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the species, and their relative abundance is always stated. As both Chickadees are given as common residents. remarks on their local distribution would have been interest— ing. tion of tgol ’ in Lorain county. Ohio. R. L. Baird has given a tolerably complete index of the movements of the birds of that section during their northward flight. A table is appended patterned aiter those published in BIRDaLoRE giving the species arriving This table is divided into ten parts, each of which covers from 5 to to days, so that it is easy to observe inst what combination of species arrive between certain dates. In an article on ‘Maryland Birds.‘ Rev. j. H. Langille shows among other things how adequate protection during spring will inn

In working out the ‘Spring Migra-

between February is and May r5.

duce birds to nest in increasing numbers. As soon as proper laws were enforced in Baltimore and Washington the sale of song- birds in rlle game markets practically stopped and the lives of myriads of Robins and other birds were spared throughout the surrounding country, We might point out in this connection that waterfowl when un- molested will return in like manner to their Two years ago leflerson county, New York. abolished spring shooting. The experiment tully demon- strated the soundness of the movement, for the Ducks at nesting time resorted to the

tormer breeding grounds.

marshes in such numbers that when autumn came their bountiful flight was a surprise to everyoner-Al K. F.

Program at the Twentieth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union

At the morning and afternoon sessions of the Union. held at the United States National Museum. Washington, D. C.. November rho. r902. the following papers were presented :

Notes on the Life of Edward Harris, with

Extracts from his Journals. George Spencer Morris

The Development of the Pterylosis. Hubert Lyman Clark.

The Domestic Adairs of Bob-white. john

N. Clark.

and Reviews 203

Summer Bird-Life of Eastern North Caro»

lina. T. Gilbert Pearsonl

Change of Color without Molt. R. M, Strong.

Iridescence and White Feathers, R. M. Strong.

Some Problems of Local Bird Population. Walter B. Barrows.

Notes on Pimider ameriranur and Pimider artlirru in Minnesota. Illustrated with lantern slides. 'I‘. S. Roberts.

Comparison of the Bird-Liie of Gardiner‘s Island and Cobb's Island. Illustrated with lantern slides. Frank M. Chapman.

A Contribution to the Lite-History of the Herring Gull. Illustrated with lantern

slides. By W. L. Baily and William Dtltcher. The A. Q U. Checklist—its History and

its Future. J. A. Allen.

A Glance atthe Historical side of the Check- List of North American Birds. Witnler Stone.

Evolution of Species and Subspecies as illus- trated by certain Mexican Quails and Squirrels. E, w. Nelson.

Form in Bird Music. H. W. Olds.

Ancient Birds and their Associates. Ila lllstrated with lantern slides. F. A. Lllcasl

Observations on the Herons of the District of Columbia. Illustrated with lantern slides. Paul Bartsch.

Bird-Lit inthe Bahamas. Illustrated with lantern slides. Frank M. Chapman and Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

Report of the Chairman of the Committee on the Protection of North Birds. William Diltrher.

Federal Game Protection in\1902. 'I‘. 25. Palmer.

Some Variations in the Piping Plover. (/Eginliti! malaria.) Jonathan Dwight, 1r.

Nesting or the Red-bellied Woodpecker in Hariord County. Maryland. \Vm. H. Fisher.

Some Food Habits of West Indian Birdsl B. S. Bowdtsh,

The Significance of Trinornials in Nomen-

Witmer Stone.

An Epidemic of Roup in the Canandaigua Crow Roost. Elon Howard Eaton.

American

clature.