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134. With the death in October verness, Calif. 94937. $10.95. 1984 of Dr. W.W.H. Gunn, the on- 35 species. Jeffery Boswall going preparation of the work, 136d. Hall, K.J. and P.R.B. Ward. Sounds of Birds of North America: 1983. Nature Sounds of the North- Shorebirds, is having to be re- west: no. 1 Birdsof the Dry Interior his paper reviewsthe latest thought. recordsand cassettes of bird One 30 cm 331/3rpm disc, TRC 928 sound published in North 135. Gulledge, J.L. Coordinator. Total Recording Co., Vancouver, America,and givesother news,ad- 1983. A Field Guide to the Bird B.C., Canada. $8.50. ditions and corrections. It thus up- Songsof Easternand Central North 55 species. dates Boswall and Couzens (1982) America. Second edition. Two 30 136e. Gulledge, J.L. 1983. A May and Boswall (1983). cm 331/3rpm discs or two cassettes. Morning in Central New York/ Additiorialreferences to the early Houghton Mifflin, 2 Park Street, Songs of Five North American h•story of bird voice recording in Boston, Mass. 02108. $19.95. Thrushes/The Two Voices of the the United States are Allen (1941), 250 species. Wood Thrush. One 15 cm 331/3rpm Brand (1931), Dacy (1932)and Day Note: a completelyrevised edition flimsy disc, no number. Accompa- (1934), to which my attention was of 46. nies article 'SoundsWe Call Songs' k•ndly drawn by M.P. Keane. 136. Gulledge,J.L. Coordinator. by sameauthor in LivingBird Quar- It has recently come to light that terly 2(2):4-8. Laboratoryof Orm- the very first Afrotropical bird re- 1982. Guide to Bird Sounds. Four 23 cm floppy 331/3rpm discs. National thology, SapsuckerWoods Road, cordings were not made in 1950 Ithaca, New York 14850. Geographic Society, Washington (Boswall1983, p. 800, col. 3), but in 22 species plus 1 mammal. 1929 by in Nyasa- D.C. land (now Malawi). Boulton was a 179 species. 136f. Borror, D.J. 1984. Common member of the Strauss Central Afri- Note: sold only as one item in a Bird Songs.One cassetteand 64 pp can Expeditionof the American Mu- four-part package,"The Wonder of booklet. Dover Publications Inc, seumof NaturalHistory. He usedan Birds,"comprising hardback book, New York. $7.95. Edisonwax cylinder and a spring- limpbackfield guideand wall chart, 60 species. driven phonograph, but he says $34.95. But it will be independently Note: cassette version of 81. (1969, in a personal communication publishedby the Laboratoryof Or- 136g. Borror, D.J. 1984. Songs of to the British Library of Wildlife nithologyon "proper"LPs hopefully Eastern Birds. One cassette and 64 Sounds)"not very successfully."In in late 1985. pp. booklet. Dover Publications 1934 he worked in , Inc., New York. $7.95. 136a. Williams, L.E. and D. Austin. and usingcustom-built alu- 60 species. 1982. Real Turkeys. One cassette, Note: cassette version of 96. minum disc equipment providedto DM 83004. Obtainable from Real Laura Boulton by the American 136h. Borror, D.J. 1984. Songs of PhfiosophicSociety. The emphasis Turkeys,2201 SE 41 Avenue, Gaines- ville, Florida32601.$7.95 plus p. & p. Western Birds. One cassette and 64 was on recordingnative music but pp. booklet. Dover Publications some recordings of birds were 1 species. made. (See Williams, 1984, for highly de- Inc., New York. $7.95. tailed treatment of species'vocabu- 60 species. Note: cassette version of 97. New details lary.) 136b. Williams, L.E. and D. Austin. 136i. Hardy, J.W. (Compiler).1984. 133. Borror, D.J. and W.W.H. 1983. Real TurkeysII. One cassette, Voices of the New World Jays, Gunn. 1985. Songsof the Warblers DM 84007. Details as for 136a. Crows and their Allies: Family Cor- of North America. Three 30 cm 45 1 species. vidae. One 30 cm 331/3rpm disc, (s•c) rpm discs or two cassettesand ARA9. ARA Records, J.W. and C K 50 pp. booklet. Laboratoryof Orni- 136c. Sander, T.G. 1983. Common Hardy, 1615 NW 14 Ave., Gaines- thology, SapsuckerWoods Road, BreedingBird Songs in the SanFran- ville, Florida 32611. $9.95. Ithaca, New York 14850. $34.95. cisco BayArea, Volume 1. One cas- 47 species (including Neotropical 57 species. sette. T.G. Sander, P.O. Box 617, In- species).

Volume39, Number3 355 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks are owed to Peter Copeland, Dominic Couzens, Karol Gressen, James/. Gulledge, Ken J. Hall, J.W. Hardy, M.P. Keane and Ron Kettle.

Thanks to National Science Founda- tion funding, the Borrer Laboratory of Bioacoustics is able to make the collection and the services of the laboratorymore accessibleto inves- tigators.

LITERATURE CITED

ALLEN,A.A. 1941.Obituary--Albert Rich Brand. Auk 58:444 448. BOSWALL,J. 1983. Fifty years of bird sound publicationin North America: 1931-1981. Supplementary Notes. Am. Birds 37: 8004301. BOSWALL, J. and D. COUZENS. 1982. Fiftyyears of bird sound publication in North America: 1931-1981. Am. Birds 36: 924-943. BRAND, A.R. 1931.An informal report of the first year's work in an experiment recording the songs of wild birds. Unpubl. typescript,39 pp. Jerryand NormaStillwell are the only two pioneer North Americanrecordists of bird DACY, G.H. 1932. Snare notes of wild voicewhose photo could not be foundin timefor theoriginal 1982 paper. Thisone has birds. Popular Science Monthly been kindly provided by Ralph R. Moldenhauer, and showsthe couple, probably in 121(3):16-17 and 94. 1953. DAY, G.A. 1934. How the sounds of birds are recorded on film and disc. 136j. Barker, N.W. and F.B. Barker. and not commerciallypublished in Radio-Craft 5(8) :462•,63 and 488. 1984. Bird Songs of Southeastern 1931. Thus no. 3 (1933) becomes the WILLIAMS, L.E. 1984. "The Voice and Minnesota. Three cassettes and earliest North American commer- Vocabularyof the Wild Turkey." Wild Turkeys, same address as for cas- book. Tom JonesRecordings, Roch- cially issuedexample of bird sound settes-see entry 136a. ester, Minnesota 55901. $22.50 the recordings. set of three and book. 109 species. To the list of North American institu- --The Natural History Unit, Note: a cassette version of 67a (Bos- tionalized bird sound collections B.B.C., BroadcastingHouse, wall 1983, p. 800, col. 3). please add: Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2LR, 136k. lellis, R. (Editor). 1984. Bird The library of Natural Sounds,Oak- England land Museum of Natural Sciences, Sounds and their Meaning. One One Thousand Oak Street, Oak- cassette. Laboratory of Ornithol- land, California 94607, telephone: ogy, SapsuckerWoods Road, Itha- ca, New York 14850. $10.95. (415) 273-3401, holds recordings of Note: an American cassette version at least 120 North American species, of 110 which complements Ameri- and also many of insects,and some can paperback re-issueof the book of amphibians, reptiles and mam- mals. It is curated by Paul Matzner. of the same title by Cornell Univer- sity Press,1984, $14.95. The Gunn library of Wildlife Natural Sounds,following the death of Dr. W.W.H. Gunn in October 1984, is Corrections: being run, pro tern, by Dr. Gunn's The phrase "and was taken by Russ widow. It is to be deposited at Cor- Kinne" refers to the photographof nell University's library of Natural the Meadowlark (Boswall 1983, p. Sounds in due course. Meantime 800, col. 1). the BBC has purchased non-exclu- I am advised by M.P. Keanethat no. sive world rights to a major part of I in the discographywas privately the collection.

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