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joy a couple of technical papers. one by Witmer Stone on ‘The Genetic Names of the North American Owls' and one by L. M, Loomis on ‘Recognition of Geo— graphical Variation in Nomenclature.’

Among notes. we ﬁnd one by]. H, Clark on ‘A Much-Mated House Sparrow.‘ which deals a sad blow to the general belief in the devotion of mated birds. It is to be hoped it is only another instance of the English Sparrow’s general depravity as he becomes il ed.

A new ‘new edition ' of ‘Nnttall' is re- viewed. The collection of annotated ex- Cerpts that modern publishers oﬁer would scarcely be recogniretl by Nuttall as his handiwork, and the modernizing is to he deprecated. A twelfth supplement to the harried CliecksList occupies the final pages In justth to myself as a member or the ap- proving committee, I tnay be permitted to say that I do not believe in lnany of the ar- cepted changes, especially the multiplication of genera, Similariti ' rather than dilfer- enccs shoulti he the basis for general, other- \\ e the systetnatist will soon have each species in a genus hy motif]. 1).. 1R.

THE Coxliok,—Thejuly number of ‘ The Condor‘ contains a report of the ‘Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists‘ Union and IlIL' Cooper Ornithological Club of California.‘ with three of the papers which were presented on that occasion. namely: ‘Call Notes of the Btlsh~Tit.' by Grinliell; ' Notes on the Bird Conditions of the Fresno District.’ by Miller, and the - Cassin Anklet lF/J‘I’Mnlrlr/t/lu: a/citiirnrl' on Santa Barbara Island, by Robertson. Readers will ﬁnd iii these articles an epit- trim: of tllc meeting. but the pleasure of Seeing the many beatlrillll lantern slides. and of personal contact with the forty or ﬁfty members present on that enjoyable

occasion. can only be reproduced in the memories or

those “ilu were fortunate enough to attend the tenth anniversary meet- ing of the Cooper Club.

Among the nthct articles in this number may be mentioned Bailey‘s notes on 'The VVhite-tlecked Raven ’ in western Texas. ('arv‘s ‘Mol‘ning with the Birds of Juan Vin s.

Costa kica.‘ and Bolllman s ‘ Nest-

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ing Habits of thc Shufeldt Junco,’ near' Portland, Oregon,~each illustrated with one or two half-tones. Mailliard contrib— utes some ‘ Notes from Santa Barbara, California,‘ in which he calls attention to the early melting of birds in that locality; Stephens concludes his ‘Bitd Notes from Eastern California and Western Atiaona,’ and Fowler adds some ‘Stray Notes from Southern Arizona,‘ on the Elf Owl, Ari— zona Woodpecker, Rivoli and White-eared Hummingbirds.

Two of the illustrations deserve special mention: The frontispiece, which is a repro- duction of one of Bohlman's superb photo» graphs, showing the nest of the Shufeldt junco in situ; and the portrait of Dr. Ed- gar A. Mearns, which forms the third in- stalment in the series of portraits of eastern ornithologists.7T. S. P.

THE Wthox BuLLE‘rlN,—No. 4,3 of ‘The Wilt n Bulletin’ contains the following articles: ‘All Day \ th the Birds,’ and ‘Brewster Warbler in Ohio,' by Lynds Jones: ‘Bil'tlsof DeKalb County, Georgia,’ by R. W. Smith: 'Some Birds of Florida,’ by J, M. Keck, and "I‘he Nest of the Orchard Oriole,‘ by R, W, Shufeldt. The general notes include observations on ‘ Un- usual Birds at Oberlin, Ohio,‘ by Lynds jone ‘ Notes from Dutehess County, New York,‘ by M, S. Crosby, and ‘Mountain Bluebirds Int‘reasing in Boulder, Colorado,’ by jlilitls Henderson.

On a certain day in May each year since t898, Lynds jones has made an effort to secure the highest daily record of species for the season, and in ‘All Day with the Birds‘ he has given several interesting tables, so arranged as to show on how

many Dct'asions the species were observed. Severityriour species our or a possible one httntlretl and thirteen were seen on each year.

We are iIltV' 'sglatl to see local lists, as they

give an insight into the aviranna of deﬁnite regions and assist materially in the work in geographic iii on four male Brewster Warblers, Lynds jones found that the songs had considerable range and varied from the almost typical

btltion.

In his observations

notes of the Blue-winged Warbler to those of the Golden -winged Warbler. This