Recently published Ornithological Works. 197 
suit the American avifauna; and Falco tinnunculus is ex¬ 
cluded. Several proposed changes of generic and specific 
names, however, are not accepted. The list as a whole 
should be consulted by our readers. 
In the October number Mr. S. Trotter conducts an 
interesting sf Inquiry into the history of the current English 
names of North American land-birds/' beginning with a 
“ Nomina Avium of Arch. /Elfric" (955-1020 a.d.) and 
descending through eleventh and fifteenth century lists to 
the days of Catesby, Bartram, Barton, Kulm, Wilson, and 
later writers. Mr. S. Stansell writes on the birds of Central 
Alberta, describing the style of the country and the species 
found there, and incidentally the nests of Totanus solitarius 
and Hesperiphona vespertina. Mr. T. S. Roberts gives us a 
life-study of an American bird ( Xanthocephalus xantho- 
cephalus ) in its breeding-colonies, with nine excellent photo¬ 
graphs ; Mr. E. Black welder furnishes a list of the birds 
observed in Iron County, Michigan, during a three months' 
geological survey in summer : Mr. H. W. Wright notices 
the nesting of Vermivora pinus in Massachusetts : and 
Dr. J. Dwight, Junr., retells the extraordinary story of the 
Black Duck (cf. ‘ Auk/ 1909, p. 175), proving that the 
red-legged form is merely the adult of the brown-legged. 
Finally, Mr. W. W. Cooke gives his third Supplement to 
the “ Birds of Colorado/' with a bibliography of Coloradan 
ornithology; it extends over 22 pages, and forms a valuable 
addition to his former publications on the subject. 
4. f Avicultural Magazine. 7 
[Avicultural Magazine. The Journal of the Avicultural Society. 
New Series. Vol. vii. Nos. 11, 12 (September, October, 1909).] 
These tw 7 o numbers contain useful articles on the habits 
of the following species in captivity, with notes on the 
breeding of most of them:— Phalaropus hyperboreus (received 
from Iceland, by Mr. C. B. Smith), Monticola saxatilis and 
Estrilda angolensis (by Mr. R. Phillipps), Myiadestes 
iuwnsendi and Cissupis leveriana (by Air. H. D. Astlev) 5 
