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The Ornithological Magazines 



The Condor. — In the leading article of 

 the January number of 'The Condor' Wm. 

 L. Finley gives an account of the nesting 

 habits of the Golden Eagle, illustrated with 

 reproductions of six striking photographs, 

 by Finley and Bohlman, of the nest, eggs 

 and young. From observations made on a 

 nest in the coast region of California, he 

 estimates that it required four months for the 

 eagles to rear a brood and that they killed 

 about 540 ground squirrels as food during 

 the three months that the young were fed by 

 the parents. Three papers entitled 'A Col- 

 lecting Trip to Calayan and Fuga,' in the 

 Philippines, by R. C. McGregor ; 'A Col- 

 lecting Trip to Southeastern Colorado,' by 

 E. R. Warren; and ' The Birds of Cheney, 

 Washington,' by Roswell H. Johnson, 

 illustrate the wide range of field work of 

 members of the Cooper Ornithological Club. 

 The series of portraits of European orni- 

 thologists is continued, with photographs of 

 Dr. Ernst Hartert and Arthur H. Evans, 

 of England, Dr. A. B. Meyer, of Dresden, 

 and John A. Harvie-Brown, of Scotland. 



Some idea of the varied contents of the 

 March number can be gained from the fol- 

 lowing brief summary of the principal 

 articles: Finley gives an illustrated account 

 of the nesting habits of the Great Blue and 

 Black-crowned Night Herons, and Bowles 

 describes the finding of a nest of the Hermit 

 Warbler ( Dendroica occidentalis) near 

 Tacoma, Washington, in June, 1905. Ray 

 contributes brief notes on 44 species of 'Sum- 

 mer Birds of San Francisco County, Cali- 

 fornia'; Joseph Mailliard, 'Summer Notes 

 from a Santa Barbara Garden'; and Emer- 

 son tells of the 'Habits of a Mocking Bird' 

 at Haywards, Calif. Ridgway discusses 

 the status of Pipilo maculatus atratus and 

 P. m. ?negalonyx, and concludes that the two 

 forms are distinct. Emerson describes two 

 new species of White-rumped Petrels from 

 the North Pacific coast. Oceanodrotna beali 

 from Sitka Bay, Alaska, and O. beldingi 



from Netarts Bay, Oregon. McGregor 

 describes two convenient 'Methods of Filing 

 Reprints' which will be useful to readers 

 who have not found a satisfactory way of 

 keeping separates readily accessible. Among 

 the notes 'From Field and Study' the editor 

 has a timely article on the 'Foolish Intro- 

 duction of Foreign Birds,' based on the 

 capture of a European Chaffinch near 

 Monterey, Calif., and summarizes the ques- 

 tion in the following terms: "Bird students 

 should take pains to curtail the popular 

 spread of this idea that the importation and 

 release of foreign birds is desirable. It may 

 even be dangerous." — T. S. P. 



The Auk. — The April number opens 

 with a crisp article entitled ' Random Notes 

 on Pacific Coast Gulls, ' by A. W. Anthony. 

 The great abundance of Gulls of many spe- 

 cies along the whole of our western shores 

 is well known, and all of us can enjoy Mr. 

 Anthony's portrayal of the striking traits of 

 these dainty, kid-gloved scavengers of the 

 blue ocean. On later pages the reader is 

 taken, under ' Stray Notes from Alaska,' to 

 the bleak tundra of Seward Peninsula, and 

 a solution of ' Where does the Large-billed 

 Sparrow spend the Summer,' is suggested. 

 It seems probable that its unknown nest and 

 eggs will be found near San Diego, Cali- 

 fornia. 



' The Florida Gallinule Nesting on Long 

 Island, N. Y.,' is reported by Dr. W. C. 

 Braislin, who has found the birds within 

 city limits where streets have been filled in 

 over salt marshes, leaving slimy cat-tail 

 beset pools into which the enthusiast may 

 wade to his neck, if he wishes, to examine 

 nests and eggs. 



Local lists are furnished by J. H. Bowles 

 on the Birds of Tacoma, Wash., by R. W. 

 Williams, Jr., on Leon county, Florida, and 

 by Dr. C. W. Townsend on the birds of 

 Cape Breton Island. 'Variation in the 

 Hairy Woodpecker' is the theme of H.O. 

 Jenkins' paper. It is a pity he did not find 

 some similarities in this wide-ranging 



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