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Gymna io lawrencel ei ul and Agelaiu iihnigei from the I le r <f Pil 

 Reguloitli pulchei vegelu i di icribed a new from z m, 



■ ,1 China 1 ■■■ hile 'I" Green Heron of the Maid tned Buloridt 



albidulu. W. 8. 



Zimmer's "Birds of the Thorn;):: County Forest Reserve." I be 

 i • •- 1< .1 1 covered bj thi paper compri i tin I Go ernmenl I oi 



i:< ervc in Thoma County, Nebi vhich Mr. Zimmer and other 



ornithologi ' have given much attention Then ented 



in i .in ecological cla ification of the several ' habital ', the andhills 

 being regarded a I pper Sonoran while the Prairie i Carolinian. Theb 

 oharacteri tic ol each region are mentioned followed by a fully annotated 

 li i of 142 pecii While the nomenclature follows the A. I List in the 

 main we note that the po i 'II pei onal name i dropped 



the trinomial from the 'typical' race except where another form of the 

 peci< occui Hi the area undei con [deration, the latter a rather 

 incon i I'M practice Thi however in no wa) detract from the value 

 of the paper which i a well conceived and well presented contribution to 

 the ornithology of an interi ting region W. 8. 



California Economic Ornithology In Game Bulletin No, 1 (1913) 



of the California Fi h and Game Commi io reprinted Mr. U. C. 



paper on " The pre enf and future statue ol the ( lalifornia Valley 



Quial." The bulletin also contain di Bryant' report on hie " Investi- 



on of the Economic Statu of Non-Game Bird " Thia article desci 

 the purpo es and method of the inve tigation, and briefly reports on the 

 economic tatu ol the We tern Meadowlark, Blackbird , and the 1/ 

 \\ oodpa I 



Mi-. Bryant's final report on "The Economic Value of the Wi tern 

 Meadowlark in California " appear a Bulletin 236 of the State Agricul- 

 tural Experimenl Station. The percentages of animal and vegetable food 

 for the .'.li are reported a approximately 60 and 10. 'I In- writer con- 

 cludesthal thebalanci i certain!} infavorol the Meadowlark, W. I. M. 



Four Economic Papers hy ProfeBSor W. E. Collinge The Bull- 

 finch ' I'iji i liuin europcea il reputation a a d< troyei of bud of 

 fruil tree , and Prof( oi Collinge confirms thi opinion by the r< 

 of examination of the stomache of 308 of these bird He find thai "dur- 

 ing the five month , Januarj toMay, th< food con ly of fruit-buds 



■ w Warbler from We tern China. By Outram Bang . Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 ,\ XVI, pp 9 • 3 L913 



i Heron of the Maldlvi Bj ■ * hitram Bang i, Proc Biol 

 XXVI, pp, 93 94, Maj 3, 1913. 



Bird* "i the Thomai Countj Por< I R< • n By .John T. Zlnuner. Proc. 

 Nebraska Ornitta i nlon, v*ol V, Part 6 April i i, 1913. pp. 51 -104, 



