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and most important references. The work is thus condensed, yet suffi- 
ciently comprehensive to meet the needs of the specialist and general 
student, for whom the work is particularly designed. If the succeeding 
bird parts conform to the present standard it will be of the utmost 
service, and deserve the wide support we heartily wish it.—J. A. A. 
Mearns on the ‘ Ornithological Vocabulary of the Moki Indians.’!—In 
this paper the Moki names are given for most of the birds found in the 
Moki country in Arizona, some two hundred or more in number. The 
list was prepared with the aid of Dr. Mearns’s ‘‘venerable friend 
Ongwischey (Raven),” an intelligent Indian who took interest in the 
work. <A brief account of the Moki people and their country precedes 
the vocabulary of bird names. In addition to the names there are 
annotations here and there of much ornithological interest, but the 
paper is mainly of value to the anthropologist. —J. A. A. 
Papers on Economic Ornithology.— Mr. Sylvester D. Judd’s paper 
entitled ‘Methods in Economic Ornithology, with special reference to the 
Catbird’? is of special interest, aside from its bearing on Economic 
Ornithology, from the fact that insects supposed to be distasteful to birds 
on account of their nauseous odors or more or less acrid secretions, do not 
in fact prove to be so, and are thus not secure from the attacks of birds by 
these supposed ‘ protective’ qualities, as so many writers on ‘ protective 
mimicry’ have assumed. Thus Mr. Judd has found that 9 out of 13 
Catbirds taken in a little gully near Washington, on July 30, 1895, where 
ripe élderberries and blackberries were abundant, had partaken liberally 
“ of the destructive locust beetle, 18 of these orange and black pests having 
been taken from one bird. This is surprising, because beetles of this 
family (Chrysomellide) secrete a substance which is supposed to be dis- 
tasteful to birds. . . . In the insect food of these birds there were no ants 
or grasshoppers, but, on the other hand, the supposedly distasteful locust 
leaf mining beetles.” Again, in his experiments with live birds kept ina 
cage for the purpose of studying their food preferences, Mr. Judd found 
that ‘‘Stink bugs (Pentatomidz), whose nauseating odor is familiar to 
every one who has been berrying, were eaten by the Catbirds, even when 
they had been well fed with other food.” He says further: “ Bad smelling 
beetles (Carabidz), which have been supposed to develop their stench to 
protect them from birds, were snatched as soon as they were put on the 
cork ” (a floating cork island in a large bowl of water, used to prevent the 
insects escaping). That this preference was not due to confinement or 
unnatural conditions is shown by the fact that ‘* Beetles formed, in the 
200 [wild] Catbird stomachs examined, the most important part of the 
1 Amer. Anthropologist, Dec., 1896, pp. 391-403. 
? American Naturalist, May, 1897, pp. 392-397. 
