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Last, but not least in historical import- 
ance, is Mr. J. H. Sage’s annual report on 
the ‘Twenty-seventh Stated Meeting of the 
American Ornithologists’ Union.’ There 
are also many notes and reviews of im- 
portance.—J. D., Jr. 
THE Conpor.—Nine articles, all but 
two brief, and five of them illustrated, 
make up the varied contents of the No- 
vember number of “Lhe Condor.’ In 
‘Some Bird Accidents,’ Finley gives an 
account of half a dozen fatalities that 
have come under his notice, and references 
to several described by other observers. 
Willet’s ‘Bird Notes from the Coast of 
San Luis Obispo County’ (Cal.), contains 
some interesting facts regarding the breed- 
ing of sea birds. In speaking of the Brandt 
Cormorants (Phalacrocorox penicillatus) 
he says: ‘We concluded that the moss 
composing the lining of the nests is all 
brought up from deep water, as the birds 
could be seen energetically diving for it 
in the deeper water, although it was plenti- 
ful in the shallows and on the rocks.” 
Dixon’s ‘Life History of the Northern 
Bald Eagle,’ the principal paper in this 
number, is illustrated with two photo- 
graphs of nests and two of young birds 
found on Hawkins and Admiralty Islands, 
Alaska. The Hawkins Island nest mea- 
sured 8 by ro feet outside, with a depth of 
4 feet and a nest cavity 12 inches across 
and 4 inches deep. Under the title of “The 
Flammulated Screech Owl,’ Willard gives 
an account of two nests found in the Hua- 
chuca Mountains, Ariz., in May, 1909, and 
incidentally calls attention to the fact that 
the iris in this species is dark chocolate- 
brown, instead of yellow, as in other Owls. 
In ‘Further Notes from San Clemente 
Island,’ Linton adds twenty-six species 
to his list published in March, 1908; and 
in ‘A Collection of Birds from Forty-mile, 
Yukon Territory,’ Grinnell contributes 
brief notes on fifty-nine species. Ray 
gives a short account of ‘Some Sierran 
Nests of the Brewer Blackbird,’ illustrated 
by two photographs of a nest built on a 
pile in a wharf, at Bijou, on Lake Tahoe. 
“The Nesting of the Broad-tailed Hum- 
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mingbird’ on Squaw Creek, Gallatin county, 
Montana, is briefly described by Saunders 
from a nest containing two well-incubated 
eggs, found June 28, 1909. Colorado 
ornithologists will be interested in Burnett’s 
account of the life and work of ‘An Early 
Colorado Ornithologist, William G. Smith,’ 
1841-1900. The index with which the 
number concludes shows that volume XI, 
for 1909, contains 224 pages.—T. S. P. 
Book News 
We have received from the Delaware 
Valley Ornithological Club, with a request 
that it be mot reviewed, a ‘Souvenir’ book- 
let commemorating the Club’s twentieth 
birthday. While this attractive and excep- 
tionally interesting publication invites a 
more extended notice than is usually ac- 
corded more weighty documents, we resist 
the temptation to violate the confidence of 
the Club. But at least we may say that 
the contents of this pamphlet gives evi- 
dence of a good fellowship, which, in con- 
nection with the fact that it had the right 
kind of Stone in its foundation, goes far 
toward explaining the success of the D. V. 
O. C. 
In his ‘Analysis of Nebraska’s Bird 
Fauna,’ (Proc. Neb. Orn. Union, IV, 2, 
Pp. 25-55, ills. i- VI), Dr. R. H. Wolcott 
shows that the state may be divided into 
five natural regions; their names, with 
the number of summer resident birds 
found in each are as follows: The Mis- 
souri Region, 144; Prairie Region, 132; 
Sand-Hill Region, 99; Plains Region, 
104; Pine Ridge Region, 67. The paper is 
well illustrated by a colored map, showing 
the areas of each region and by photo- 
graphs of characteristic scenery. 
North American Fauna, No. 30, by 
Wilfred H. Osgood, contains lists of the 
‘Birds of East Central Alaska’ (pp. 33-44), 
of the “Birds of the Ogilvie Range’ (pp- 
58-65), and of the ‘Birds of the Mac- 
millan region’ (pp. 84-92). Aside from 
remarks on distribution, the annotations 
contain much of general interest in regard 
to the habits of the species treated. 
