/,'. cent hit* rat '!.) 1 



here foi •■ that a field which 



tudent of bird Jif«- 

 In another paper the tame authoi ling to 



drink :in<l concludes that thefii i drinking is an involuntary reflex act when 

 tli<- bill become* accidentally submerged and the inside of the moutb i.-i 

 moi tened The difference in the method of drinking in pigeons and 

 domi ■ mphasized. W 



Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen on Austrian Ornithological Literature 

 for 1911. A biblii out 400 titles, many of them local and 



popular, and many from journals nol r< le in America. The 



'fnllv prepared and form-, a valuable paper of reference while it 

 impresses one with the enormous amount of ornithological lit*-: I 

 that i- l><'iiii<; put forth in the world today, v. 



Mrs. Myers 'The Birds' Convention'- This^attractively printed 

 little boo! 'I to interest voting folk in birds .'mo! bird protection. 



I oi very little children a book of this sort, in which the birds are personified, 

 will no doubt prove attractive, but as they grow older boyi and girl 

 think, soon prefer something that i- no' quite <> obviously intended for the 

 young 'I'd'- half-tones with which the work is illustrated are excellent. — 



Grinnell on Conserving the Band-tailed Pigeon as a Game 

 Bird. Mr. Grinnell tr< of the distribution, food, nesting, 



economic -tutu- etc., of this valuable bird in California. He concludes 

 from the evidence collected thai though widely scattered in the breeding 

 in, in winter all the individuals inhabiting the Pacific i er in 



the valley* and foot hill- of west, central and southern California J' is 

 obviously 'luring the lal that the species i- in danger of - 



mination and Mr. Grinnell considers 'hat the decimation I o far 



that a cl'. the only way to brin^ the birds back 



to a 't will warrant an annual open Up to ! ' 



time the Band-tailed Pigeon ha- been left practically unprotected and its 



voung being reared by each pair bas 

 failed to keep pace with the winter slaughter, which in 1011 li was v<-.ry 

 hea\ 



> Oraithologtache Literatur Oaterreich Bo ;owtoa, 1911. 



Von Viktor Bitter von Tuc mldnoffen. Verl sool.-botan. 



rilj pp 260 289. 



m i; iliirri'-t Williams I illfbrnia 



Audubon — •.-. wiih in, the Author W< 



Publl • ' mi-' I'l- i -i 75 1 



'Tin- Outlook foi Co B ad-tailed Pi ■ 



i ' . 913 pp -"• ii 



