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Vieques Island, Porto Rico.' These 

 'extralimital' contributions are welcome 

 and give us a glimpse of bird-life beyond 

 our boundaries in the West Indies and 

 further south in Argentina. 



In a paper on the 'Migration of the 

 Yellow-billed Loon' by Mr. J. Dixon, the 

 author states that "careful analysis of the 

 various Alaskan records of the Yellow- 

 billed Loon do not disclose any definite or 

 authoritative information as to breeding- 

 habits or habitat." This will be a blow to 

 collectors who own sets of eggs supposed 

 to be of this species. 



Mr. A. H. Norton in 'Notes on Some 

 Maine Birds' adds some new records to the 

 state list, and Mr. G. D. Hanna contrib- 

 utes 'Records of Birds New to the Pribilof 

 Islands Including Two New to North 

 America,' the latter being the European 

 Goldeneye and the Brambling. 



Mr. J. H. Fleming under the title of 

 'The Saw- whet Owl of the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands' describes Cryptoglaux acadica 

 brooksi, and Mr. J. C. Phillips describes a 

 new goose, Chlcephaga hybrida malvina- 

 rum from the Falkland Islands. 



Little need be said here concerning a 

 list of 'Changes in the A. O. U. Check- 

 List of North American Birds Proposed 

 Since the Publication of the Sixteenth 

 Supplement.' The list is merely a com- 

 pilation of proposed changes and every- 

 body is invited to throw verbal bricks at 

 it to enable the Nomenclature Committee 

 to judge better the value of the names for 

 incorporation in a new Check-List to be 

 published some day in the future. 



Some of us will be surprised to find 

 among 'General Notes' at page 434 a 

 record of a flock of fifty Eskimo Curlew 

 seen in Massachusetts, near Ipswich, 

 May 17, 1916. As there are practically no 

 spring records of this species for Massa- 

 chusetts, even when the birds were most 

 abundant, this sight record, on hearsay 

 evidence and that at a time when the 

 species is apparently near extinction, may 

 well be questioned. — J. D. 



The Condor. — The September num- 

 ber of The Condor contains six general 



articles, half of which are local lists. Pierce 

 publishes 'More Bird Notes' on 14 species 

 observed in Big Bear Valley in the San 

 Bernardino Mountains, Tyler adds 'Sup- 

 plementary Notes' on 33 species in the 

 Fresno District, making 194 species now 

 known from this region, and Mailliard 

 contributes notes on 7 species observed in 

 the vicinity of Humbolt Bay in May and 

 June, 1916. 



The second installment of Mrs. Bailey's 

 delightful paper on 'Meeting Spring Half 

 Way' describes a 'cross-country drive 

 made in April, 1900, from Corpus Christi, 

 Texas, to the Rio Grande. 



'A Hospital for Wild Birds,' a unique 

 institution maintained by Dr. W. W. 

 Arnold at Colorado Springs, Colo., is 

 described by the owner, who has erected a 

 commodious aviary for the accommoda- 

 tion of crippled birds brought in by the 

 children of the neighborhood. After a 

 heavy hailstorm in July, 19 15, forty- five 

 injured Robins and fifteen miscellaneous 

 birds were received for treatment. An 

 American Bittern which had been shot in 

 the wing and had lost half of the upper 

 mandible proved an interesting patient 

 and lived for several months until "his 

 appetite began to fail and he died of 

 inanition." 



In 'Notes on the Golden Eagle in 

 Arizona,' Willard mentions two instances 

 in which the birds were found feeding on 

 carrion and were so sluggish that they 

 were captured with ease by men on horse- 

 back. 



Among the brief notes are several im- 

 portant records of sea-birds including one 

 of a Pomarine Jaeger {Stercorarius pomari- 

 nus) on San Francisco Bay, May 15, 1916, 

 and one of a Long-tailed Jaeger (5. longi- 

 candiis) at Hyperion, Los Angeles Co., 

 January 26, 1916. The latter is said to be 

 the second record of this species on the 

 California coast south of Monterey Bay 

 and the seventh for the state. Still more 

 interesting is a note by C. I. Clay on the 

 breeding in 1916 of the Fork-tailed Petrel 

 on Whaler Island, near Crescent City, and 

 on Sugar Loaf Rock at Trinidad, Cal. — 

 T. S. P. 



