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Deals with Falco peregrinus. Numerous plates of feathers. Falco. XIV. No. 2. 'Schluss-nummer' for 1918. (April, 1919.) [In German.] Ornis Germanica. III, April, 1919. Supplement to 'Falco.' [In German.] A list of German birds with names accordingto the peculiar ideas of the author, 0. Kleinschmidt.

Ornithological Articles in other Journals •

L. McI. Terrill. Fall Migrants. (Canadian Field Naturalist, Janu- ary, 1920.)--A review of the autumn migration at Quebec. Criddle, Norman. Notes on the Nesting Habits and Food of the Prairie Horned Larks in Manitoba. (Ibid.) Laing, Hamilton M. Lake Shore Bird Migration at Beamsville, . (Ibid. February, 1920.)--An annotatedlist coveringthe sum- mer and autumn of 1918. Morris, Frank. Belated Guests. (Ibid.)--Midwinter records of Brown Thrasher, Towhee and Goldfinchat Peterborough,Ontario. Nichols, J. T. Wintering Snipe and Rainfall. (Forest and Stream, May, 1920.)--"Heavy precipitationthe last half of the year is favorable to the presenceof Snipe on Long Island at i•s close." Anderson, R. M. The Brant of the Atlantic Coast.--A leaflet of the Canadian GeologicalSurvey in the interestsof the protectionof these birds under the Migratory Bird Treaty. Nelson, E.W. Federal and State Game Preserves. (Bulletin Amer. Game ProtectiveAsso., April, 1920.) Lawyer, George A. Resultsfrom the Migratory Birds Treaty Act. (Ibid.) Alien, Arthur A. A Day with the Ducks on Lake Cayuga. (Ameri- can Forestry, April, 1920.) With photographs of Canvas-backs and duck-shooting. Burroughs, John. Bird Photographsof Unusual Distinction. With extractsfrom the writingsof John Burroughs(Natural History, December, 1919.)--Followinga review of his 'Field and Study.' Allan Brooks Birds and a Wilderness. (Ibid.)--In . Nelson, E. W. Region too Alkaline for Crops. (Ibid.)--A further illustration of the folly of draining the Klamath Lake region, which is resultingin the ruination of the famousbird reservation.

• Some of these jonrnals are received in exchange others are examined in the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of . The Editor is under obligations to Mr. J. A. G. Rehn for a list of ornithological articles contained in the accessions to the library from week to week. Vol. XXX¾II]1920 J RecentLiterature. 495

Grinnell, George Bird. A Chapter and Natural History in Old . (Ibid, January-February, 1920.)--With recollectionsof Audu- bon Park. Worcester, Dean C. A Nesting Place of Micropus subfurcatusin Mindoro. (Philippine Journal of Science,December, 1919.) Anderson, J. A., Rintoul, L. J., and Ba•ter, E.V. Occurrencesof the AmericanWigeon in Scotland. (ScottishNaturalist, January-Febru- ary, 1920.) Baxter, Evelyn V. and Rintoul, Leonora J. The Wigeon as a ScottishBreeding Species. (ScottishNaturalist, January-February,and March-April, 1920.) Macready, Prof. The Birds of Prince Edward Island. (Bull, No. 1, Prince of Wales College,Charlottetown, P. E. I.)--Reprintcd from the 'Teachers Magazine', . A briefly annotatedlist in the form of a table. Oberholser, H.C. A Synopsisof the Racesof the GuianaFlycatcher Myiarchus ferox (Gmclin.) (Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 1918, pp. 304-308.) --Eight racesrecognized, none new. Elfrig, C. W.G. The Birds of the Sand Dunes of Northwestern Indiana. (Ibid. pp. 280-303.) Shufeldt, R. W. The Mounted Collection of Australian Birds in the United States National Museum. (Museum Work, 1920, pp. 212- 218.)-From the author's account one might judge that the National Museum Collectionof Australian birds was the most important in America while as every ornithologistknows the originalGould Collectioncontain- ing the great majority of the types of this pioneeris at the Academy of Natural Sciencesin Philadelphia where an almost complete exhibition seriesmounted by the famousVcrreaux brothers has been displayedfor many years. Frowhawk, F. W. Birds Beneficial to Agriculture. (Economic Series, No. 9. Guidebooksof the British Museum (Natural History) 47 pp. 22 plates. An excellent review of economicornithology in Great Britian. Duerden, J.E. BreedingExperiments with North African and South African Ostriches, VI. Degeneration. (Bull. no. 7. 1919. Dept. of Agric., Union of SouthAfrica.)--A continuationof the author'svaluable reports on Ostrich farming. (Cf. also Nature, CV, pp. 106-108, 1920.) Butterfield, E. P. The Common Wren. (Irish Naturalist, March, 1920.)--Roosting and in one instancebreeding in the "male nests." Gladstone, H. S. A Naturalist's Calendar, kept by Sir. William Jardine. (Trans. & Proc. Dumfrieshireand Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiq. Soc., VI, pp. 88-124. 1919.)--Covering January I to May 31, 1829. Philport, Alfred. On the Occurrencesof the Australian Coot in New Zealand. (NewZealand Jour. of Scienceand Tech., III, pp.55-56. 1920.) Donald, C. H. The Birds of Prey of the Punjab. III. (Journal of the BombayNat. Hist. Soc.X_XVI, pp. 826-835. 1919.) 496 RecentLiterature. [Auk[July

Whistler, H. Some Birds Observedat Tagoo, near Simla, []. (Ibid pp. 770-775)--Fifty-eight specieslisted. Stuart-Baker, E. C. The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Part XXVII. (Ibid. pp. 705-715.)--Deals with Tragopansatyra. Chubb, E. C. A Skeleton of the Dodo (Didus ineptus.) (Annals of the Durban Museum II, pp. 97-99 with plate.)--This specimenobtained by the Durban Museum from the heirs of E. Therioux of Mauritius, is more completethan any of the other known specimens,possesing the tail bones intact. The other Dodo remains according to the author are: four mountedskeletons in the muserunsof Cambridge,England, British Museum, and Mauritius; a foot and headat Oxford,England, being remains of a mounted specimendestroyed by moths in 1755; a foot in the British Museum and a head at . Longinas Nayas, R.P. Birds of Aragon. (Revista de la Academia de Ciencias exactas,fisiceq•finicas y naturales de Zaragoza, III, pp. 8- 69.)--The author'sunique policy of changingthe genericname to avoid tautonymy insteadof the specificas has usuallybeen doneby thosewho refuseto usetautonymic names, results in somenew genericnames which of course become synonymsviz: Melanopica (p. 15) for Corvus pica; Pycnorhinus(p. 20) for Loxia coccothraustesand Ocelletus(p. 56) for Motacilla regulus. [In Spanish.] Bannerman, David A. On Some Rare Birds from the Belgian Congo collectedby Dr. Cuthbert Christy. (Revue Zool. Africaine,VII fasc. 3, pp. 284-295. 1920)--1•otes on 17 speciesrare or new to the Congo region. [In English.] Schouteden, H. Contribution to the OrnithologicalFauna of the Lake Region of Central Africa (Ibid. V, pp. 209-297. 1918.)--An anno- tated list of 554 species. [In French.] Lonnberg, Einar. Notes on someinteresting Birds from British East Africa. (Ibid V, pp. 97-102. 1917.)--The followingare described as new: Astur tachiro tenebrosus(p. 99), Londiana, and ZosteropsBayeri (p. 100), Elgen. [In French.] Schouteden, H. Note on a Woodpeckerfrom the Congo. (/bid. IV, p. 143. 1916.)--Dendromuskasaicus Dubois proves to be D. caroli (Malh.) with someplmnage from anotherbird added. [In French.] Dehautl E.G. A Contributionto a study of the Vertebrate Life of the Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean, with specialreference to Sar- dinia and Corsica. Paris, 1920. [In French.] Godard,Andre. The Utility of Birds. (La Nature,No. 2386. 1919.) See also No. 2390 [In French.] Rollinat, Raymond. The Breedingof the Horned Owl in Captivity. (Bull. Soc. Nat. Acclim. France, 1919. December,pp. 373-376) [In French.] Schalow, Hermann. A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Bird Life of Various Battlefields. (Die Naturwissenschaften.CXX pp. 176- 178.) [In German,] Vol. XXX¾II]lO2O J RecentLitera,'ure. 497

Heifer, H. Bird Observations in Spring. (Zool. Anziger. XLIX, 1917, pp. 214-220.)--Gives dates for first song. [In German.] Lebedinsky, N.G. On •he influenceof the method of feeding on the form of the lower mandible of Birds. (Zool. Anzeiger. September 20, 1918, pp. 36-41.) [In German.] I)emoll, R. The Flight of Insects and Birds. (Die Naturwissen- shaften, XXVII, 1919, p. 480.) [In German.]

Additional Publications Received. Shufeldt, R.W. (1) Material for a Study of the Megapodidae(The Emu, July and October, 1919, and .) (2) Osteologicaland Other Notes on the Monkey-eating Eagle of the Philippines, Pithecophagajefferyi Grant (Philipp. Jour. of Sci., XVI, No. 1., July, 1919.) (3) My Published Writings SecondIn- stallment (Medical Rev. of Rev., February, 1920.) Hudson, W.H. (1) AdventuresAmong Birds. (2) Birds in Town and Village. E.P. Dutton & Co. N'. Y. 1920. Bulletin Charleston Museum. XVI, Nos. 2, 3, and 4. February, March and April, 1920. Condor, The. May-June, 1920. Phillippine Journal of Science. XV, Nos. 5 and 6, XVI. 1•o. 1, Novemberand December, 1919, and January, 1920. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. LXXI, Part III, 1920. Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science. XIV, Part 4. August, 1919. Records of the Australian Museum. XIII. No. 1. March 16, 1920. Revue Francaise d' Ornithologic. May, 1920.