356 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Jl)is, 



drawings from life by ^Irs. A. M. Cook, especially those of 

 Diamond Finches (Steganopleura guttata) and Spice-Finches 

 {Munia punctulata) . These are a relief from the eternal 

 photograph. 



The Condor. 



[The Condor. A Magazine of Western Ornithology. \o\. xx. 

 nos. 1-6, 1918. Published bi-monthly by the Cooper Ornithological . 

 Club, Hollywood, California.] 



The ' Condor ' for last year contains a number of good 

 papers, generally illustrated by photographs, though per- 

 haps these are not so numerous as of old. Even in far 

 western America the pinch of war has penetrated. 



Mr. J. A. Munro opens the volume with an account of 

 the nesting and other habits of Bari'ow's Golden-eye in the 

 dry, fruit-growing district of Okanagan in British Columbia. 

 They generally make use of an abandoned Flicker's (C'o- 

 laptes) hole in a dead pine-stump, near a lake, for their 

 nest. For the winter they leave the cold interior of the 

 country and resort to the warm waters of Puget and other 

 inlets along the mild coast of the Pacific. Mr. W. C. 

 Bradbury contributes three articles on the nesting-habits 

 and eggs of three well-known species of Colorado birds of 

 whose nidiHcation but little is known. These are the White- 

 throated Swift Aeronantes melanuleucus, the Plover Poda- 

 socys ntontantis, and the Rocky Mountain Jay Perisoreus 

 capitalis. The Swift nests in crevices of cliffs in the Rocky 

 Mountains difficult of access, the Plover on the plains, and 

 the Jay at altitudes of 8000 to 10,000 feet in the mountains, 

 late in April, where it builds in the Lodge-pole Pine. Other 

 articles dealing with local faunas are by Mr. H. S. Sw^arth, 

 bv Messrs. R. W. Quillin and R. Holleman, and by P. 

 A. Taverner on districts in Arizona, Texas, and British 

 Columbia respectively. 



To the already very numerous races of the Fox-Sparrow, 

 Mr. J. Mailliard adds another, the Yolla BoUy Fox-Sparrow 

 Passerella iliaca brevicauda ; while Mr. W. C. Oberholser 



