Publications Received - 355 



cept to make written, that which was iinwritteu under the common 

 law. 



Prepared and submitted by Messrs. Sumner C. Palmer, Attorney, 

 and Gerard Alan Abbott, investigator. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



FiA'e papers by Arthur A. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y. From Bird-Lore : 

 At Home with a Hell-Diver ; On the Trail of the Evening Grosbeak. 

 These are intimate studies of the species, profusely illustrated from 

 photographs. The Paramo of Santa Isabel, from " The American 

 Museum Journal." January, 1915, being an account of the author's 

 experiences in this interesting region in South America, illustrated 

 from photographs. Two from the Cornell Reading-Courses, Birds 

 in their Relation to Agriculture. These papers are in furtherance 

 of the commendable university extension work of the College of 

 Agriculture of Cornell University. Other state universities might 

 «'ell introduce more of this sort of extension work in part repay- 

 ment for the support given to these institution by the whole peo- 

 ple in taxes. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture publications : Some Common 

 Birds Useful to the Farmer, by F. E. L. Beal, Farmer's Bulletin 

 No. 630 ; Food of the Robins and Bluebirds of the United States, 

 by F. E. L. Beal, Professional Paper No. 171 ; Preliminary Census 

 of Birds of the I'nited States, by Wells W. Cooke, No. 187; Bird 

 Migration, by Wells W. Cooke, No. 185. These papers and many 

 others are continued evidence that our government officials are not 

 unmindful that the nation's welfare is boiind up in the intelligence 

 of the people who compose it. 



Several papers from the pen of Heniy Oldys, under the caption, 

 " Current Items of Interest,'' published by the Audubon Society of 

 the District of Columbia, deal with the general question of bird 

 conservation. 



A series of papers in the Outer's Book, by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, 

 "American Bob-whites and Quails," in the September, October, No- 

 vember, and December numbers. These papers deal with the de- 

 scriptions of all of the species, with some life history notes. 



Bird-Lore, August- September, 1914, to May-June, 1915. 



Bluebird, September, 1914, to June, 1915. 



Nature-Study Review, September. 1914, to May, 1915. 



The Oregon Sportsman. September, 1914, to May, 1915. 



The Condor, September-October, 1914, to May-June, 1915. 



The Yictoi'ian Naturalist, September, 1914, to April, 1915. 



The Guide to Nature. September, 1914, to May, 1915. 



The Oriole. June and August, 1914. 



