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Bird - Lore 



Other, papers in this number relate 

 more directly to the region to which the 

 club devotes its special attention; Cornel- 

 ius Weygandt writing of 'Some Birds of 

 Brown's Mills, N. J., Spencer Trotter on 

 'Type Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey,' Charles J. Pennock on 

 'Bird-life of the Indian River Country of 

 Delaware,' and Chreswell J. Hunt, pre- 

 sents 'A Pensauken Diary.' 



Members of the club at forty-three dif- 

 ferent localities contribute data on the 

 spring migration of 1907, which are com- 

 piled by Mr. Stone in the usual valuable 

 annual report of this subject. 



The abstract of the proceedings at Club 

 meetings shows that from January 3, to 

 December 19, 1907, sixteen meetings were 

 held with an average attendance of 

 twenty-three members; the number rang- 

 ing from fifteen to thirty-five. Judged by 

 this record the D. V. O. C. continues to 

 be the most active local ornithological 

 society in this country. — F. M. C. 



List of the Birds of the New Haven 

 Region. Compiled by a Committee of 

 Freeman F. Burr, Chairman, Philip L. 

 Buttrick, Alfred W. Honywill, Jr., 

 D wight B. Pangburn, Aretas A. Saund- 

 ers, Clifford H. Pangburn. Advisory 

 Committee, Louis B. Bishop. Bulletin 

 No. 1 New Haven Bird Club, May, 

 1908. 8vo. 32 pages. 



This list is a good example of the results 

 of cooperative bird study. Various mem- 

 bers of the committee describe the more 

 favorable places for birds and bird stu- 

 dents about New Haven and then give 

 us a briefly annotated list of 217 species of 

 birds "that can be seen during any year 

 in the immediate vicinity of New Haven." 

 This list is based mainly on the observa- 

 tions of the members of the committee, 

 and being designed to represent the pres- 

 ent status of the species treated, should 

 be of practical value to bird students in 

 the region covered. A nominal list of rare 

 or extirpated species is appended. Without 

 in any way reflecting on the accuracy of 

 the work of the members of the committee, 

 we congratulate them on their good judg- 

 ment in securing the cooperation of their 



fellow-townsmen as an Advisory Com- 

 mittee. — F. M. C. 



A Catalogue of the Birds of Prince 

 Edward Island. By JohnMacSwain, 

 Proc. and Trans., Nova Scotian Insti- 

 tute, xi, pp. 570-592. 



This list is based mainly on the field 

 work of its author from 1895 to 1907, 

 during which time he has identified 203 

 species of birds. 



Under the head of "Species Reported 

 by Other Writers," 13 species are added 

 from Macoun's 'Catalogue of Canadian 

 Birds,' and four from Bain's "Birds of 

 Prince Edward Island." While it might 

 destroy the record of personal achieve- 

 ment, it would add greatly to the refer- 

 ence value of the list if these 17 additional 

 species had been included in it. Mr. Mac- 

 Swain does not appear to be familiar with 

 Dwight's 'Summer Birds of Prince Ed- 

 ward Island' (The Auk, X, 1S93, pp. 

 1-15), a list of 80 species, seven of which 

 are not contained in the body of his paper, 

 but are included in quotations from other 

 authors. 



It is hoped that the edition of reprints 

 . of Mr. MacSwain's paper is large enough 

 to supply local students with this useful 

 check-list.— F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



Journal of the Maine Ornitholog- 

 ical Society. — The June, 1907, number 

 of this 'Journal' opens with a brief history of 

 the society, followed by an account of the 

 Redstart from O. W. Knight's, 'Birds of 

 Maine,' the 1906 migration report and 

 numerous local notes. In the Septem- 

 ber number W. H. Brownson describes 

 a visit to a colony of Laughing Gulls near 

 Bristol, Maine, and also reports on the 

 great Common Tern colony on Bluff 

 Island. The autumn migration report of 

 1906 and the usual local notes complete 

 the number. For December we have 

 'Observations on the Nesting and Feeding 

 of the Loon,' by Dr. W. C. Kendall, 'The 

 Wood Duck and its Danger,' by A. H. 

 Norton, 'Scarcity of the Ruffed Grouse,' 



