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Nevertheless I obtained about twenty sets. 
Incubation was fresh to almost complete. 
These nests, some of them massive struc- 
tures, were situated at elevations of from 
ten to twenty feet in hackberry and knock- 
away trees. Revisited this locality first 
week in April and found several fresh sets. 
“In Aransas County there is the largest 
heronry that I have ever seen; I am confi- 
dent that within its boundaries there are 
several thousand nests. It is situated in 
live oak brush near the coast. Nests about 
seven to fifteen feet up. This heronry is 
deserted this year. The Great Blue Heron 
breeds in isolated pairs in the bays, making 
its nest on yucca growing on the islands, 
also sometimes in prairie ‘mottes.’ ’’ 
J. K. STRECKER, JR. 
Waco, Texas. 
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In Mexican Waters. 
SUCCESS OF THE ANTHONY-KAEDING- 
MCGREGOR EXPEDITION. 
Mr. Charles D. Kaeding of San Francisco 
very kindly relieved the mind of the N1p's 
editor regarding the safety of the Anthony- 
Kaeding-McGregor party in Mexican wat- 
ers, and gives us the following very inter- 
esting extracts from letters received from 
H. B. Kaeding, sent back by schooners 
passed at sea. 
Writing from San Martin’s Island on 
March 13, hesays: ‘‘Our first stop was at 
Podos Santos Island, but we didn’t get 
anything very rare. The first take I made 
was a set of three and both parents of Bald 
Eagle. and then I laid in a basket full of 
Heerman’s Gulls, Black Turnstones, Black 
and Frazar’s Oyster-catchers. I got fifteen 
Black Turnstones with one shot. 
**Reached San Martin’s yesterday morn- 
ing and found about the same birds, be- 
sides Ospreys, ete. Took a few sets, six of 
them Ospreys. There being no trees they 
nest on the ground every hundred yards or 
so, but it is too early. There are two Pel- 
ican rookeries here, one of them one and a 
half miles long by a mile broad, and you 
can't lay down a six-foot stick anywhere 
without striking a nest or two.’’ 
Under date of April 10, writing from 
Natividad Island, he says: ‘‘Today I col- 
lected over a hundred sets with parents of 
Black-vented Shearwater, the eggs hereto- 
fore-unknown.’’ 
iblientioni 
“BIRDS OF CoLORADO,” by W. W. Cooke, 
Bul. No. 37, State Agricultural College; 
141 pp.; From the Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado. A 
most useful work, and faultlessly printed, 
is this list by Professor Cook, with very 
complete annotations, recording 360 species 
known to occur in the state. The classifi- 
cation of Colorado birds is summarized 
elaborately, noting 87 residents, 228 sum- 
mer residents (separated into five divisions 
as to breeding ranges), 22 rare or accidental 
visitants, etc. A complete bibliography is 
given, as well as a history of Colorado Or- 
nithology. ‘The present author has added 
Ig species to the state list. 
Very interesting to Oologists are the 
notes given of the breeding time of many 
species; where are located the centers of 
abundance, and the number of broods 
raised. A complete index concludes this 
excellent work, which will be welcomed by 
all Ornitologists. It may be obtained free 
of charge by addressing the Director of the 
Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado. 
“THE OsprREyY’’ looks very neat in a new 
face of smaller type, Pains are evidently 
not spared in making the new journal a gem 
typographically. Wetrust it may meet with 
the success which such a display of enter- 
prise deserves. 
SS 
CHARLES S. BuTTEeRS of Haverhill, Mass., has fav- 
ored us with a paper on the Red-shouldered Hawk, 
with a unique photograph of nest and eggs 77 sztu. 
“THE STORY OF THE FARALLONES’’ has made a 
big ‘‘hit,” replete as it is with matter of live interest to 
every Ornithologist and Oologist. The collection of 
unusually good photographs it contains should be alone 
worth the price. 
THE HIGH standard of the NIDOLoGIsT was declared 
by many a sufficient guarantee of the value and attract- 
iveness of ‘‘The Story of the Farallones,’”’ and now that 
the pretty brochure is out, no one, we are assured, can 
feel that his confidence was misplaced. The editor 
appreciates the many complimentary things said of the 
“Story’’ and pictures. 
EXCUSE my tardiness in acknowledging the receipt 
of that dainty booklet, ‘‘The Story of the Farallones.’, 
I am sure you must feel much pleasure in getting out 
so neat a bit of artistic work, and that feeling must be 
shared by every lover of nature who sees it. 
J. C. GALLoway, 
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