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those included we do ltot recall having

seen referred to by ornithologists, We

note. however, that no reference is made to

Aughey's important paper on the ‘Food

of the Birds of Nebraska’ (First Annual

Report of tlte U. S. Ent. Cotnm., for the

Year t877): to King‘s extended report on

Relations of \Visconsin

Birds,‘ occup rig nearly two hundred pages

in tlre \Vist‘onsin Geological Survey for

tXSz. or to Warren's ‘ Report rm the Birds of Pennsylvania, with Special Reference to

the Food Hahits,‘ eta—F, M, C.

A NATURE WoolNo AT UKMONl)-BY-'l‘l|E SEA. By W. S. BLATCHLYY. Nature~ Study Publishing Compan‘. Indianapo- lis. 1902. lzmo. 245 pages. l2 plates, numerous text-cuts, map.

the ‘ Ecmlo

The author's every-day experiences as a ﬁeltlvnaturalist interested in plants, insects, shells. reptiles, birds and mammals are instructiver re~ that his hook may lw read with both interest and proﬁt. Particularly should it appeal to those in quest of gen- eral information concerning the more cltar~ acterisric phases of animal life in Florida.

or unusual importance was his tliscoi-ery

lrere so pleasantly and counted

of a bone of the great Auk in an rlnond shell heap; a discovery subsequently con- firmed by Prof, (T. H. Hitchcock (see BlRu~ LURE I\', 97l 7F. M, C.

THE Buns Ul" WYOMING. KNIL: Bull. No. periment Station. Laramie. Wyo. r74i pages. 4:; plates.

Bl' WlliKUK C. Svo.
 * . Wyoming ‘ a

t‘lris Bulletin enumerates the 288 species and .stlhspecies of birds which have been inurul in Wyoming, discusses their status as \Vyonring lrirrls, and. in Munro. their habits and economic value.

some inn

Forty-eight atlmiralrly printed, full-page, ltnll»tone plates. irnrn original dl'auings by Mr. Frank Bond. Itnntlretl ~pet‘ics. and add greatly tn the which should hzlte a most stimulating effect on the sruily til lririls in \Vyoluillg.

ﬁgure upward or a

educational value ol lltt: ttork, It is to he regretted, llouel‘er, III“! the author should the times rt~ to consider him A killing synonymous uith ltil'd study. 7F. M. (

he so far hellind

The Ornithological Magazines

THE Arm—The Auk' for January, 1903. opens with adiscussion or ‘The A. 0. U. Check-Inst: Its History and its Future’ by j. A. Allen. If eaclr priority seeker. not merely content with digging deeper than his predecessor. will only upturn literature down to the bed-rock foundation of r758, then we may hope [or an end of the name changes of the last twenty years. The nomenclatural broth seems to be spoiled hy too many inetﬁcient cooks.

E. W. Doran wotlld have reform in ‘The Vernacular Names of Birds,‘ htlt, as Dr. Allen shows on a page, reformers have a hard road to travel when current usage blocks the way. of interest to the general reader is an article by A. w. Antlrony, on the ‘Migration or Richard- son's Urouse.‘ rlrey advance “by walk» ing up to the tops of tire lrills and ridges and as invariably ﬂying as near to the top ot the next as their gradually descending ﬂight will carry them." Then we have Arizona Bird Notes‘ by H. Brown and

later

'I‘he Diary of a Cardinal‘ Nest' by G. F. Harvey the latter with a halt-tone of the nest in a conservatory. The half—

tones accompanying E. H. Eaton‘s account of ‘An Epidemic of Roup in the Canan— tlaigua Crow Roost‘ are suggestive of a battleﬁeld. In ‘An Ornithological Visit to Los Coronados Islands, Lower Cali- tornia' we tind among the birds mentioned a new insular. full species Song Sparrow, Melrrpien (nrmmmrltm. “lie conversion of the Spanish word into Latin, as well as the recognition of a new species in an al- ready nurclr confused group. attortls tootl ior‘ reflection. There are ‘Notes concerning Certain Birds of Long Island, N. \'.,' by W. C. Braislin. among them the capture of Lat-u: miuulm, thus further establishing its credentials as a North American visitor. The proceedings at the twentieth congress of the A. 0. 1'. are reviewed by the secre- tary, J. H. Sage; and after the usual ‘Gen- eral Nutes,‘ ‘Rec tt Literature,‘ etc., there follows as a supplement the ‘Report of the A. 0. U. Committee on the Protection of North American Birds” by \V. Dutcher,