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Bird- Lore 



Warbler, - and 'What Can We Call the 

 Incubation Period,' by Ora W. Knight; 

 Migration Reports for 1895, reports on the 

 status of the Bluebird in Maine during the 

 past spring, from which it appears "that in 

 most places Bluebirds are as plentiful as 

 they were last year, while in some localities 

 they are reported scarce," and ' Notes ' from 

 various parts of the state. 



We read with pleasure the editor's state- 

 ment that "the progress of bird study in 

 Maine'during the past two years has been 

 great. Everywhere there has been an 

 awakened interest in ornithology, and there 

 are now ten times as many bird students as 

 formerly." 



For the September issue, W. H. Brown- 

 son supplies a graphic description of a visit 

 to 'The Tern Colony of Bluff Island, ' which 

 in June he estimated to contain over one 

 thousand birds. Frank T. Noble describes 

 his experience with a wounded Pintail, 

 which "was discovered on the bottom, 

 grasping with its bill the tough stem of a 

 cowslip." There are migration reports from 

 members and a very interesting sketch, by 

 Walter H. Rich, of a captive White- winged 

 Scoter, whose portrait serves as a frontis- 

 piece to this number. 



O. W. Knight writes on 'Some Birds of 

 Pleasant Ridge,' Ruthven Deane sends 

 'Notes from Scarboro Beach,' and items 

 follow on various birds. Notice is given 

 that the annual meeting of the Maine Orni- 

 thological Society will be held in Portland, 

 at the rooms of the Portland Society of 

 Natural History, on Friday and Saturday 

 following Thanksgiving Day. — F. M. C. 



The Warbler. — The second number of 

 the second volume of 'The Warbler,' pub- 

 lished May 1, 1906, contains colored figures 

 of the eggs of ' 'Empidonax griseus canes- 

 cens" and of "Empidonax insulicola" but 

 since Mr. Grinnell has shown that this 

 alleged island form is inseparable from 

 Empidonax difficilis (Condor, VIII, 1906, 

 74), we may accept the figures as represent- 

 ing a Santa Barbara Island set of eggs of 

 that Flycatcher. 



Mr. Grinnell writes on the nesting habits 

 of the first-named Empidonax, which he 

 found to be "fairly common in July on the 

 higher portions of the San Gabriel Moun- 

 tains in the vicinity of Mount Waterman," 

 but we are assured that this careful student 

 is not responsible for the slip which, both 

 on the plate and in the heading to his text, 

 makes Empidonax canescens read "Empi- 

 donax griseus canescens." 



P. B. Peabody writes of the breeding 

 habits of the Pifion Jay as he found it in 

 Wyoming, and accompanies his article with 

 three photographs, one of which shows this 

 Jay brooding. 



The third number of this volume of ' The 

 Warbler,' published August 20, figures in 

 color the eggs of Bicknell's Thrush and of 

 the Salt Marsh Yellow-throat, and contains 

 an illustrated study of the Rocky Mountain 

 Nuthatch, by P. B. Peabody ; ' Long Island 

 Bird Notes,' by John Lewis Childs; the 

 ' Nesting of the Roseate Spoonbill in Flo- 

 rida,' by R. D. Hoyt; the ' Gnatcatchers 

 of Southern California,' by Harry H.Dunn, 

 and ' The Chuck-Wills-Widow,' by Anne 



E. Wilson. 



The Wilson Bulletin. — The Wilson 

 Bulletin for June, the second number of the 

 eighteenth volume of this standard publica- 

 tion, contains a capital article on the habits 

 of the Common and Roseate Terns, which 

 we can commend to field workers, not only 

 for its contents, but as an object-lesson in 

 methods of field study. The Common Tern 

 has been studied by many ornithologists in 

 a more or less desultory fashion, but Mr. 

 Jones' additions to our knowledge of the 

 habits of this species show the importance 

 of concentration of effort. 



Other articles are ' A Preliminary List of 

 the Birds of ,Seneca County, Ohio,' by W. 



F. Heninger, which enumerates 203 native 

 and 2 introduced species; ' Remarks on the 

 Summer Birds of Lake Muskoka, Ontario,' 

 by B. H. Swales and P. A. Taver- 

 ner; 'Two All-Day Records in Northern 

 Ohio,' by Lynds Jones, Notices of Recent 

 Literature, etc. 



