THE OOLOGI8T 



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is to the Piasa bird. An Indian fancy, 

 a myth, if you will! 



BOOKS RECEIVED 



Annual Report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution 1921. — This publication 

 contains the following paper, 

 which will be of interest to Orni- 

 thologists. "Some preliminaray re- 

 marks on the velocity of migratory 

 flight among birds with special refer- 

 ence to Palaeartic Region," by R. 

 Meinertzhazgen. — R. M. B. 



The Murrelet 



No. 2, V.ol. IV, May 19, 1923, of this 

 most interesting Bird Journal pub- 

 lished by the Pacific Northwest Bird 

 and Mammal Society, is at hand and 

 as usual is filled with fresh readable 

 bird notes, direct from the field. 



The leading article in this issue is 

 on occurrence of the Plumed Egret — 

 An Asiatic Species; Mesophonyx in- 

 termedia — in British Columbia, the 

 specimen referred to having been 

 killed at Burrad Inlet, in May, 1879, 

 and until recently it was regarded as 

 Egretta candidissina. This publica- 

 tion adds another real bird (not an 

 imaginaray sub species) to the A. O. 

 U. list, and the "Murrelet"' is to be 

 congratulated upon being the medium 

 through which this information is put 

 on record. 



The Summer Birds of the Adirondack 

 In Franklin County, N. Y. 



By Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and 

 H. D. Minot 



This is a re-print of this well known 

 Bulletin, which originally appeared 

 in 1877, and is put out by the Roose- 

 velt Wild Life Forest Experiment 

 Station, under the direction of Dr. 

 Charles C. Adams. 



Relation of Summer Birds to the 



Western Adirondack Forest 



By Perley M. Silloway 



Rooi-evelt Wild Life Bulletin. Vol. 

 1, No. 4, March, 1923. 



This is a splendidly written and 

 arranged resrme of the subject of 

 which it treats, and is illustrated by 

 many half-tones and a considerable 

 number of colored plate:?. It will 

 long be a standard on the subject. It 

 has been our observation that what- 

 ever Silloway does he does well. 



Attached to this as pp. 487-520, is a 

 paper by Dr. Charles C. Adams, Di- 

 rector of the Roosevelt Wild Life For- 

 est Experimental Station, on the re- 

 lation of Birds to the Adirondack 

 Forest Vegetation, w'hich is likewise 

 a real contribution to the Literature 

 on that subject. It is illustrated by 

 many half-tones and filled wath in- 

 formation and suggestions of value. 



The Summer Birds of the Alleghany 

 State Park 

 By Aretas A. Saunders 

 This is Roosevelt Wild Life Bulle- 

 tin, No. 1, No. 3, March, 1923. And 

 the fact that A. A. Saunder's name 

 appears at the top is an amply suffi- 

 cient guarantee of both thorough- 

 ness, and Scientific accuracy, which 

 is well borne out, throughout the en- 

 tire paper, which consists of pp. 335- 

 386. This likewise is illustrated by 

 a considerable number of half tones 

 and a few colored plates, and Con- 

 tains a key for the identification for 

 the Birds in the Field. It is a reposi- 

 tory of informiation that the State 

 does well to put within reach of its 

 citizens. — R. M. Barnes. 



Red Tailed Hawk 

 Carnegie Museum Leaflet No. 1 



This is a little leaflet of four pages, 

 prepared and illustrated by our 



