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tions, Dr. Dawson proposes the collective 

 term Olympiades from their proximity to 

 the Olympic Mountains. Here are the 

 nesting grounds of twelve species of sea- 

 birds comprising, according to an estimate 

 made in June 1907, some 60,000 Gulls, 

 Cormorants, Puffins, Auklets and Murres, 

 and 100,000 Kaeding Petrels. 



Under the title 'Northwestern Colorado 

 Bird Notes,' Warren gives a list of ninty- 

 three species of birds observed during the 

 spring and summer of 1907; and in 'Notes 

 from the Diary of a Naturalist in Northern 

 California,' Ferry mentions about one 

 hundred species observed while engaged 

 in work for the Biological Survey, in 1905, 

 at various points chiefly in Mendocino, 

 Trinity, Siskiyou, Del Norte, and Hum- 

 boldt counties. The nesting habits of the 

 Western Horned Owl in Colorado are 

 described by Rockwell and those of the 

 Tawny Creeper in Washington by Bowles. 



Dr. D'Evelyn contributes a popular 

 account of the principal 'Locust-destroy- 

 ing Birds of the Transvaal'; Grinnell de- 

 scribes 'The Southern California Chicka- 

 dee' from Mt. Wilson as a new subspecies 

 (Par us gambeli bailey <z); and Willard in 

 'An Arizona Nest Census' gives a striking 

 illustration of the manner in which birds 

 sometimes breed in close proximity. At 

 Tombstone, Ariz., in a space only 120 x 

 150 feet twenty-eight pairs of birds, repre- 

 senting ten distinct species, nested and 

 reared one or more broods of young. — 

 T. S. P. 



Book News 



Nearly every issue of 'Country Life in 

 America' contains one or more illustrated 

 articles on birds, but the lesson of the much- 

 discussed 'fake' Grouse pictures, which 

 appeared in that magazine some years ago, 

 appears not to have born fruit, and on page 

 612 of the May number there are some 

 notable examples of stuffed-bird photog- 

 raphy. Here also we find a Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo labelled "Seaside Finch!" 



In 'Some Records of Fall Migration of 

 1906' (Ninth Annual Report Michigan 

 Academy Science, pp. 166-171) Mr. Nor- 

 man A. Wood gives a synopsis of daily 



observations made at Portage Lake, Wash- 

 tenaw county, Michigan, from September 

 9 to October 21. 



The birds of probably no portion of 

 South America are better known than 

 those of the island of Trinidad, but in 

 spite of the long-continued work of col- 

 lectors in this comparatively restricted 

 area, Mr. George K. Cherrie (Vol. I, No. 

 13, Science Bulletin Museum Brooklyn 

 Institute Arts and Science), adds four 

 species to the list of Trinidad birds as a 

 result of field work there during March, 

 1907. Of these, however, two were pre- 

 viously known from Monos island, adjoin- 

 ing northwest Trididad, while Chcetura 

 cinereicauda, given by Cherrie as a first 

 record for Trinidad, had already been 

 recorded as "Common" at Caparo in the 

 central part of the island by Chapman 

 (Bulletin American Museum Natural 

 History, vii, 1895, 324), on whose speci- 

 mens Hellmayr (Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 XIX, 1907, 62) has since based his Chce- 

 tura 'inereicauda chapmani. 



The name of Denis Gale appears so 

 frequently in Bendire's 'Life Histories of 

 North American Birds' that bird students 

 will read with interest an account of the 

 work of this "early Colorado naturalist" 

 published by Junius Henderson in the 

 'University of Colorado Studies' (Vol. V, 

 No. 1, Dec. 1907. 



In the 'Museum News' of the Brooklyn 

 Institute (Vol. 3, No. 7, April 1908) 

 George K. Cherrie makes an important 

 addition to our knowledge of the habits of 

 the Giant Stork or Jabiru based on his 

 study of this bird in Venzuela, where he 

 tells us the bird's wings and tail feathers 

 are in demand "as ornaments for ladies' 

 hats." 



The ' Nature-Study Review' for April 

 (pp. 133-137) contains an article by C. F. 

 Hodge entitled 'Nature-Study and the 

 Preservation of American Game Birds' in 

 which the author offers to cooperate in the 

 artificial propagation of the Wild Turkey, 

 Bob-White, Ruffed Grouse, Passenger 

 Pigeon, and Prairie Hen. Professor 

 Hodge's address is Clark University, Wor- 

 cester, Mass. 



