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 126 Bird -Lore largely on his own researches, and his list of 323 species and subspecies is evi- dence of his diligence afield When we note, however, that such species as the Nashville, Canadian, and Wilson's Warb- lers and Common Tern have not as yet been reported from Louisiana, it is clear that the state still offers a profitable field for the faunal ornithologist. Professor Beyer's work is well done, but we would suggest that more critical examination of his material would perhaps cause him to change his identification of several species; among them " Tynnfanuchiis arncricatnis," which, as he records it only from the south-western part of the state, is probably T. a. al tzcaleri : "Ammodramiis caudacutus, which is doubtless A. nelsoni; and '^Ammodramiis maritimus," which presumably is A. m. fisheri. These, how- ever, are minor defects, and the paper as a whole bears evidence of care in its prep- aration, which makes it a trustworthy source of reference. — F. M. C. Preliminary List of Birds, Resident, Visitant, Migrant, or Accidental, Observed in the Vicinity of Man- chester, N. H. Compiled by Fred- erick W. Batchelder, assisted by Edward H. Fogg. Proc. Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. Vol. I, 1899, pp. 123-138. This is a briefly annotated list of 132 species, and is designed to form a work- ing basis for further observation. It is an outgrowth of the activity of the orni- thological section of the Manchester In- stitute and the ' Reports of the Meetings' of this section which precede the 'List' (pages 117-121) should prove both sug- gestive and stimulative reading for the members of other societies devoted to the study of birds.— F. M. C. Book News Circular No. 29, of the Biological Sur- vey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, signed by James Wilson, Secretary of Ag- riculture, places the administration of the Lacey Bill, so far as it concerns the impor- tation and preservation of animals, in charge of the Biological Survey, under the im- mediate direction of the Assistant Chief of the Survey, — an appointment which all advocates of the Lacey Bill will regard with unbounded satisfaction. This circu- lar also presents the Lacey Bill in full and explains the manner in which it is pro- posed to make its provisions effective. Circular No. 28, of the Biological Sur- vey, by Dr. T. S. Palmer, Assistant Chief of the Survey, is a ' Directory of State Officials and Organizations Concerned with the Protection of Birds and Game,' a publication which admirably supple- ments Dr. Palmer's Bulletin No. 12, no- ticed above. The increasing demand on the part of the public for information concerning local bird-life is frequently manifested now-a-days by the appearance in the press of popular articles by ornithologists, whose signature gives to their contributions a value not generally to be found in news- paper natural history. Thus we have lately received copies of the San Juan (Porto Rico) 'News,' Detroit 'Free Press, and ' Prince Edward Island Maga- zine,' containing instructive articles on local birds, by G. B. Pratt, H. S. Warren and John MacSwain, respectively. The 'Western Ornithologist' — formerly the 'Iowa Ornithologist' — is published on the fifteenth of every other month at Avo- ca, Iowa. It is edited by Chas. C. Tryon, with the assistance of Carl Fritz Henning and David L. Savage, who are to be con- gratulated on both the appearance and contents of their magazine. Mr. Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. 's quar- terly ' Notes on Rhode Island Orni- thology,' which is published by the editor at Brookline, Mass., contains interesting records from the state to a study of the avifauna of which it is devoted. We learn from the July ' Iris ' that at a recent meeting of the British Ornitholo- gists' Club a resolution was unanimously carried that any member of the " Union" who should become respopnsible for the destruction of certain birds, which the persecutions of egg-collectors threaten to exterminate in Great Britian, should be severely censured by the " Union."