Book News and Reviews 



song variation apparently did not bear any 

 relation to the color-phase of the individuals. 

 —A. K. F. 



The Osprey. — We have been reliably 

 informed that the editor of ' The Osprey ' 

 is perfectly willing to furnish financial sup- 

 port for resuming publication, providing he 

 can find some one among the younger orni- 

 thologists who has time and ability to take 

 complete charge of the management, and 

 who will attend to the various details, the 

 proper accomplishment of which are most 

 essential to the production of a progressive 

 and up-to-date magazine. We smcerely 

 hope that Dr. Gill will be successful in 

 securing an able assistant, so that ' The Os- 

 prey ' may become a regular visitor once 

 more. — A. K. F. 



Book News 

 We have received no news concerning 

 the proposed publication this fall of the re- 

 vised edition of Dr. Coues' ' Key to North 

 American Birds.' It is to be hoped that 

 those in charge of the passage of this work 

 through the press will see that the many 

 changes in the nomenclature of North 

 American birds which have been made since 

 the manuscript was completed, some four 

 years ago, will be incorporated in its pages. 

 ' The Atlantic Slope Naturalist ' is 

 a recently-established i6-page bimonthly, 

 edited and published by W. E. Rotzell, 

 M D., at Narbeth, Pa. The third num- 

 ber (July and August, 1903 ) contains sev- 

 eral articles on birds of more than usual 

 interest, including a record by Ernest H. 

 Short of the breeding of the Connecticut 

 Warbler in Monroe county, New York; 

 and another, by Mark L. C. Wilde, of the 

 breeding of the Pileated Woodpecker in 

 Cape May county. New Jersey, in 1893. 



In ' Science ' for August 14, 1903, Mr. 

 Charles C. Adams, Curator of the Museum 

 of the University of Michigan, announces 

 the discovery by N. A. Wood, in Oscoda 

 county, Michigan, of the first known nest 

 of Kirtland's Warbler. Mr. Wood found 

 two nests, and evidently reached the south- 

 ern limit of this rare Warbler's breeding 

 range. We are promised a full report of 

 this important piece of field-work later. 



'Our Animal Friends' enters its thirty- 

 first volume with the issue of its September 

 number, which appears in a new and greatly 

 improved form. 



Educational Leaflet, No. 5, of the 

 National Committee of Audubon Societies 

 is by William Dutcher, and treats of the 

 economic status of the Flicker. Copies of 

 this leaflet may be obtained at cost from the 

 author, at 525 Manhattan Avenue, New 

 York City. 



The Zoological Quarterly Bulletin of the 

 Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 

 Vol. I, No. 2, contains 'An Analytic Key 

 for the Determination of the Families of 

 Pennsylvanian Birds ' and the first part of a 

 ' General Discussion of Our Native Birds 

 by Orders and Families,' byH. A. Surface. 

 Copies of this Bulletin may be had by 

 applying to the author, at Harrisburg, 

 Pennsylvania. 



The Forest, Fish and Game Commission 

 of the state of New York has issued, in ad- 

 vance of its appearance in the annual report 

 of the commission, a pamphlet of some sixty 

 quarto pages, entitled ' The Economic Value 

 of Birds to the State.' The text was com- 

 piled by Frank M. Chapman; the illustra- 

 tions, twelve in number, are by Louis 

 Agassiz Fuertes, and are doubtless the most 

 beautiful colored plates of birds which have 

 been published in this country. 



' The Ottawa Naturalist ' for July, 

 1903, contains the third paper in a valuable 

 series on the ' Nesting of some Canadian 

 Warblers,' by William F. Kells. 



'The Emu,' official organ of the Aus- 

 tralasian Ornithologists' Union, continues 

 to grow in size and in excellence; an indica- 

 tion, no doubt, of increasing interest in 

 ornithology in the antipodes. The July, 

 1903, issue, the first number of the third 

 volume, contains 80 pages of text and sev- 

 eral excellent half-tones, one of which, of 

 a colony of Sooty Terns, we believe shows 

 more birds than we have ever seen before 

 in one photograph. 



' The Emu ' is edited by A. J. Campbell 

 and H. Kendall, of Melbourne, and is 

 published at four shillings per copy. 



