Book News and Reviews 



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American birds. An account of the annual 

 meeting, the membership roll, and the 

 usual notes and reviews conclude the 

 issue. — L. G. 



The first number of the fifth volume of the 

 American Bird-House Journal, published by 

 J. Warren Jacobs, at Wa5Tiesburg, Pa., con- 

 tains much information in regard to nesting- 

 houses. Sparrow-traps and food-shelters. 



The Maine Naturalist (Thomaston, Maine) 

 has a Department of Ornithology edited by 

 Arthur H. Norton and Alfred O. Gross. 



The issue for April, 1921 (No. i. Vol. i), 

 contains an illustrated article on Petrels by 

 Mr. Norton and various shore notes on other 

 birds. 



In the Scientific Monthly for May, 192 1, 

 (pp. 457-480) Dr. R. W. Shufeldt brings 

 together much information in regard to illus- 

 trations of the Passenger Pigeon and repro- 

 duces fifteen of them. Two photographs of 

 living birds in Forbush's 'History of Game- 

 birds' are considered to possess exceptional 

 value, ^s, so far as the author's "knowledge 

 carries these are the only pictures of the kind 

 extant." Dr. Shufeldt has, however, over- 

 looked the unique series of nine superb photo- 

 graphs by J. G. Hubbard of Professor Whit- 

 man's birds which appeared in Bird-Lore for 

 March- April, 1913. 



The Murrelet (Vol. II, No. 2) Official 

 Bulletin of the Pacific Northwest Bird and 

 Mammal Club (Seattle, Wash.), contains an 

 important paper on 'Breeding Dates for 

 Washington Birds' by J. H. Bowles; 'Shore 

 Bird Notes at Westport, Wash., by D. E. 

 Brown; 'British Columbia Bird Notes,' by 

 J. A. Munro; and other shorter communica- 

 tions. 



From the summer number of Bird Notes 

 and News, the quarterly journal of the Royal 

 Society for the Protection of Birds, we learn 

 that the bill prohibiting the importation of 

 plumage into Great Britain (certain species 

 excepted) having passed the House of Com- 

 mons, was read for a second time in the 

 House of Lords on June 21. We trust that 

 before these lines are published this su- 

 premely important measure will have become 

 a law. 



Ira N. Gabrielson has published, in the 

 Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 

 (Vol. XXV, 1919, pp. 123-153; Vol. XXVI, 

 pp. 47-75; Davenport, Iowa), a well-anno- 

 tated list of 'The Birds Found at Marshall 

 County, Iowa.' The list is based on obser- 

 vations made between Sept. i, 191 2, and 

 Sept. 7, 1915, and includes 201 species, all 

 but two of which were personally recorded 

 by the author. 



In the May, 1920, issue of School, Science 

 and Mathematics, Horace Gun thorp, of 

 Washburn College, Topeka, Kans., gives 

 some interesting data in regard to bird-study 

 in the educational institutions of the Missis- 

 sippi Valley. It appears that out of a total 

 of about one hundred and forty colleges and 

 universities having over one hundred stu- 

 dents, thirty-four (of which a list is given) 

 offer courses in ornithology. Mr. Gunthorp 

 makes some admirable suggestions in regard 

 to the desirability of having those in charge 

 of these courses become members of an 

 ornithological society. 



Chauncey J. Hawkins' paper on 'Sexual 

 Selection and Bird Song' which originally 

 appeared in The Auk (Vol. XXXV, 19 18) 

 has been honored by republication in the 

 Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 

 1918 (pp. 461-473). 



