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formed permanent settlement here." "Taken all together, the bird life of 

 Point Pelee, the islands adjoining and the opposite American shore forms 

 a subject of absorbing interest and ground where migrational phenomena 

 of the Great Lakes can perhaps be studied to better advantage than any- 

 where else in this section." 



In an introduction of about ten pages the location and the physical and 

 biotic conditions of the locality are described in detail, following which is 

 an extensively annotated list of 209 species positively identified as occur- 

 ring in this limited area. Supplemental notes follow, with comment on 

 hypothetical migration routes. 



The list is based on the combined "Notes of the members of the Great 

 Lakes Ornithological Club, a small organization formed for the purpose of 

 cooperation and intensive study of the birds of the Great Lakes Region," 

 the observers particularly mentioned including, besides the authors, 

 W. E. Saunders, J. H. Fleming, A. B. Klugh, J. E. Keays, and others. — 

 J. A. A. 



Rockwell on the Birds of Mesa County, Colorado. 1 — This carefully 

 compiled list ' "includes 203 species, 159 of which have been definitely 

 recorded for Mesa County, while the remaining 44 species .... will probably 

 be reported from there in the future." They are wide-ranging species, 

 included on the basis of their known occurrence in contiguous districts, 

 and are distinguished by being printed in smaller type than the others. 

 The list is based primarily on the author's knowledge of the birds of the 

 county gained during a residence there of two entire years and portions 

 of six others, his observations being supplemented by information con- 

 tributed by a considerable number of other observers, as duly accredited 

 in the list. The list is offered as a "purely preliminary" one, but forms 

 a very substantial basis for future additions. The nomenclature is only 

 in part brought down to the basis of A. O. U. Fourteenth Supplement, 

 which possibly was not available at the time the list went to press. — J. J. A. 



Bryan on the Birds of Molokai. 2 — This paper is the outcome of a collect- 

 ing trip in the mountains of Molokai, Hawaiian Islands, during two months 

 in 1907 (April 15-June 15), for the purpose of obtaining material for the 

 Bishop Museum. One of the primary objects of the expedition was to 

 secure specimens of the Hoa or Black Mamo (Drepanorhamphus funereus) , 

 the search for which proved successful, three specimens being obtained, 

 although it has of late been supposed to be extinct. There is also a long 



1 An Annotated List of the Birds of Mesa County, Colorado. By Robert B. 

 Rockwell. The Condor, Vol. X, No. 4, July-August, 1908, pp. 152-180, 2 maps, and 

 9 half-tone illustrations. 



2 Some Birds of Molokai. By Wm. Alanson Bryan, formerly Curator of Ornithol- 

 ogy and Taxidermist in the Bishop Museum. Occas. Papers of the B. P. Bishop 

 Museum, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1908, pp. 43-86, with a map and 7 half-tone full-page 

 illustrations. 



