum and 

 PortM ni> r pHlosw. 



On the Immature Dress of Atwer indicus and Dendrocycna arborea, 

 \u F. E. Blaauw. 



The Shoe-bill in the Regent's Park. By P. I,. S. With an illustra 

 t ion of one of those living in the Gisa Zoological Gardens 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Cluh, CLXXXI I >i 

 llartert describes as new /'//////< rgotes CUCullatua Ixiljuiiciisis, Bat j an, North- 

 ern Moluccas; Stoparola panayensia obiensis, oi>i Major; Cossypha som 

 treni, Kampala, Uganda. 



Mr. Erwin Stresemana who had been on ihesecoml ' Freiburger Moluk- 



