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joy a couple of technical papers, one by 

 Witmer Stone on ' The Generic Names of 

 the North American Owls ' and one by 

 L. M. Loomis on ' Recognition of Geo- 

 graphical Variation in Nomenclature.' 



Among notes, we find one by J. H. Clark 

 on 'A Much-Mated House Sparrow,' which 

 deals a sad blow to ihe general belief in the 

 devotion of mated birds. It is to be hoped 

 it is only another instance of the English 

 Sparrow's general depravity as he becomes 

 more civilized. 



A new ' new edition ' of ' Nuttall ' is re- 

 viewed. The collection of annotated ex- 

 cerpts that modern publishers offer would 

 scarcely be recognized by Nuttall as his 

 handiwork, and the modernizing is to be 

 deprecated. A twelfth supplement to the 

 harried Check-List occupies the final pages. 

 In justice to myself as a member of the ap- 

 proving committee, I may be permitted to 

 say that I do not believe in many of the ac- 

 cepted changes, especially the multiplication 

 of genera. Similarities rather than differ- 

 ences should be the basis for genera, other- 

 wise the systematist will soon have each 

 species in a genus by itself.— J. D., Jr. 



The Condor.— The July number of ' The 

 Condor' contains a report of the 'Joint 

 Meeting of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union and the Cooper Ornithological Club 

 of California,' with three of the papers 

 which were presented on that occasion, 

 namely: 'Call Notes of the Bush-Tit,' by 

 Grinnell ; ' Notes on the Bird Conditions of 

 the Fresno District,' by Miller, and the 

 ' Cassin Auklet \Ptychoramphus aleuticus)' 

 on Santa Barbara Island, by Robertson. 

 Readers will find in these articles an epit- 

 ome of the meeting, but the pleasure of 

 seeing the many beautiful lantern slides, 

 and of personal contact with the forty or 

 fifty members present on that enjoyable 

 occasion, can only be reproduced in the 

 memories of those who were fortunate 

 enough to attend the tenth anniversary meet- 

 ing of the Cooper Club. 



Among the other articles in this number 

 may be mentioned Bailey's notes on 'The 

 White-necked Raven ' in western Texas, 

 Cary's ' Morning with the Birds of Juan 

 Vinas, Costa Rica,' and Bohlman's 'Nest- 



ing Habits of the Shufeldt Junco,' near 

 Portland, Oregon, — each illustrated with 

 one or two half-tones. Mailliard contrib- 

 utes some ' Notes from Santa Barbara, 

 California,' in which he calls attention to 

 the early molting of birds in that locality; 

 Stephens concludes his ' Bird Notes from 

 Eastern California and Western Arizona,' 

 and Fowler adds some ' Stray Notes from 

 Southern Arizona,' on the Elf Owl, Ari- 

 zona Woodpecker, Rivoli and White-eared 

 Hummingbirds. 



Two of the illustrations deserve special 

 mention : The frontispiece, which is a repro- 

 duction of one of Bohlman's superb photo- 

 graphs, showing the nest of the Shufeldt 

 Junco in situ; and the portrait of Dr. Ed- 

 gar A. Mearns, which forms the third in- 

 stalment in the series of portraits of eastern 

 ornithologists. — T. S. P. 



The Wilson Bulletin. — No. 4.3 of 'The 

 Wilson Bulletin ' contains the following 

 articles: 'All Day with the Birds,' and 

 'Brewster Warbler in Ohio,' by Lynds 

 Jones; ' Birds of DeKalb County, Georgia, ' 

 by R. W. Smith; ' Some Birds of Florida,' 

 by J. M. Keck, and ' The Nest of the 

 Orchard Oriole,' by R. W. Shufeldt. The 

 general notes include observations on ' Un- 

 usual Birds at Oberlin, Ohio,' by Lynds 

 Jones ; ' Notes from Dutchess County, New 

 York,' by M. S. Crosby, and 'Mountain 

 Bluebirds Increasing in Boulder, Colorado,' 

 by Julius Henderson. 



On a certain day in May each year since 

 1898, Lynds Jones has made an effort to 

 secure the highest daily record of species 

 for the season, and in ' All Day with the 

 Birds ' he has given several interesting 

 tables, so arranged as to show on how 

 many occasions the species were observed. 

 Seventy-four species out of a possible one 

 hundred and thirteen were seen on each year. 

 We are always glad to see local lisis, as they 

 give an insight into the avifauna of definite 

 regions and assist materially in the work in 

 geographic distribution. In his observations 

 on four male Brewster Warblers, Lynds 

 Jones found that the songs had considerable 

 range and varied from the almost typical 

 notes of the Blue- winged Warbler to those 

 of the Golden - winged Warbler. This 



