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The Condor. — The July and Septem- 

 ber numbers of 'The Condor' still await 

 notice. The former, an unusually large 

 number, is chiefly made up of local lists, 

 which include Mailliard's 'Sierra Forms 

 on the Coast of Sonoma county, Cali- 

 fornia,' Willett's 'Summer Birds of the 

 Upper Salinas Valley,' Gilman's 'Birds 

 on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico' 

 and 'Rockwell's Annotated List of the 

 Birds of Mesa County, Colorado.' The 

 last paper, containing 28 pages illustrated 

 with two maps and nine photographs, is a 

 model of its kind. It contains notes on 199 

 species and is probably the most complete 

 local list for any part of western Colorado. 

 Other articles are: Dagget's 'Bit of Early 

 California Natural History' from Truster's 

 'Habitable World Described' 1788-1795; 

 Dixon's 'Field Notes from Alaska,' giving 

 an account of the work of one of the parties 

 of the Alexander Expedition; and Metz's 

 'Nesting of the Rocky Mountain Screech 

 Owl in Wyoming,' presumably near 

 Sheridan in the northern part of the 

 state. 



The September number has but 28 

 pages — no more than the longest article 

 in the preceding number — but it contains 

 several papers on birds of little -known 

 areas in California. These papers are: 

 Grinnell's 'Birds of a Voyage on Salton 

 Sea,' Linton's 'Notes from Buena Vista 

 Lake,' and Goldman's 'Summer Birds 

 of the Tulare Lake Region.' The forma- 

 tion of the Salton Sea was quickly fol- 

 lowed by an influx of water birds of various 

 kinds, and here was found, this year," the 

 southernmost recorded nesting colony of 

 the American White Pelican." The most 

 southern point at which the species has 

 hitherto been known to breed was at 

 Buena Vista Lake in San Joaquin Valley. 

 Among the southern breeding records 

 given by Goldman for Tulare Lake may 

 be noted those of the White Pelican, 

 Green-winged Teal, Shoveller and Pintail. 

 The notes on the California Sage Sparrow 

 and Leconte Thrasher contains the first 

 records of the breeding of these species at 

 this locality. Among the shorter articles 

 may be mentioned Bowles 'Notes on a 



Few Summer Birds of Lake Chelan, Wash- 

 ington,' and Richard's description of 'An 

 Unusual Nesting Locality for the Rocky 

 Mountain Nuthatch,' near Littleton, Colo- 

 rado, ten miles south of Denver, on the 

 south branch of the Platte River, at an 

 altitude of 5,370 feet. Dixon's account of 

 a 'Family of Young Duck Hawks' on Ad- 

 miralty Island, Alaska, and Willard's 

 brief 'Huachuca Notes' complete the list 

 of papers. The number also contains a 

 'Directory of the Cooper Ornithological 

 Club' including the names and addresses 

 of two honorary and 222 active members. 

 The deceased members now number seven- 

 teen.— T. S. P. 



Book News 



'Notes on the Winter Birds of Northern 

 Louisiana' (Proceedings Biological Society, 

 XXI, pp. 1 19-124) is a briefly annotated 

 list of birds observed by Arthur H. Howell 

 between January 6 and February 7, 1908. 

 Skillful work in field and study result in 

 the addition of seven species and sub- 

 species to Beyer's list of Lousiana birds. 



.Leaflets Nos. 1 and 2 issued by the Ore- 

 gon State Biologist are by William L. 

 Finley and deal in a practical way with 

 the economic value of birds. Leaflet No. 1 

 discusses this subject in a general way, 

 while in No. 2, which is well illustrated 

 certain common Oregon birds are treated 

 at length. It is to be hoped that the leaf- 

 lets will be issued in sufficiently large edi- 

 tions to meet the demand which will 

 undoubtedly arise for them. 



Miss Ella Gilbert Ives, whose stories 

 and poems of birds are familiar to readers 

 of Bird-Lore has issued through the 

 Arckelyan Press of Boston a dainty little 

 volume Out-Door Music — Songs of Birds, 

 Trees, Flowers, etc. Many of the poems 

 such as Robin's Mate, The Little Minister, 

 The Goldfinch and Robin's Proclamation, 

 should find their place upon Audubon 

 Society programs, while the book will 

 make a pretty Christmas gift for a bird- 

 lover. 



