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GrinneWs List of Californian Birds. 



[A Systematic List of the Birds of California by Joseph Grinnell. 

 Cooper Ornithological Club. Pacific Coast Avifiiuna. Number 8. 

 Tp. 1-23. Hollywood, California, 1912. Svo.] 



This is a formal list of tlie birds o£ California, based on 

 the latest information available, but Avithout any further 

 indication as to status or distribution within the State. The 

 only novel feature is in the classification or arrangement 

 "which, contrary to the usual methods employed in the 

 United States, is not that of the A. O. U. Check-list, but is 

 "almost identically that based cliiefly i;pon Gadow and 

 presented by Knowlton " in his ' Birds of the World' (New 

 York, Holt, 1909). 



Hagen on the Birds of TAlbeck. 



[Die Vogel des Friestaates und Fiirstentums Liibeck, von Werner 

 Hagen. Pp. iv+16G. Berlin (Junk). 1913. 8vo.] 



This work contains a systematic account of the avifauna 

 of the Free-State of Liibeck and its adjoining Principality, 

 which lie along the coast of the extreme south-west corner 

 of the Baltic. The population is considerable and increasing, 

 and the changes brought about by advancing cultivation, 

 modern methods of forestry, and the spread of towns and 

 suburbs have had the usual result of the gradual extinction 

 of the larger and wilder species. No Wild Goose now breeds 

 within its limits, nor Crane, nor Black Stork, although they 

 all formerly did so. Herr Hagen has therefore thought it 

 well to bring together all the past records and present 

 condition of the avifauna, and here presents it under the 

 auspices of the German Ornithological Society. 



The species enumerated number 267, and following this 

 are some appendices devoted to aberrations and monstrosities, 

 to migration and to bird protection in the districts treated of. 



Hudson's Adventures among Birds. 



[Adventures among Birds. By W. II. Hudson : with a portrait. 

 London (Hutchinson). 1913. Svo.] 



In his new volume Mr. Hudson is chiefly occupied witli 



