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Hersey and Rockwell on the Birds of the Barr Lake District, Colorado. 1 — 

 The Barr Lake District, Adams County, Colorado, as here defined is ''a 

 circular area fifteen miles in diameter, with the station of Barr as a center." 

 The area is thus practically the same as that treated by A. H. Felger in a 

 previous number of this journal (antea, pp. 272-291, with maps, which see), 

 but while Felger's paper includes only the water birds, the present article 

 gives a list of all of the birds (205 species) positively identified as occurring 

 there, and omits "a number of species that without reasonable doubt occur 

 there, because of lack of absolute identification." Felger included many 

 of the species (distinguished by enclosure in brackets) likely to occur, with 

 records of their capture at nearby localities. The present list contains a 

 number of species of water birds not given by Felger as actually taken in 

 the Barr Lake district, their known occurrence resting, in some cases, 

 apparently on the hitherto unpublished records of Mr. Hersey, and in 

 other cases the species are given merely as rare migrants, without further 

 comment. All but one are included in the bracketed portions of the 

 Felger list. The two lists taken together, so far as the aquatic birds are 

 concerned, seem to give the fullest information possible for the Barr Lake 

 district to date. The two papers are exactly synchronous, the "advance 

 print" of the Hersey-Rockwell paper bearing the date on which the July 

 issue of this journal was mailed. 



The list of the Barr Lake district land birds numbers about 130 species, 

 and is the first full list of these birds thus far published for this limited area. 

 Half-tone figures in the text, from photographs by the authors, illustrate 

 the nests and eggs of six species of Barr Lake breeding birds. In the 

 present paper dates of occurrence are rarely given, nor are there many 

 references to previous records, but " a table of dates of migration" for the 

 Barr Lake district is promised as a supplemental publication to the present 

 'List.' — J. A. A. 



McGregor on Birds from Northern Mindanao. 2 — This is a report on a 

 collection made by Mr. Andres Celestino in northern Mindanao during the 

 months of October, November and December, 1907, and numbers 106 

 species, briefly annotated. Six of them are here recorded for the first 

 time from Mindanao, and the capture of another confirms a previous 

 doubtful record of its occurrence in the island. — J. A. A. 



McGregor on Philippine Ornithological Literature. 3 — This instalment 



1 An Annotated List of the Birds of the Barr Lake District, Adams County, Colo- 

 rado. By L. J. Hersey and Robert B. Rockwell. Proceedings of the Colorado 

 Biological Society, Vol. I, No. 3, June 28, 1909. "Advance Print, from The Condor, 

 Vol. XI, No. 4 [pp. 109-122]. Issued June 28, 1909." 



2 A Collection of Birds from Northern Mindanao. By Richard C. McGregor. The 

 Philippine Journal of Science, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1909, pp. 67-77. 



3 Philippine Ornithological Literature, II. By Richard C. McGregor. The Philip- 

 pine Journal of Science, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1909, pp. 79-86. 



