30 The Wilson Bulletin. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



The [following names are proposed for active membership in 

 the Wilson Chapter. Adverse votes should be sent to the Secre- 

 tary, John W. Daniel, Jr., 3146 Q street, Washington, D. C: 



R. L. Baird, Oberlin, O. 



Alex. W. Blain, Jr., 131 Elmwood avenue, Detroit, Mich. 



Frank Bruen, 264 Main street, Bristol, Ct. 



Homer L. Bigelow, 330 Commonwealth avenue, Boston, Mass. 



LEAST TERNS— A CORRECTION 



In the W. O. C. Bulletin, No. 36, the writer stated that some 

 least terns (S. antillarum) "were found breeding in Martha's Vine- 

 yard Island, near West Chop, by Dr. H. Smith, late in July." 

 This information came to me through a man who was supposed 

 to have seen the terns. Later in the summer, after I had sent 

 the above mentioned note to the publisher of the Bulletin, I 

 talked to Dr. Smith himself about the terns, and learned that the 

 breeding place was not near West Chop, but on the farther side 

 of Martha's Vinevard, near Katama. R. M. Strong. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Stories of Bird Life. By T. Gilbert Pearson. 



This book is brimful of interesting sketches of birds, many of 

 which have been individualized, as the Arredondo Sparrow 

 Hawk, Ruffle-breast (Logger-head Shrike), Bibneck, the Plo- 

 ver, etc. While primarily for the young student, it is written 

 in such a manly, sympathetic and accurate vein, without the 

 least trace of offensive sentimentalism, as to be profitable and 

 pleasant reading for all. It is emphatically the better sort of 

 popular ornithological literature. The reader might, perhaps, 

 wish that the perpetrators of the indiscriminate slaughter on 

 the college campus and elsewhere, as so feelingly portrayed by 

 the author in the closing chapter, might be turned over to the 

 tender mercies of the Audubon Society. Professor Pearson per- 

 mits the reader to draw his own inference after submitting the 

 facts. The text is charmingly illustrated by John L. Ridgway 

 and Miss Elsie Weatherly.— F. L. B. 



