Bird- Lore 



Book News 



In the future we propose to devote part 

 of Bird-Lore's increased space to brief 

 reviews of the contents of the leading 

 ornithological journals, and in carrying 

 out this plan we have been fortunate in 

 securing the assistance of ornithologists' 

 whose cooperation is an assurance of our 

 success in presenting a critical resume of 

 current literature relating to birds. Thus, 

 Dr. J. Dwight, Jr., will review 'The Auk,' 

 Dr. T. S. Palmer, 'The Condor,' and Dr. 

 A. K. Fisher, ' The Osprey ' and ' Wilson 

 Bulletin.' 



The book reviews will, of course, be 

 continued, and, so far as human nature 

 permits, they will be just and impartial, 

 according to the reviewer's light ; con- 

 demnation as well as praise being given 

 when it seems deserved. 



The attention of authors of local lists 

 and other papers on field ornithology is 

 called to our effort to place them in com- 

 munication with students to whom their 

 publications would be of especial assist- 

 ance (see page i8i). 



The Massachusetts Audubon Society 

 has issued a new edition of its attractive 

 Audubon Calendar, which contains twelve 

 colored plates of birds and short articles 

 on the months by as many well-known 

 writers. Copies of it may be obtained 

 for seventy-five cents from Harriet E. 

 Richards, Secretary, 234 Berkeley Street, 

 Boston. 



Bird photographs continue to occupy 

 an increasing space in current literature. 

 The New England Magazine contains an 

 article by Sarah J. Eddy entitled ' The 

 Robin's Nest,' illustrated by twenty-five 

 excellent photographs which graphically 

 depict the life of the nest from the period 

 of incubation until the young were old 

 enough to fly ; and the first number of 

 ' The World's Work ' publishes twenty- 

 three photographs by A. Radclyffe Dug- 

 more, several of which are by far the 

 best examples we have seen of this skil- 



ful photographer's work, if, indeed, they 

 are not the best things of the kind which 

 have been made in this country. Copies 

 of the first-named article may be ob- 

 tained for ten cents by addressing Box 

 9, Bristol Ferry, R. I. 



The program of papers presented at 

 the Eighteenth Congress of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union held in Cambridge, 

 Mass., November 12-15, included the 

 following twenty-seven titles : 



In Memoriam : Elliott Coues. D. G. Elliot. 

 In Memoriam : George B. Sennett. J. A. Allen. 

 The Sequence of Molts and Plumages of the 



LaridcE (Gulls and Terns). Jonathan 



Dwight, Jr. 

 A Study of the Genus Sturnella. Frank M. 



Chapman. 

 The Pterylosis of Podargus : with Further Notes 



on the Pterylography of the CapriviulgidcB . 



Hubert Lyman Clark. 

 The Molt of the North American Shore Birds 



. {Lunicolcs). Jonathan Dwight, Jr. 

 Nesting of the Yellow-headed Blackbird. Illus 



trated by lantern slides. Thomas S. Roberts. 

 Among the Terns at Muskeget, and on the New 



Jersey Coast. Illustrated by lantern slides. 



Wm. L. Baily. 

 The Season of igoo at the Magdalen Islands ; with 



remarks on Bird Photography. Illustrated by 



lantern slides. Herbert K. Job. 

 Field Notes on a few New England Birds. Illus- 

 trated by lantern slides. William Brewster. 

 Dooryard Ornithology. John N. Clark. 

 The "American Ornithologists' Union " of 1840-45. 



WiTMER Stone. 

 Notes on the Spring Migration (1900) at Scar- 

 borough, N. Y. Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 

 Exhibition of Unpublished Water-color Paintings 



of Birds. Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 

 Impressions of Some Hawaiian Birds. H. W. 



Henshaw. 

 A Visit to the Birthplace of Audubon. O. Wid- 



MANN. 



Natural History of the Alaskan Coast. Illustrated 

 by lantern slides. C. Hart Merriam. 



Notes on a Nest of Massachusetts Brown Creep- 

 ers. Illustrated by lantern slides. A. P. Chad- 



i bourne. 



Bird Studies with a Camera. Illustrated by lan- 

 tern slides. Frank M. Chapman. 



Exhibition of Lantern Slides of Birds' Nests and 

 Nesting Haunts, From Nature. Members. 



Aptosochromatism. A reply to Drs. Dwight and 

 Allen. Francis J. Birtwell. 



On the Breeding Habits of Leconte's Sparrow. P. 

 B. Peabody. 



On the Value of Careful Observations of Birds' 

 Habits. Edward H. Forbush. 



Breeding of the Cerulean Warbler near Baltimore. 

 Frank C. Kirkwood. 



Report of the A. O. U. Committee on the Protec- 

 tion of North American Birds. Witmer Stone. 



Results of Special Protection to Gulls and Terns 

 obtained through the Thayer Fund. Illustrated. 

 William Dutcher. 



The Enforcement of the Lacey Act. T. S. Palmer. 



