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as game, share all the benefits and none of 
the penalties of occupying game preserves. 
But even the game birds themselves 
benefit by the acts designed for their 
protection as well as their destruction. 
We recall a certain ducking club in the 
South whose members annually kill some 
2,500 Ducks, chiefly Mallards. The num- 
ber seems large, but the present head- 
keeper of the club informed the writer 
that prior to the formation of the pre- 
serve, he alone as a market gunner, shot 
as many birds each season as all the mem- 
bers and their guests now kill; and he was 
one among many market gunners, who shot 
over the what is now preserved ground. 
Dr. Palmer’s paper is, therefore, a 
timely contribution to a subject of in- 
terest not alone to sportsmen, but to 
bird-lovers as well.—F. M. C. 
Prants USEFUL TO ATTRACT BIRDS AND 
Protect Fruir. By W. L. McAtrr, 
Assistant, Biological Survey. Yearbook 
of Department of Agriculture for 1909, 
pp. 185-196. 
Mr. McAtee’s pamphlet gives exactly 
the information for which bird-lovers fre- 
quently ask. He tells us not only what 
plants and trees bear fruit which will at- 
tract birds, but also what species of plants 
will thrive best in certain regions. 
The subject has a wide practical bear- 
ing, for not only may we protect valuable 
fruits by supplying birds with other kinds 
of food, but an increased food-supply may, 
in many cases, mean an increase in the 
number of birds.—F. M. C. 
PROGRESS OF GAME PROTECTION IN 1909. 
By T. S. Patmrer, Henry Orpys and 
C. E. Brewster, Bureau of Biological 
Survey. Circular No. 73, May 21, rgto. 
TQ pages. 
This excellent annual summary of in- 
formation relating to the relative abun- 
dance of game, parks, refuges and reserva- 
tions, importation of foreign birds, admin- 
istration and enforcement of game laws 
legislation, during the past year shows, 
on the whole, a most encouraging condi- 
tion of affairs—F. M. C. 
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The Ornithological Magazines 
THE Conpor.—Of the five general 
articles in the May ‘Condor,’ A. P. 
Smith’s Miscellaneous Bird Notes from 
the Lower Rio Grande,’ which occupies 
nearly half of the number, is the longest 
and most important. Striking changes in 
the avifauna of this region have occurred 
in the last 30 years since the publication 
of the observations of Merrill and Sen- 
nett, among which are the practical dis- 
appearance, near Brownsville, of the Cha- 
chalaca, Wild Turkey, and Fulvous Tree 
Duck, and the appearance of the Chestnut- 
bellied Scaled Quail and several of the 
smaller birds. Pigeons and Doves are 
represented by six species and Orioles by 
five. 
Two illustrated papers deal with the 
nesting habits of species from widely 
separated regions, viz: ‘Notes on the 
Northwestern Crossbill,’ near Spokane, 
Washington, by J. W. Preston; and ‘The 
Olive Warbler (Dendroica olivacea) in 
Southern Arizona,’ by F. C. Willard. The 
other two papers are practically local 
lists. Ray’s account of a trip ‘From Tahoe 
to Washoe,’ in June, 1909, calls attention 
to the abundance at Washoe Lake, Nev., 
of the Killdeer and other birds usually 
found near marshes. Swarth’s ‘Miscellan- 
eous Records from Southern California 
and Arizona’ are based on specimens in 
the collections of F. O. Johnson and W. B. 
Judson of Los Angeles, recently acquired 
by the California Museum of Vertebrate 
Zoology. Among the ‘eastern’ birds re- 
corded are a Blue-winged Teal, obtained 
in the Los Angeles market, in January, 
1895, and a White-crowned sparrow 
(Zonotrichia leucophrys), collected at Palm 
Springs, Calif., April 26, 1889. Among the 
brief notes is a record, by F. C. Willard, 
of a Texas Kingfisher ‘Seen on a Day’s 
Outing in Southern Arizona’ on the San 
Pedro river, near Fairbanks, February 13, 
tg10. Although this species was reported 
by Dr. Coues from the Colorado river in 
1865, it does not seem to have been ob- 
served in Arizona since that time.—T.S.P. 
