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a description of a large breeding ' Colony 

 of Tricolored Blackbirds' near Fresno, 

 California, is presented by John G. Tyler; 

 and an interesting account is contributed 

 by Rev. P. B. Peabody of 'The Prairie 

 Falcons of Saddleback Butte' in Sioux- 

 county, Nebraska, and of repeated at- 

 tempts, finally successful, to locate the 

 nesting site. In 'A Collecting Trip by 

 Wagon to Eagle Lake, Sierra Nevada 

 Mountains,' Harry H. Sheldon includes 

 an annotated list of 91 species of birds 

 and, among other interesting notes, 

 records the nesting of the Cinnamon Teal 

 at Eagle Lake and of the Northern Pileated 

 Woodpecker near Big Meadows. The 

 former record apparently gives the most 

 northern locality at which the Cinnamon 

 Teal has been found breeding in the 

 state. 



Two articles on Southwestern birds 

 complete the list of papers. M. French 

 Gilman concludes his list of 'Some Birds 

 of Southwest Colorado,' and Austin Paul 

 Smith contributes some brief 'Summer 

 Notes from an Arizona Camp.' The 

 most interesting point in the latter article 

 is the record of the presence in the Whet- 

 stone Mountains of three species each 

 of Thrashers, Orioles, Tanagers and 

 Partridges, and no less than four repre- 

 sentatives of the family of Nighthawks 

 and Whip-poor-wills. 



This number of 'The Condor' ends 

 with page 211 and completes Volume IX — 

 a volume larger than most of its predeces- 

 sors, if not the largest in the series. — 

 T. S. P. 



Book News 



'The Century' for January contains 

 Mr. Finley's remarkable study 'The Home- 

 Life of a California Condor,' which those 

 who were fortunate enough to hear it will 

 recall as one of the most stirring accounts 

 of field-work ever presented before the 

 American Ornithologists' Union. 



Messrs. A. and C. Black (Soho Square, 

 London, W.) announce the publication 

 of the 'Birds of Britain' by J. Lewis Bon- 

 hate. The book will be illustrated by 100 



full-page plates reproduced by colortype 

 from the originals of Dresser's 'Birds of 

 Europe' in a manner which, if we may 

 judge from the specimen plates examined, 

 will be wholly satisfactory both to orni- 

 thologist and artist. 



In 'The Nature Study Review' for 

 December, Bina Seymour has some 'Ob- 

 servations on Barn Swallows' in which it 

 appears that two young birds which left 

 the following day were fed on August 7, 

 332 times. Feeding began at 6.03 a.m. and 

 ended at 6.51 p.m. The birds were fed 

 "almost without exception," alternately 

 and the average number of insects for each 

 young bird is said to be 166, but does 

 it follow that only one insect was given 

 each feeding? 



We have received a prospectus of 'The 

 Birds of Maine' by Ora W. Knight (84' 

 Forest Ave., Bangor, Me.), which it is 

 expected will be ready for delivery not 

 later than April 15. The work will contain 

 descriptions of plumages as well as biog- 

 raphies. 



Witherby & Co., 326 High Holborn, 

 London, announce the publication of a 

 special photographic number of 'British 

 Birds' on 'The Home-Life of Some Marsh 

 Birds' by Emma L. Turner and P. H. 

 Bahr. It is illustrated with thirty-two full- 

 page plates and many text illustrations. 

 The price, postpaid, is seventy cents. 



The December, 1907, number of 'For 

 California' (Vol. X, No. 1), issued by the 

 California Promotion Committee, at San 

 Francisco, is a 'Bird Number' and con- 

 tains the following articles: 'Birds in 

 California', F. W. D. Evelyn; 'Birds of the 

 California Desert,' F. W. Koch; 'Birds of 

 My Winter Garden,' Bertha Chapman; 

 'The Greatest Bird Rookery in the West,' 

 M. S. Ray; 'Some Birds the Stranger 

 Sees,' Elizabeth Grinnell; 'Bird Beauty 

 and Perfection,' W. E. Ritter; 'A Bird 

 with a Language,' Joseph Grinnell; 'Birds 

 of the Mountains,' W. W. Price; 'Pasa- 

 dena Tourists,' W. P. Taylor; 'Gulls of 

 San Francisco Bay,' C. E. Edwords; 

 'The Audubon Society of California,' W. 

 Scott Wav. 



