732 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
and to further notes in 'The Auk/ vol. xxvi. An account 
is given of the condition of the avifauna of the southern 
coast in the spring of 1909, and three species are added to 
the Labrador list (3 plates). Mr. Ruthven Deane, in con¬ 
tinuation of his interesting articles on Audubon, furnishes 
us with letters from that great ornithologist and Dr. Ingall 
on the Labrador trip of 1833, when much good work was 
done, bat no new species were discovered; Mr. J. H. Sage 
publishes his Report on the twenty-seventh ee stated meeting y> 
of the A. O. U.; and Mr. L. B. Bishop describes two new 
subspecies (Numenius americanusparvus from Western Canada, 
and Molothrus ater dwighti , Saskatchewan to N. Dakota). 
In the April number we have three articles in memory 
of J. C. Merrill, C. Aldrich, and R. B. Sharpe, with 
portraits, by Mr. W. Brewster, Mr. R. Deane, and Dr. J. 
A. Allen respectively. Mr. L. J. Cole also records the 
progress made in the 44 tagging ” of wild birds. 
The July number contains a paper of considerable length 
on bird-photographing in the Carolinas, by Messrs. B. S. 
Bowdish and P. B. Philipp, with three plates of Terns, the 
Black Skimmer, the Florida Cormorant, and the Florida 
Gallinule. 
Of papers more especially distributional contained in the 
three numbers, Mr. J. E. Hess discusses the species found 
within a ten-mile radius, near Philo, in Illinois ; Mr. J. C. 
Wood the winter birds of 1908-9 in Wayne Co., Michigan; 
Mr. G. Eifrig the same at Ottawa—with some interesting 
observations on the habits ; Messrs. A. H. Wright and A. A. 
Allen write on the increase of “ Austral Birds ” at Ithaca; 
Mr. W. F. Henninger on his experiences in Ohio (plate) ; 
Messrs. N. A. Wood and A. D. Tinker on the rarer species of 
Washtenaw Co., Michigan; Mr. E. R. Warren on the birds 
of Chaffee Co., Colorado; Mr. G. C. Embody on those of 
Ashland, Virginia; Mr. J. F. Ferry on those of Saskatchewan 
(3 pis.); Mr. R. W. Chaney on those of Hamlin Lake, 
Michigan; Mr. S. S. Visher on those of Pima County, 
Arizona ; and Mr. A. H. Howell on those of the summer in 
Kentucky and Tennessee. 
