108 The Wilson Bulletin. 



Our former Secretary, J. "Warren Jacobs, Waynesburg, Pa., has 

 about ready for mailing a neat illustrated booklet giving the re- 

 sults of six years' observation of his own fine colony of Purple 

 Martins. We are pleased to note in a Waynesburg newspaper of 

 recent date, editorial comments on the arrest and punishment of 

 thoughtless "sportsmen" for shooting birds out of this colony. 



Rev. J. Hibbert Langille, our Honorary member at Kensing- 

 ton, Md., is putting a revised edition of his "Our Birds in their 

 Haunts" into the schools of that county. This book, in the orig- 

 inal edition, was the second book on birds which the writer pur- 

 chased, the first being Coues's "Key." "Our Birds in their 

 Haunts" has always possessed the charm of bringing one closer 

 to the birds as we actually find them than any other book among 

 the many which now call for our attention. We are impressed 

 with the feeling that the author has not simply gone into the 

 fields and woods in search of the birds at all seasons and under 

 all conditions, but has actually written on the spot much of what 

 has gone into his book. We are glad that the school children 

 are to be introduced to the birds by means of this book in its re- 

 vised form. 



Rev. W. Leon Dawson, of Columbus, Ohio, has temporarily 

 laid down his ministerial work for the purpose of writing a book 

 on the Birds of Ohio. The book will contain 80 colored plates 

 and 200 half-tone reproductions of photographs. It will be in the 

 popular scientific style, with full descriptions of the plumages 

 and habits of every bird known to occur in the state (which in- 

 cludes 322 species to date), treated in 500 pages, of large clear type. 

 It is to be exclusively a subscription book and will not be put 

 upon the open market. The introduction and analytical and ar- 

 tificial keys will be written by the editor of the Bulletin. In 

 preparation for this work Mr. Dawson and the writer spent ten 

 days together in the southeastern part of the state, along the 

 course of the Ohio River, studying the birds and the peculiar 

 conditions of topography of the region, and taking photographs 

 of typical nesting-places of the birds which are found there in 

 summer. Two half-days spent at McConnellsville with Messrs. 

 C. H. Morris and E. J. Arrick were among the most enjoyable of 

 the trip. Ohio lies so nearly in the transition region between the 

 extreme east and middle west that its bird life is more than 

 usually interesting. The plan of the Birds of Ohio contemplates 

 making it by far the best book ever published on the birds of any 

 state. The author's fitness for such an undertaking cannot be 

 questioned. 



