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RECENT LITERATURE Common diseases of .l--Mr. Enrique Avila, of the staff of the Peruvian National Guano Administration, has completed four years of graduate study at the University of Wisconsin. In August, 1945,he is scheduledto return to Perd and to devote his labors to the conservation and development of the great hordes of guano birds, a major natural resourceof his country. Mr. Avila has recently publisheda non-technical but comprehensiveaccount of dis- easesof w/ld b/rds, with particular reference to those having agricultural significance or capable of transmissionto man. In successivesections of the paper he discusses diseasescaused by bacteria, protozoa, fungi, ectoparasites,and the several groups of organisms called worms. Here we learn that a malady indistinguishablefrom equine encephalomyelitishas a high incidence among birds, and that the notorious "duck sickness," formerly as- cribed to botulism, is in reality a form of this "sleeping sickness." Psittacosis,more familiar to ornithologists,is common to a large variety of birds in addition to parrots. It can be communicatedby way of many different secretionsand exuviae, and its mortality among human beingsis extremely high (30-40 per cent). True botulism has been described in more than 60 of birds. Avian tetanus, diphtheria, tuberculosis,cholera, erysipehs, malaria, and the fungus infection known as asper- gillosis are also widely prevalent. Rabies and undulant fever have been induced experimentally, even though they have not yet been found in nature. Tularemia, so-calledbecause it was first recognizedin Tulare County, California (althoughsome of our British colleaguesinsist on forcing upon it the pseudo-Greekspelling "tularae- mia"), is another malady with important human bearings. Furthermore, starlings in England have been charged with being vectors of foot-and-mouth disease of cattle, while certain other birds can carry and perhaps distribute the organisms of anthrax, coccidiosisand similar plagues. The author brieflyrefers to the extraordinarynumber of avian ectoparasites,of which more than 200 specieshave been found in the relatively small area of the United States east of the Mississippi River. He remarks, however, that both exter- nal and internal parasitesare a normal characteristicof most wild and that only rarely doessuch infestation causethe death of a large proportion of the hosts.-- R. C. M•m•HY. The life of the hummin!lbirds.•Jacques Berlioz is undoubtedly the world's authority on hummingbirdsand it is to be hopedthat he will soongive us a complete and much needed revision of the family, to bring up to date the work of the late Eugene Simon, our common friend and inspirer, whose magnificent collection has been bequeathed to him. The present volume, however, is not a technical study, but a general account of the hummingbirds for laymen interested in these lovely creatures. It is significant and comforting to note that commercial publishers have found fit to ask the author for such a book and to hear that it had a successfulsale in present-day France. Berlioz writes with the clarity and eleganceof the French naturalists of the past two centuries. He knows how to make sciencesmile. During his extensive travels, he has also taken excellent photographsof humming- birds' habitats throughout the Americas. Some of them illustrate the work, as well as two charming coloredplates and severalline drawingsafter his own sketches. AVILA, ENRIQUE. 'Enfermedades m//s corrientes entre las aves silvestres.' Boletin de 4a Com- pafiia Administradora del Guano, 21: 87-94. Lima, April, 1945, BERLIOZ.JACQUES. 'La Vie des Colibris.' Pp. 1-198, pl. 1-10, 5 figs. Histoires Naturelies, 4, Galfimard, Paris, 1944. Vol.1945 62]J RecentLiterature 6Z•3

In the first part of the book the author exposesthe biology of the birds: general characteristics,locomotion, diet and feeding,nesting and breeding. In the second part, he studies the different habitats, geographicaldistribution, and migrations. A short appendix is dedicatedto the hummersin captivity. More technicalornithol- ogistswould be well advised to follow Berlioz's exampleand to put their experience at the disposalof the generalpublic. The author of the presentwork deservesour congratulationsfor the excellent way in which he has succeededin fulfilling the wishes of enlightenedpublishers.--J•A• D•LACom•. millration.•--In one of the four parts of a book dedicatedto migra- tions and published for the benefit of the reading public, Jacques Berlioz has dis- cussedbird migration in his usually precise, informative and attractive style. In five chapters, he reviews the definition and origin of bird migration, its general characters,variability and different influences,and migrationsin boreal,austral and intertropical regions. In the last one, he gives his conclusions,which are that bird migrationsare essentiallydue to the quest for food and to geographicalconsiderations linked to the modificationsthat have taken place on the earth. particularly after glaeiation periods. The other three parts of the work treat the migration of insects(L. Chapard), fish (L. Bertin) and mammals (P. Laurent) with a remarkable prefaceby Prof. L. Cuenot. --JEAN D•La½OUR. Modern bird study.•-The present volume has as its foundation a seriesof lec- tures given by the author at the Lowell Institute in early ! 944 and here revised and expanded for the reading public. It gives a conciseaccount of various phases of modern bird study with a broad glimpse of the subject that should acquaint the layman with many aspects of ornithology with which he is likely to be entirely m•,familiar. It isin nosense a technical manual although the workers in theornitho- logicalfield will appreciatethe fact that the subjectsdiscussed are frequentlyhighly technical. Mr. Griscom has simplified his statements in a readable style for the benefit of the general reader. The broad aims and proceduresof field observationas they have altered over the yearsmake a goodintroduction. The intelligenceand adaptability of birds are next discussed. Bird migration and generaldistribution and someof the specialproblems of distribution in different parts of the Americas are discussedin somedetail, and the principles underlying modern practices of classificationcomprise the concluding chapter. While these are the main headingsunder which the text is placed, the discussions are expandedto bring in outlying topicsthat are pertinent. There are few details of ornithologicalstudy that may be consideredeffectively alone and there are always radiating lines of interrelationship. The author has covereda great deal of ground and still kept the account running smoothly. Numerous concrete examples are cited and a variety of anecdote is added to lighten the story. A very brief list of references is given at the close of each chapter which might have been expanded without detriment but rather with some advantage to the reader who might wish to pursuecertain topicsfurther. Various of the works cited will, however,supply some of the additional references needed. The book may be recommendedto a wide public. especiallyto people who may sometimeswonder what an ornithologist does with his time.--J. T. Zxm•R. • BERU•OZ,J. 'Les Migrations d'Oiseaux.' Pp. 91-162, in Les Migrations Animales. L'Avenir de la Science, 17, Gallimard, Paris, 1942. e GE•SCOM,LUDLOW. 'Modern Bird Study.' Demy 8vo, X q- 190, 15 pls., I0 figs., June I, 1945. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. Price $2.50. 644 ReventLiterature [Oct.FAuk

Galfipagos Finches.•--Ever since Darwin's historic visit to the Gallpagos Islands in 1835, the Gallpagos fincheshave furnished an extremely fertile field for ornithologicalstudy and speculation. At intervals there have been accountsof the islandsand their bird life with the focal point of the studiescentered in these birds. None of the reports has been exhaustive nor does the present account purport to be such, but there are many features brought out by Mr. Lack that add a great deal to our knowledge of the subject. The author visited the archipelagoin late 1938and early 1939and studiedthese finches in the field on various of the islands. A number of the birds of four species were taken to California for investigations in the aviary since their removal to England wasfound to be impractical. A large number of previouslycollected speci- mens in various collections in America and in the British Museum were examined. Mr. Lack's conclusionsare, therefore, based on first-hand information of wide extent. The first part of the report deals somewhatbriefly with the classificationof these birds in which some new proposalsare offered, although Swarth's classificationis, in the main, found acceptable. Several groups are called 'superspecies'although their componentsare not consistentlymaintained as speciesin all referencesto them; in someplaces binomials are usedbut in others,trinomials, which is a little confusing. Owingto the extensivevariability of someof thesebirds and the overlapof charac- ters, some specimenshave been impossibleto identify with certainty, and intermedi- ates and variants have been assigned to different speciesby different authors or, in some cases, named as distinct. Some of this confusion still remains. In the curious easeof Geosigzamagnirostris, the three original specimensare larger than any that have been taken since Darwin's time and Lack supposesthat an evolutionary changemay have taken place in the intervening years. The breedingbehavior of nine spedeswas studied in the field with someinteresting experimentsperformed with mounted spedmens. There was found to be great similarity in the different generaand speciesnot only in respectto this behavior but also in songsand call-notes. A limited correlation,only, wasfound betweenfeeding habits and differencesin the bill. Oifford's earlier discovery was confirmed of the use,by Cactospizapallida, of a thorn or twig for probingerevices in searchof insects. In Geospizamagnirostris and G. fortis, no differencesof habitat, food, feeding habits, nest site, or breeding seasonwere discoveredalthough the speciesdiffer only in generalsize and relative sizeof the bill and live in closeassociation without inter- breeding. Other less exact cases are mentioned. Lack concludesthat habitat distinctionshave been of importancein speciationof thesebirds in only a few cases. Certain possibleniches on the islandsare still untilled. No speciesis isolatedfrom another by differencesin breedingseason but there is a differenceof breedingtimes on the coast and in the interior due to differences in the incidence of the rainy season. Some males were found to breed in a partially or completely streaked plumage, but while some of these individuals may have been birds of the year, there is a possi- bility that this of plumage may be the fully adult dressfor certain others in the generaPlatyspiza and Camarkynckus.Lack thus believes,with Swarth, that this groupof finchesis in processof losingthe blackplumage. Since the coloration of so many membersof the group is the same uniform black in the male sex,recognition of the various speciesby each other is principally by the size and shape of the bill. Nevertheless, there is considerablevariation in bill

• LACK, DAYre. 'The Galapagos Finches (Geospizinae) A Study in Variation.' Occ. Papers Call. fornia Acad. Sci., No. 21.4to, VII -]- 159, frontisp. (map), pis. 1-4, figs. 1-26, San Francisco, ]day 30, 1945. ¾ol.t945 62•I RecentLiterature 645

measurementand in the amount of variation, itself, in different island populations of the same species. Some of the variants have been given distinctive names but others are consideredof lesser significance. Each island population is considered to have evolved independently but to have been subject to periodic disturbance through inter-island wandering. Species probably originated principally through geographically isolated races that later met and kept distinct, although some may be of hybrid origin. Changes in sea level at various periods have made inter-island connections and separations inconstant, and this partial and temporary isolation and sporadicintercommunication have supplied the factor of greatestimportance in the speciation of these birds. If any connection with the mainland ever occurred, it was before the arian colonization. If, as is maintained, the Tiaris [Euetheia]is the probable ancestralsource of these finches,Geospiza fuliginosa seemsto be the nearest approach to the primitive stock and Certhideathe farthest removedgprobably the first to split away from the remainder. Many other facts and conclusionsare brought out in this lucid and instructive paper--the broadest account that has appeared to date on this most interesting group of birds.--•. T. A rnonol•raph of the shrikes of the I•enu$ Lanius.•--One of the wonders of the second World War is that while so many branches of human activity had just disappearedfrom Europe along with the old way of living, a few seemto have miracu- lously survived. Ornithology appears to be one of the fortunate exceptions. L'Oiseau, which I founded in 1920 and edited until 1940, has come out regularly, if reduced in bulk, throughout the war under the devoted care of Messrs. Berlioz, •aboullle, Rapine, Legendre and a few others. Even a few special works on birds have been published and the present monograph is the most important of them. That it was printed at Rouen in 1943-1944, a tragic period during which the greatest part of this wonderful old city was destroyed by bombs, needs no comment. Georges Olivier has been for many years particularly interested in shrikesand has accumulateddata and information on all speciesof Lanius. I remember discussingthe present book with him as we were walking through the park at Cl&res, then the mecca of orni- thologists,today empty and devastated. The work was begun a few years before the war started and completedin September, 1943. After an excellent preface by •acques Berlioz and foreword by the author, comesthe first part consistingof an exhaustive study of the general characteristicsof the family and genus. The classi- fication adopted by the author is not revolutionary and follows in general that of G. SehiebelEl. ffir Orn., 54 (2): 161-219, 1906]. Fortunately he doesnot acceptany of the unhappy generic splitting proposedand accepted by several authors, nor doeshe deem it necessaryto describe new forms. He recognizesfour groups: A.--a primi- tive group composedof seven species:cristatus, isabellinus, tigrinus, collurio, guber- nator, collurioides,and vittatus. B.--Excubitor group with four species:bucephalus, excubitor,spl•enocerus, and ludovicianus. C.--Indo-Malayan group, composed of minor and schach,but in which L. validirostris, from the mountains of Mindoro and Luzon should have been included as a valid species. D.--African group, of nine species:excubitorius, cabanisi, collaris, newtoni, mackinnoni, dorsalis, nubicus, senator and souzae. The relationship of these groupsand speciesis discussedat length and a •ery good phyletic tree of all recognized forms is given. Much importance is r•ightlystressed in juvenileplumages. In the secondand muchlonger part of the

• OLIVlI•R. GEORGES. 'Monographie des Pies-Gri&ches du genre Lanius. Pp. 1-326, 17 plates, Leeerr. Rouen. 1944. 646 .ece,t [ work, all speciesand subspeciesare listed, with referencesto bibliography and icon- ography, detailed descriptions of adult male, female, immature and chick, field characters,distribution. nestingand habits. Many maps and a number of photo- graphsand coloredplates (8) illustrate this most useful,thorough and well conceived revision. An exhaustive bibliography of the subject follows, with some corrigenda and addenda. The whole work is very satisfactoryand I have no criticism to offer, with the exceptionof that concerningL. validirostrisand perhapsalso of the names given to the two northernforms related to L. schach. I am not yet convincedthat nipalensisshould replace tephronotus,and I still think it might be considereda separate species. More research remains to be carried out before a safe conclusion can be reached. The book is surprisinglywell produced. The paper is good and the plates are carefullyprinted. It is a monumentto the skill, knowledgeand courageof Georges Olivier, as well as to the ingenuity of the printers.--JEAN DEl`Acorm.

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NOTES AND NEWS Word has been received of the death of George Willett, Vice-President of the American Ornithologists'Union, on August 2, this year.

Information has come indirectly that the general collection of birdskins at the Berlin Museum is intact as is the library, but the mountedbirds, presumablyinclud- ing the Lichtenstein and Cabanis material, were destroyed. Dr. Erwin Stresemanu has resumed work at the Museum but Dr. Oskar Heinroth died of pneumonia on May 31, 1945. The Museum far Naturkunde was destroyed. At Bonn, Dr. yon Jordanshas written, the zoologicalcollections of the Alexander Koenig Museum escaped. Those of the SenckenbergianMuseum at Frankfort am Main, whereR/ippell's types and the Berlepschand Erlanger collectionswere housed, are of uncertain fate. Most of the material is said to be safe, but one funspecified] great ornithologicalcollection was destroyed. In Munich, the fossil vertebrates were destroyed and since the general collections were kept in the same building, they may have met the same fate. The CongoMuseum at Tervenren, Belgium,was nearly struck but the 'near miss' left the bird collectionsundamaged.

The Editor again must expresshis deepappreciation of the generousassistance givenby Dr. A. J. C. Vaurie and Mrs. Vaurie, of New York City, in the preparation of the lists of ornithologicalreferences given through the year under the headingof 'Periodical Literature.'