202 
Carolina birds, we have, in addition to the 
309 species recorded from the coast region, 
a further list of 28 species from the interior 
of the state, making 337 the total for 
South Carolina. 
Possibly no other person in this country 
—or for that matter, any country—has 
given more time to collecting and obsery- 
ing the bird-life of a comparatively 
limited area during the past quarter of 
a century than has Mr. Wayne. Further- 
more, he has been exceptionally well 
situated to add to our knowledge of 
birds. Not only is his region possessed 
of unusual historic and faunal interest for 
the student of birds, but during the period 
under consideration he has been almost 
the only worker in it. His book, therefore, 
is an exceptionally welcome addition to 
the literature of birds. Without speculat- 
ing on the results which might have been 
achieved by twenty-five years’ definitely 
directed attention to biographical prob- 
lems, rather than to collecting, recording 
and incidental observing, we have here an 
authoritative exposition of the status of 
bird-life on the coast of South Carolina, 
by a person whose experience has thor- 
oughly qualified him to present it. The 
annotations average about two-thirds of a 
page for each species, and include re- 
marks on numerical abundance, haunts, 
times of occurrence, breeding-dates, size 
and color of the eggs, number of broods, 
and various comments usually to the 
point and of value. Mr. Wayne has a 
keen scent for the errors of other authors 
who directly or indirectly have written 
of the birds of what may in truth be called 
his region, and devotes no small part 
of his space to their correction. In view 
of his generally critical and discriminating 
attitude, it is, therefore, surprising to find 
that he endorses the theory that the 
extinction of the Passenger Pigeon (Ecto- 
pistes) is in part due to its having been 
“drowned-in multitudes in the Gulf of 
Mexico during migrations.” 
Dr. Rea gives an excellent historical 
introduction, and there is a useful bibliog- 
raphy, forming in all the most note- 
worthy book on birds which has been 
Bird - 
Lore 
published in any Austroriparian state.— 
F. M. C. 
THe MetHops AND USES OF A RESEARCH 
Musreum. By JosrepH GRINNELL. Pop- 
ular Science Monthly, August, ro1o, 
163-160. 
Developed on the lines laid down by 
Mr. Grinnell in the present paper, it is clear 
that the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 
of the University of California, of which 
he is Director, will become a model in- 
stitution. He very properly, in our opinion, 
selects for his special field the Pacific 
Coast. Here, as he says, he has a practi- 
cally inexhaustible region, one, too, of 
exceptional interest, which he is more 
favorably situated to work than any 
other place, or than any other person not 
resident in it. 
Not only are specimens collected, but 
information in regard to them secured and ~ 
recorded with camera and pen, and these 
data are so filed that they may be as 
accessible as the specimens themselves. 
The Museum, then, will become a “Te- 
pository of facts,” and eventually will 
have a collection of the batrachians, rep- 
tiles, birds, and mammals of the area it 
covers so labeled that it will be an ade- 
quate representation of the conditions 
which existed when the collections were 
made.—F. M. C. 
ABRIDGED CHecKk-List or NortH AMERI- 
CAN Birps. New York City. American 
Ornithologists’ Union, 1910. 534x314 
inches, 77 printed—77 blank pages. 
This is a very convenient pocket list of 
the scientific and common names of 
North American birds, abridged from the 
third edition of the “Check-List’ of the 
American Ornithologists’ Union, which 
was reviewed in the last number of BIRD- 
Lorr. Every printed page is faced by a 
blank page for the reception of notes or 
comments. The list will, therefore, be of 
use in the study or in the field, or it may 
be employed for labeling. It can be pur- 
chased for twenty-five cents, postpaid, 
from J. Dwight, Jzr., Treas., American 
Ornithologists’ Union, American Museum 
of Natural History, New York City.— 
F. M. C. ; 
