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The Economic Value of Birds to the State. By Frank M. Chapman, 

 Associate Curator of Mammalogy and Ornithology in American Museum 

 of Natural History. (Published by the New York Forest, Fish and 

 Game Commission.) J. B. Lyon Co., Printers, iax>3-, 4 vo -> PP- I_ 66, 

 12 colored plates. 



Am. Ornithology III., Nos. io, n, 12, October, December, 1903. 



Atlantic Slope Naturalist I., Nos. 4, 5, September-October, November, 

 1903. 



Auk, The XX (n. s.) No. 4, October, 1903. 



Bird-Lore, V., Nos. 5, 6, September-October, November-December, 1903. 



Condor, V., Nos. 5, 6, September-October, November-December, 1903. 



Journal Maine Orn. Soc., V., No. 4, October, 1903. 



Oologist, XX., No. 1, November, 1903. 



Recreation, XIX., Nos. 4, 5, 6, October, November, December, 1903. 



Science (n. s.) XVII., Nos. 454-4^6, 1903- 



Warbler, I., Nos. 5, 6, September-October, November-December, 1903. 



Wilson Bulletin (No. 44), X., No. 3, September, 1903. 



Zoological Quarterly Bulletin, (Penna. Dept. Agric), Vol. I., No. 1-8, 

 May-December, 1903. 



The Oologist, which has not been issued for a number of months 

 has again resumed publication. Beginning with 1904 Mr. Earnest H. 

 Short, of Rochester, N. Y., will assume the editorship. Dr. Frank H. 

 Lattin will continue as publisher. 



Bird-Lore begins in the November-December issue a series of 

 colored plates illustrating all of the North American warblers. "The 

 text accompanying these beautiful pictures will be by Prof. W. W. 

 Cooke, from data in the possession of the Biological Survey at Wash- 

 ington, and will give the time of arrival and departure of the warblers 

 from hundreds of localities throughout their ranges." 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



To the Editor of the Bulletin: 



It may interest some of your readers to know that, according to a note in 

 a recent number of Nature (Vol. 68, p o:>8), the director of the station of 

 the German Ornithological Society at Rossitten, in Eastern Prussia, in order 

 to obtain information as to their migrations, proposes to attach metal rings, 

 each bearing a number and the date, to the legs of crows and rooks, which 

 will then be set at liberty. These birds are taken alive in numbers at Ros- 

 sitten during both migrations each year by means of nets. Notices have been 

 sent all over Germany requesting that if any of these birds are shot that the 

 feet, with the rings, be returned to Rossitten. In the March number of this 

 Bulletin (Vol. IV., No. 1, pp. 19-22) I published some "Suggestions for a 

 Method of Studying the Migrations of Birds," in which I advocated in the 

 main another method of studying migration, but also suggested tagging the 

 birds, apparently just as is now being done at Rossitten. It seems to me that 

 if there is any way in which live birds can be obtained in sufficient numbers 

 that it would be an excellent thing for individuals, or a committee, of "the 

 Michigan Ornithological Club to undertake similar work in this country. 



Leon J. Coi.e. 



