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fested in the form of hostile legislation ; " but these preserves 

 " constitute a very important factor in modern game protection, 

 and, as the country becomes more thickly settled, may become one 

 of the chief means of preserving game for future generations." 



Circular No. 71 deals with " National Bird and Mammal Reser- 

 vations in Alaska." Seven reservations, it is stated, have been 

 set aside and placed in charge of the Department of Agriculture. 

 With one exception, the reservations comprise small islands at 

 several points along the coast of Alaska and in Behring Sea. All 

 the reservations are used as breeding places by sea birds, or Ducks 

 and Geese. All the species are protected by the Alaska game law, 

 and the birds on the reservation are protected by Act of Congress. 



Circular No. 73 is entitled " Progress of Game Protection in 

 1909." The year in question, it is stated, was marked by a general 

 awakening " in the movement for the increase of game, both in 

 experiments in propagation and in the establishment of game 

 refuges and private preserves. Several States made provision for 

 the establishment of State preserves, or game farms." Minnesota 

 and Ontario set aside adjoining tracts, comprising altogether over 

 2,000,000 acres. No fewer than 26 bird reservations, distributed 

 in 14 States and Territories, were created in 1909, making the total 

 51. Two reservations in Florida were enlarged during the year. 

 On most of the reservations the birds bred successfully. Nearly 

 half a million birds were imported into the United States during 

 the year. Of this number 371,910 were Canaries. Of the re- 

 maining hundred thousand, more than half were non-game birds, 

 and 37,511 were game birds. 



" The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales." — 

 This journal is still giving prominence to " Insectivorous Birds 

 of New South Wales." Vol. xxii., part 3 (March), gives two 

 excellent three-colour blocks (after Gould) — namely, Diamond- 

 Bird {Pardalotiis punctatus) and Shrike- Tit {Falcunculus frontatus), 

 with appropriate letter-press. 



The same journal has an article, " On a New Genus of Aus- 

 tralian Birds," by A. J. North, Col. M. B.O.U., Ornithologist of 

 the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Mr. North's own words are ; — "In December, 1910, Mr. 

 Edwin Ashby, of ' Wittunga,' Blackwood, South Australia, 

 wrote to my private address and asked me to examine a skin of 

 a bird he had sent to the Curator of the Australian Museum, and 

 to pass an opinion on it. This I did, replying, ' A new bird, 

 possibly alhed to Ephthiamira.' Early in February, 1911, I 

 received from Mr. Ashby a printed ' Description of a New 

 Ephthianura ' (in galley form), in which he had described the 

 specimen in question under the name of Ephthianura lovensis, 

 thus associating it with the name of its discoverer, Mr. J. R. B. 

 Love ; but there is nothing in the description to indicate whether 



