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 date iiomenclatLire is not needed in editions iilve a daily newspaper, and if 'Supplements' are to appear every few months, bird students will finally come to regard them, right or wrong, only as a sort of nomencla- tural yellow journalism.— J. D., Jr. The Osprev. — Three numbers (May, June, and July) of ' I'he Osprey ' recently have appeared, and, as usual, contain mat- ter of considerable interest. The illustrated paper on the 'Osprey or Fish Hawk,' which Doctor Gill commenced in the initial number of the current volume, is still con- tinued, and Paul Bartsch concludes his article on 'The Dismal Swamp.' To his list of fifty-three summer residents, we can add the following species: Night Heron, Spotted Sandpiper, Bob-white, Dove, Bald Eagle, Red - tailed and Broad - winged Hawks, Phoebe, Fish Crow, Red-winged Blackbird, Meadowlark, Goldfinch, Field Sparrow, Barn Swallow, Brown Thrasher, Long-billed Marsh Wren, and Bluebird. Among the other original articles may be mentioned ' William Swainson and His Times' (part ix ), by Doctor Gill; 'A Canoe Trip Up the San Juan River, Mex- ico,' by Percy Shufeldt ; 'My Story of a Sharp-shinned Hawk,' by P.M. Silloway; ' Stephens' Whippoorwill,' by J. H.Riley; 'Blue Grosbeak in Eastern Kansas,' by W. S. Colvin ; 'Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher,' and 'The Malar Stripe of Young Flickers,' by Wm. Palmer; ' Tenants of Uncle Sam,' and 'Camping on the Old Camp Grounds,' by Paul Bartsch, and ' Notes on the Birds of the Bermudas, with Descriptions of Two New Subspecies [Cardinalis cardinalis somersii and Sialia sialis bermudensis),' by A. H. Verrill. Mr. Verrill is unfor- tunate in losing both these subspecies, for in the case of the Bluebird he overlooked the fact that Linnaeus based his descrip- tions on the Bermuda bird, and a de- scription of the Cardinal by Bangs and Bradlee appeared in 'The Auk ' fully two weeks before his paper was issued. In the review of Doctor Dwight's paper 'On Sequence of Plumages and Moults' there seems to have been some careless proofreading, as 'nuptial,' both in its in- dependent and combined forms, is uni- formly misspelled. The shorter notes are to be found under the headings of 'Comments and Notes.' —A. K. F. Wilson Bulletin No. 35. — This num- ber of the Bulletin contains the following articles: 'On the Occurrence of Two Southern Birds in 'irginia,' and "Spring Horizon, near Lynchburg, Va.,' hv J. W. Daniel, Jr.; ' Helm'inthoph'ila p'liius in Wisconsin,' by N. Hollister; 'The Red- poll in South Carolina,' by W. J. Hoxie; 'Cardinal,' by T. D. Keim, and a num- ber of interesting shorter communications imder the heading of ' General Notes.' Fwo articles by Professor Lynds Jones and the editor, on ' A Suggestion for Work,' and ' Further Suggestions for Tak- ing a Bird Census,' contain valuable hints which should assist the student in learning more of the life histories of birds. — A. K. F. Book News. All nature-lovers will learn with pleas- ure of the promised early publication, by Charles Scribner's Sons, of a new work by Ernest Seton-Thompson to be entitled ' The Lives of the Hunted.' McClure, Phillips & Co., announce for early publication 'Songs of Nature,' a selection by John Burroughs, of over two hundred and twenty poems relating to birds, flowers, the seasons, and nature. Mr. Burroughs's fine judgment as a critic and knowledge as naturalist will doubtless make this collection one of unusual charm and value. ' The Birds of Princeton, New Jersey,' by William Arthur Babson, a brochure of some eighty pages, will soon be issued by the Princeton Bird Club, under the editor- ship of W. E. D. Scott, as its first Bulletin. We take pleasure in calling especial at- tention to 'Nature Study,' a journal pub- lished with commendable regularity each month by the Manchester (N. H.) Institute of Arts and Sciences. Its articles are all original and, what does not always follow, tiiey are both readable and valuable.