THE OOLOGIST 



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its destruction but that would suit the 

 writer. 



Some Common Game, Aquatic and 

 Rapacious Birds in Relation to Man, 

 by William L. McAtee and F. E. L. 

 Beale, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 

 Farmers Bulletin No. 497. A thirty- 

 page paper treating of a number of 

 well known birds such as the Prairie 

 Chicken, California Quail, Ruffed 

 Grouse, Upland Plover, Killdeer, Horn- 

 ed Grebe, Franklin's Gull, Common and 

 Black Tern, Cooper's Rough-legged 

 and Sparrow Hawk, and Screech Owl. 

 It is full of useful information relating 

 to these species. 



The Mammals of Illinois and Wis- 

 consin, by Charles B. Corey, Curator 

 of the Department of Zoology. 



This is Publication No. 53 Zoology 

 Series XI of the Field Museum of 

 Natural History. While it is not 

 strictly a bird publication, yet it is 

 full of information for all naturalists, 

 being a complete resume of the mam- 

 mals found within the territory cover- 

 ed, occupying 452 pages, very fully 

 illustrated, and coming as it does from 

 the pen of one who stands at the very 

 forefront of this kind of research, will 

 like its companion book, The Birds of 

 Illinois and Wisconsin, take and main- 

 tain rank as a standard upon the sub- 

 ject of which it treats for many years 

 to come. It is a credit to the institu- 

 tion as well as to the author. 



Birds of Douglas County, South Da- 

 kota, by Alexander Walker and Eu- 

 gene C. Ford. 



This little publication issued April 

 15, 1912, contains a list of the birds 

 found in Douglas County, South Da- 

 kota. While it does not pretend to be 

 a complete list, but "contains only 

 those species that we have personally 

 observed or know of their being found 

 here," yet is without doubt a nearly 

 complete list, showing as it does, 134 



species. Extensive notes relating to 

 81 species are added, together with il- 

 lustrations of the nests, eggs and 

 birds of a number of other varieties. 

 On the whole, the publication is one 

 that is creditable to the authors. 

 However, the scientific appearance of 

 the same is detracted from by the ad- 

 dition of eight pages of advertising 

 matter. 



Professor Wilson Tout, City Super- 

 intendent of schools at North Platte, 

 Nebraska, sends us a postal card 

 showing what real practical bird work 

 in schools will do. It contains a like- 

 ness of a class of sixty-eight scholars 

 sitting on the steps of their splendid 

 school building, each of whom holds in 

 his hands, a bird house of varying con 

 structure for use this coming spring. 

 Would that every bird lover engaged 

 in school teaching in this country 

 would do likewise. 



Mr. Eaton's statement as quoted in 

 Burn's "Monograph on Broadwing 

 Hawk"; See— Wilson Bulletin— last 

 number, i. e., "do not breed in Mon- 

 roe Co," (N. Y.) is incorrect. 



A pair of birds were shot in the 

 woods on farm owned by H. F. Walk- 

 er in the town of Chili, on May 30th 

 1906. Were feeding young at the 

 time; taking young chickens from a 

 coop on the adjoining farm belonging 

 to, or at least occupied by J. Lesch. I 

 supposed I had reported this to Eaton. 

 I positively identified the dead bird-. 



Ernest H. Short. 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Mr. J. H. Bowles writes from the 

 coast that he is just leaving for Ta- 

 coma and that on February 20th hum- 

 mingbirds were nesting. That up to 

 that time he had found five Anna's 

 Hummers and four Allen's Hummers' 

 nests. 



