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by Walter H. Rich, and some interesting 

 extracts from the journals of Mr. Geo. A. 

 Boardman. 



The March, 1908, number is largely 

 devoted to Christmas bird lists and the 

 proceedings of the annual meeting of the 

 society held at Portland, November 29-30, 

 1907, marking the twelfth year of the 

 existence of this flourishing organiza- 

 tion, while there is also an account of a 

 Bank Swallow colony, by H. H. Cleaves, 

 illustrated by a plate. In the June number 

 O. W. Knight discusses the Faunal Areas 

 of Maine,' P. B. Rolfe writes of 'Fish 

 Hawks Forty Years Ago,' and W. H. 

 Brownson contributes extended migra- 

 tion notes from Cape Elizabeth, Maine, 

 for May, 1908. There is also a portrait 

 and obituary notice of Prof. Leslie A. Lee, 

 late president of the society. — W. S. 



Wilson Bulletin. — -In the September 

 number of the 'Bulletin,' Taverner and 

 and Swales continue their valuable 'Birds 

 of Point Pelee.' F. L. Burns reprints the 

 preface to the fourth volume of Wilson's 

 Ornithology, containing his list of birds 

 breeding at Bartram's Garden in 181 1, 

 and compares it with his own list at Ber- 

 wyn, not many miles away. Lynd Jones 

 discusses the spring migration of 1907, 

 and presents some additional lists of 

 'Birds from a Car Window.' A briefly 

 annotated list of birds of western Lyman 

 county, South Dakota, by A. Larson, com- 

 pletes the number. 



For December, Lynd Jones has an 

 illustrated paper on 'June Birds of the 

 Washington Coast, ' while there is a large 

 installment of the Point Pelee list, and 

 papers by J. H. Fleming on 'Birds of 

 Hawkins County, Tennessee' and by 

 F. L. Burns on 'The Ruffed Grouse in 

 Pennsylvania.' 



The March, 1908, number comes to 

 hand with a new cover representing Wil- 

 son's Warbler, while the main article is by 

 F. L. Burns, discussing at length the so- 

 called Wilson-Audubon Controversy. 



Lynd Jones continues his 'Birds of the 

 Washington Coast,' and John F. Ferry 

 presents a detailed study of the phenome- 

 nal spring migration of 1907, as observed 



in the vicinity of Chicago. Other papers 

 are on 'A Migration Flight of Purple 

 Martins in Michigan in the Summer of 

 1905,' by Frank Smith, 'The Acquaint- 

 ance of Individual Birds,' by W. E. Saud- 

 ers, and 'Summer Birds of Lake Geneva, 

 Wis.,' by B. H. Wilson.— W. S. 



Book News 



The Annual Report of the Superintend- 

 ent of the Yellowstone Park for 1907 con- 

 tains (pages 15-23) "Notes on the Summer 

 Birds" of the Park, by T. S. Palmer, in 

 which seventy-four species are listed, 

 largely as a result of observations made 

 from August 7 to 21, and September 9 to 

 14, 1908. 



Number three of Volume I of the 

 ornithological publications of the Field 

 Museum is a 'Catalogue of a Collection 

 of Birds from Guatemala, ' by Ned Dear- 

 born. The paper is based mainly on Dr. 

 Dearborn's work in Guatemala from Janu- 

 ary 4 to April 15, 1906, and contains notes 

 on 305 species of birds. 



DeWolfe & Fiske Co., of Boston, 

 announce the publication in two volumes, 

 the first of which is ready, of a work on 

 the Birds of Guiana, by Frederick Paul 

 Penard and Arthur Philip Penard. The 

 work, which is written in Dutch, treats 

 of about 1,000 species. 



In 'The Century' for June, Gerald 

 H. Thayer presents an article entitled 

 'The Concealing Coloration of Animals,' 

 in which we have a concise general state- 

 ment of the discoveries of Abbott H. 

 Thayer in regard to this subject. We 

 understand that the Macmillan Company 

 has in press a volume in which Mr. 

 Thayer's work is fully elaborated, but, 

 while awaiting its appearance, the ' Cen- 

 tury' article should be read as an intro- 

 duction to a book which is certain to arouse 

 much interest among students of animal 

 life. July 10, Mr. Thayer demonstrated 

 some of the results of his studies before 

 the Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. 



