354 Recently published Ornitholoyicul Works. [Ibis^ 



write a special article protesting against the supposed 

 danger of "pauperizing bird-life/^ 



The present volume is illustrated with many beautiful 

 photographs/ and also with a series of coloured plates by 

 Mr. L. A. Fuertes of different groups of American birds. 

 Two of the numbers have a plate of Tanagers, the other four 

 illustrate the Cedar-birds and Waxwings^ the Shrikes, the 

 Horned Larks, and the Magpies, and each plate is accom- 

 panied by an article on the plumages of the birds by the 

 Editor, and one on the migrations b}'- Mr. Oberholser, 



For the past five years Mr. U. H. Beck has been collecting 

 and studying marine birds oft' the coasts of South America 

 for Messrs. Brewster and Sanford, and some fine photo- 

 graphs of bird-life in the Falkland Islands are reproduced 

 in the present volume. Other articles illustrated by photo- 

 graphs are by Mr. H. E. Tuttle on the nesting of the 

 Nasliville Warbler, and by Mr. C. W. Leister on the Black- 

 billed Cuckoo wiiich, it is hardly necessary to lemind our 

 readers, is not parasitic. 



One of the great features of ' Bird-Lore ' is its annual 

 Christmas Census. )i\ the help of numerous readers and- 

 contributors a count is taken throughout the States and 

 Canada of all the birds observed on Christmas day each 

 year. The results of the eighteenth of these combined 

 observations is contained in the Jan.-Febr. no. of ' Bird- 

 Lore,^ and occupies twenty-five pages. As showing the 

 genial clinuite of southern California, at Los Angeles no 

 fewer than 106 species were observed within a radius of 

 fifteen miles of the town. 



After the entrance of the United States into the war, 

 Mr. Frank Chapman, the Editor of ' Bird-Lore,' was ap- 

 pointed by the War Council at Washington to the post 

 of Red Cross (Jommissioner to South America, and on 

 3 October last he left the United States on an extended 

 journey through the South American Republics in the 

 interests of lied Cross work. The Nov.-Dec. no. contains 

 the first of what will doubtless prove to be a most interesting- 

 series of ornithological letters on his expedition. 



