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perhaps the Pici and Macrochires, but that this is not always 
the case in short flights, when it takes a little time to get the 
legs into position. Prom Mr. B. S. Bowdish’s account of 
the reports from “ Andubon Wardens ” in protected areas we 
gather that public opinion in the U.S. is more favourable 
to bird-preservation than formerly, and that the numbers 
of birds are increasing in most places, despite a cold and 
stormy breeding-season, but that gunners are still trouble¬ 
some in Florida and minks destructive in Maine. Mr. A. H. 
Howell writes on the summer birds of Northern Georgia, 
where he acted in connexion with the Biological Survey, and 
visited the districts round Tate, Ellejay, and Young Harris. 
The country is described and a list of 76 species furnished, 
with short notes. Mr. T. J. Cole discusses “ tagging ” as a 
means of studying the movements of birds, and gives a plan 
for securing more definite data by the use of aluminium bands 
on the tarsus and the proper keeping of records. He seems 
unaware of the work in this direction carried out at Bossitten. 
Mr. M'Coy furnishes new records and important range- 
extensions of Colorado birds. Mr. S. S. Yisher has a paper 
on those of Western South Dakota, similar to that of 
Mr. Howell, with 194 species, but shorter notes. Mr. W. 
Brewster reports an undoubted Barrow’s Golden-eye from 
Massachusetts and writes at length on former records of that 
bird. He also discusses the nomenclature of the Black Ducks, 
and substitutes A. rubripes tristis for A. obscura rubripes. 
Lastly, Mr. J. A. Allen gives a most interesting account of 
the “ Habitat groups ” in the American Museum of Natural 
History, which must be read to be fully appreciated, while 
the four plates give a good idea of the excellence of the 
arrangement. 
A report of the twenty-sixth stated meeting of the A. O. U. 
is added to the January Number. 
84. f The Avicultural Magazine 
[Avicultural Magazine. The Journal of the Avicultural Society. New 
Series. Vol. vii. Nos. 6-10 (April-August, 1909).] 
In these numbers perhaps we should first mention 
Mr. R. I. Pocock’s account of the display of the cock Ostrich, 
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