158 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



explored owing to its inaccessibility and to tlie difficulty of 

 penetrating into it, and so it remains very mucli in its original 

 condition^ and but little modified by human occupation. It 

 consists of a series of islands covered with pine barrens, 

 cypress [Taxodium) bays, and prairies, i. e. open swamps 

 and water courses. Within its limits are a number of birds 

 now becoming very scarce in most parts of the United States, 

 such as the Water Turkey {Anhbiga anhingd), the Lumpkin 

 (^Aramus vociferus), the Wild Turkey {Meleagris silvestris), 

 and the Pileated Woodpecker [Phlceotomus pileatus), as well 

 as several of the swamp-loving Warblers (Mniotiltidse), rare 

 elsewhere. The authors, with several other naturalists, 

 chiefly entomologists, all from Cornell University, spent 

 over two months of the summer of 1912 exploring and 

 collecting, and their field-notes, with an interesting intro- 

 duction, are here set out and illustrated by photographs of 

 the types of scener3\ 



O. E. Baynard (pp. 240-247) writes on the breeding birds 

 of Alachua county in central Florida, where there are 

 probably more Egrets surviving than in any other part of 

 the States. There are two rookeries strictly preserved, one 

 by the National Association of Audubon SocietieSj and others 

 which will probably be guarded in future. The two species 

 Herodias egretta and Egretta candidissima are rapidly in- 

 creasing owing to the protection afi'orded to them. 



E. S. Cameron, M.B.O.U., a resident in Montana, has 

 some interesting field-notes on the nesting habits, food, and 

 changes of plumage of Buteo swainsoni (pp. 167-176, 

 381-394), a much persecuted bird, which is yearly becoming 

 more scarce, though it does little or no harm. This 

 paper is illustrated with photographs of a nest situated in a 

 lonely cottonwood tree, and of the changes of plumage. 



G. Eifrig (pp. 236-210) records his observations on some 

 rarer birds noticed during several years past at Addison, 111., 

 a town about 20 miles west of Chicago, in prairie country. 



S. S. Visher (pp. 561-573) contributes an annotated list 

 of the birds of Saiiborn county, S. Dakota, a typical prairie 



