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birds, and ‘Notes on the Florida Gallinule 
(Gallinula galeata) in Philadelphia County, 
Pa.’ by Richard F. Miller, shows the 
difficulties with which nesting birds have 
to cope, as their haunts are encroached 
upon by the advance of civilization. 
An article on “Birds Observed in Sas- 
katchewan during the summer of 1909,’ 
by the late Mr. John F. Ferry, is a well 
illustrated and carefully annotated list of 
over one hundred of the species found on 
the prairies of western Canada. Other 
lists are “Notes on Some of the Rarer Birds 
of Washtenaw County, Michigan,’ by 
Messrs. N. A. Wood and A. D. Tinker; 
“Bird Notes from Salida, Chafee County, 
Colorado,’ by Edward B. Warren, and ‘A 
List of Birds observed at Ashland, Vir- 
ginia,’ by Mr. C. G. Embody. An ‘Appar- 
ently New Species of Carrion Hawk of the 
Genus [bycter,’ from Patagonia, is described 
by Mr. W. E. D. Scott. 
In the department of ‘General Notes’ 
will be found a number of records of 
unusual interest, and the reviews concern 
some important books. A list of the 
members of the A. O. U. concludes this 
number, and it may be well to call the 
attention of those who bind their ‘Auks’ to 
the fact that this list takes the place of the 
one that used to appear in the October 
number.—J. D., Jr. 
THE Conpor.—Vol. XII of ‘The Con- 
dor’ opens with the fourth part of Finley’s 
“Life History of the California Condor,’ 
the first instalment of which appearcd 
in the number for November, 1906. The 
present part, illustrated with six excellent 
half-tones, deals with the habits of the 
young bird in captivity. The ‘Fossil Birds 
from the Quaternary of Southern Cali- 
fornia,’ in the Museum of the University 
of California, are briefly described by 
Loye Holmes Miller, who calls attention 
to the preponderance of raptorial birds 
and the presence of a true peacock, a 
black vulture, and a peculiar raptorial 
genus, Zeratornis, represented by a form 
much larger than any flying birds of the 
present time. Odlogy receives due atten- 
tion in Ingersoll’s illustrated account of 
Bird - Lore 
‘Abnormal Birds’ Eggs,’ and Ray’s ‘De- 
fense of Odlogy.’ Pemberton adds ‘Some 
Bird Notes from Ventura County,’ relating 
to eight species, and Warren contributes 
an extended paper on ‘Some Central 
Colorado Bird Notes’ on 127 species: 
This last paper is a welcome change from 
the others in being free from the peculiari- 
ties of spelling which mar so many pages 
of the magazine, a concession for which 
the editor considers an apology necessary. 
‘For the Better Determination of Agelazus 
tricolor’ Mailliard gives a few notes and 
illustrations of wings, and for the benefit 
of students of distribution Grinnell pub- 
lishes some ‘Miscellaneous Records from 
Alaska’ on 35 species. 
Of the half-dozen articles in the March 
number,three are deyoted to nesting habits. 
Peck describes ‘The Effect of Natural 
Enemies on the Nesting Habits of Some 
British Honduras Birds;’ Willard writes 
of the ‘Nesting of the Western Evening 
Grosbeak’ in the Huachuca Mountains, 
Arizona, and Pingree tells briefly of “The 
Nesting of the Frazar Oyster-catcher, in 
1909, on the Tres Marias Islands, Jalisco, 
Mexico.’ ‘The Status of the California 
Bicolored Blackbird’ is discussed by 
Mailliard; ‘The Habits of the Black-Capt 
Vireo’ in Blaine County, Oklahoma, are 
described by Bunker, and an interesting 
‘Glimpse of Bird Life on the West Coast 
of Mexico,’ near San Blas, is given by 
Lamb. 
But the most striking feature in these 
two numbers is the rapid molt which cer- 
tain bird names are undergoing as a result 
of the policy on which “The Condor’ has 
‘embarkt.’ Eight new bob-tailed names 
are suddenly introduced: The Russet- 
backt (p. 16) and Olive-backt Thrushes 
(p. 43), the Black-capt Vireo (p. 70), 
the White-rumpt Swallow (p. 78), the 
Gray Ruft Grouse (p. 42), the Black- 
neckt Stilt (p. 76), and the Ring-neckt 
Duck (p. 79). “Douts’ may well be ‘ex- 
prest? whether such ‘markt’ editorial 
idiosyncrasies do more than add a pecu- 
liar grotesqueness from which both authors 
and readers would gladly be spared, if 
their wishes were consulted.—T. S. P. - 
