524 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Cassinia. 



[' Cassinia. A Bird Annual.' Proceedings of the Delaware Valley 

 Ornithological Club of Philadelphia, no. xvii. for 1913, pp. 1-68. 

 Philadelphia, 1914, 8vo.] 



Apart from articles of purely local interest 'Cassinia' 

 nearly always contains sometliing to interest other orni- 

 thologists apart from those of Philadelphia. 



Some notes on Alexander Wilson^ who died in 1813, just 

 one hundred years ago, by Mr. Witmer Stone, has the first 

 place in the present number. Wilson died in the prime of 

 life at the age of forty-seven, leaving his great work on 

 '^ American Ornithology" little more than half completed. 

 With Andubon, he occupies the same position as Yarrell in 

 England, and the Naumanns in Grermany, and as he lived 

 and died in Philadelphia, it is appropriate that the centenary 

 of his death should be noticed in ' Cassinia.' A photograph 

 of what appears to be a characteristic and artistic statue, 

 by Mr. Alexander Calder, now placed in the libiary of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, form a frontispiece of the 

 number. Wilson is represented in hunting dress, with his 

 gun lying on the ground beside him, bending over a freshly- 

 killed bird which he is studying intently. 



The editor, Mr. R. T. Moore, writes at length on the songs 

 of the Oven-bird {Seiurus aurocapillus) and reduces several 

 variations of them to musical notation; Mr. Samuel N. 

 Rhoads contributes an account of a bird-roost which he 

 has recently discovered in New Jersey. This is a sandy 

 knoll covered with pines above and deciduous trees below. 

 Here come every evening, in very large numbers, birds of 

 different species to roost, such as Starlings, Grackles, Crow- 

 Blackbirds, Flickers, American Robins and many others. 



Other papers deal with the local Fish-eating birds by 

 H. W. Fowler, a census of Turkey Buzzards in Delaware, 

 and a report on the spring migration of 1913 in the 

 Delaware Valley. 



