Recently published Ornithological Works. 205 
The specimens are placed under two headings: firstly, 
systematic, including groups of permanent, summer, and 
winter residents, transient and accidental visitors ; secondly, 
seasonal, with groups for every month. Nearly all the birds 
exhibited have been procured within fifty miles of New 
York, in a district most favourably situated, that includes 
in its rich avifauna species from both the Alleghanian and 
Carolinian areas, which overlap at this point. 
An annotated list of the local birds is also given, with a 
bibliography and an index; while several full-page plates 
and many text-figures embellish the work, the latter—not 
always satisfactory—being taken, with one exception, from 
Coues’s ‘ Key to North American Birds.’ 
A great amount of useful information is incorporated in 
the text, especially under the sections devoted to the several 
months. 
8. ‘ The Condor, Vol. viii. Nos. 1-5 (1906). 
[The Condor, a Magazine of Western Ornithology. Edited by Joseph 
Grinnell. Vol. viii. 1906, Santa Clara, California. | 
We are glad to say that ‘The Condor’ has survived the 
great earthquake and is still “ well and lively.” ‘The first 
five numbers of the present year have been duly issued. 
Mr. Joseph Grinnell is now Editor, and Mr. W. L. Finley 
and Mr. W. B. Fisher are his associates. The articles 
naturally refer almost entirely to the birds of the “ Far 
West,” but there are some capital photographic illustrations. 
We may call attention to the pictures of the eyrie of the 
Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), which ‘is not now common 
anywhere, but is yet found in small numbers in the moun- 
tainous regions of the west, especially in portions of California.” 
There are some interesting letters from Mr. R. C. McGregor, 
who has lately shifted his quarters to Manila, and is 
busily engaged in researches into the rich and varied Ornis 
of the Philippine Archipelago. There is a complete set of 
‘The Condor’ in the library of the Zoological Society of 
London. 
