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Birds of the Washington Region. By 

 May Thacher Cooke. Proceedings 

 Biological Society, Washington, Vol. 34, 

 pages 1-22, March 31, 1921. 



Within the narrow limits of twenty-one 

 pages, Miss Cooke has placed a surprising 

 amount of information concerning the 

 299 species and subspecies of birds known 

 to occur within a radius of about 20 miles 

 of the Capitol. We have first a nominal 

 list of the 43 Permanent Residents followed 

 by a fully annotated list of the 108 birds 

 classed as Rare, Irregular or Accidental 

 Visitants (including two hybrids and two 

 extinct species), while the remaining 

 species are included in a table of Regular 

 Migrants with data covering their spring 

 and fall movements. The publication thus 

 makes not only a useful and authoritative 

 list of Washington birds but, in this day of 

 high publishing costs, the method of arrange- 

 ment may well be considered by prospec- 

 tive ai«ihors of other local lists.— F. M. C. 



Club Reports and Bird Annuals 



Welcome evidence of the steadily grow- 

 ing interest in birds and of the value of 

 organized effort in bird-study is given by 

 the increasing number of club reports and 

 bird annuals which come to our desk. 

 Space permits us only to record the names 

 of the publications of this class which have 

 been received recently. Copies of them all, 

 however, may doubtless be secured by 

 those to whom, for one reason or another, 

 they may prove of assistance either in 

 teaching or studying birds. 



The Department of Conservation of the 

 state of Alabama, under John H. Wallace, 

 Jr., issues its usual annual 'Bird Day Book' 

 (address Montgomery, Ala.), and Ohio 

 and Illinois both send admirable Arbor and 

 Bird Day manuals; the first compiled by 

 Anna S. Winters (address Department of 

 Public Instruction, Columbus, Ohio), the 

 second by Francis G. Blair, Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction (address Spring- 

 field, Ills.). 



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The Audubon Societies of Illinois 

 (address 1649 Otis Building, Chicago) and 

 of Indiana (address Frank C. Evans, 

 Secretary, Crawfordsville) have published 

 most attractive and useful 'Bulletins,' and 

 we have also received the 'Bulletin' of 

 the West Chester (Pa.) Bird Club, 'The 

 Murrelet' Official Bulletin of the Pacific 

 Northwest Bird and Mammal Club (ad- 

 dress Seattle, Wash.), and the 'Yearbook' 

 of the Rhinebeck (N. Y.) Bird Club. The 

 latter contains an annotated list, by 

 Maunsell S. Crosby, of the 229 species of 

 birds recorded from Dutchess County, 

 which makes a serviceable guide and check- 

 list for local students, as well as a valuable 

 addition to faunal literature. — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



El Hornero. — The principal paper in 

 the December, 1920 (Vol. II, No. 2) issue 

 of the organ of the Ornithological Society 

 of La Plata (address Calle Peru, 208 

 Buenos Aires) is by the Society's president. 

 Dr. Roberto Dabbene. It is on the 24 spe- 

 cies of North American shore-birds which 

 have been recorded from Argentina. Dr. 

 Dabbene classifies these birds according to 

 their Argentine status as follows: 



I. Abundant and found in part during 

 all the year: Greater and Lesser Yellow- 

 legs, Pectoral and White-rumped Sand- 

 pipers. 



II. Common without being numerous 

 and found only during the summer months: 

 Baird's and Solitary Sandpipers, Golden 

 Plover, Stilt Sandpiper, Bartram's Plover. 



III. Scarce: Knot, Buff-breasted Sand- 

 piper, Sanderling. 



IV. Very rare: Marbled Godwit, Wil- 

 son's Phalarope, Spotted Sandpiper, Semi- 

 palmated Plover, Hudsonian Curlew. 



V. Accidental Visitors: Northern and 

 Red Phalaropes, Curlew Sandpiper, Least 

 Sandpiper, Surf Bird, Green-shank. 



VI. No longer observed: Eskimo Cur- 

 lew (the specimen of this species referred 



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