328 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



their nest. They arrive from the south in April, and some 

 interesting details of their life-history are given in a short 

 paper accompanying the photograph. In another article 

 lie describes the White Pelicans Avhicii also breed in the 

 Yellowstone, but in this case the nests are found together 

 with those of the California Gull (Larus californicus) on 

 two small flat islands at the southern end of Yellowstone 

 Lake. 



Other articles of interest iu the present volume are by 

 Mrs. Bailey on the birds of the humid coast region of 

 Oregon, by Mr. H. J. Rust on the birds of Idaho, by 

 Messrs. H. E. Hansen and W. A. Squires on the birds 

 o£ San Francisco country, where great changes have taken 

 place owing to the growth of the city of San Francisco, 

 which now numbers half a million people. 



Mention of several more papers which have been received 

 as ''separates'^ have already been made in previous numbers 

 of ' The Ibis.' 



hish Naturalist. 



[The Irish Naturalist. Vol. xxvi. nos. 1-12, 1917.J 



The 'Irish Naturalist' for last year contains comparatively 

 few articles of interest to ornithologists. There seems to 

 be a lack of Irish naturalists interi sted in birds, and a some- 

 what sarcastic essay by Mr. R. Southern on " The State of 

 Ireland " seems to confirm this. 



Turning now gratefully to what there is of interest to 

 bird-lovers in the pages of our contemporary, we have a 

 good article by Mr. C. B. Moffat on the efi'ect of the cold 

 winter of 1916-17, and especially of a great snowstorm on 

 26 January, 1917, on bird-life in Wexford. This stoim 

 appears to have fallen most heavily on a diagonal belt 

 across Ireland from riorth-west to south-east from Co, Mayo 

 to Co. Waterford, and in Co. Wexford the depth of snow 

 was over fifteen inches. Mr. Moft'at believes that so far as 

 his county was concerned the Stonechat, Gold-crested Wren, 

 Long-tailed Tit, Grey Wagtail, and Meadow-Pipit were 

 exterminated, while the Song-Thrush was much reduced in 



