Book News and Reviews
experience in this method or researth and record, the subtitle or his work being tnlly borne out by its contents.
Though sometimes hantlieappetl by the lack oi proper apparatus, no one with ex- perience can view the results of Mr. job's camera hunting without realizing the ditfi» culties he has conquered in winning suce cess. Not only are Mr. Job‘s pir-tnres in~ teresting. little-known species, they torin a distincl
btrt, illustrating comparatively contribution to our knowledge of the habits of the birds treated; and. it should be es» pccially noted, they are eHetttlvely supp]:- mented by the accompanying text. Mr. Job. therefore. has achieved the desirable and by no means easy enrl of contributing to the literature of both popular and scien- tific ornitltology.-—F. M. C
CasslVlA; A BIRD ANNUAL. Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, oi Philadelphia. roor. Price. 50 cents. Xvo. 60 pages, r plate.
In a new, enlarged anti attractive form the fifth volume of proceedings of the Dclawar: Valley Club is issued under the above title. Formerly containing only an abstract of the club's work. it now adds several of the more important papers presented before the club, the present publication containing the following: ‘John Cassin,‘ by Witmcr Stone; ‘ Observations on the Summer Birds of Parts of Clinton and Potter counties. Pennsylvania,‘ by Francis R. Cope, Jrr; ‘Photographing a Nighthawk's Nest and Young (Chordeilu wirginianur),' by Wil» liam L. Baily (illustrated by photographs by the author); ‘A Walk to the Paoli Pine-Barrens,’ by William J, Serrill; ‘The Yellow-winged Sparrow ( rlmmadramur Jawanar/lm pasrerinur) in Eastern Penn— sylvania,‘by Samuel Wright; ‘Trespassing of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Zameladin Iurla‘vitiana) in the Carolinian Fauna,‘ by William Evans; ‘ Nesting oi the Mocking- birds (Mimlu polyglouor) in Eastern Penn— sylvania,‘ by W, E. Roberts and W. E. Hannum; ‘A Spring Migration Record for raggeroooghyr‘rank L. Burn ‘Birdsthat Struck the City Hall Tower During the Migrations of r9ot,' by W. L. Baily.
1 33 The Ornithological Magazines
The March-April number of “The Cone dor‘ presents an interesting assortment of field notes. description at the habits of the Scissote tailed Flycatcher in Texas by Mrs. Baileyv and this is followed by an account of col» letting eggs or the Long-billed Curie“ arid the Sharp-tailed Grouse in Montana b 1’. .\I. Sillmvay. Daggett contributes ‘\\ inter observations on the Colorado Dr'sel't.‘ Mollie Bryan some experiences with Anna's ‘te. notes on the nesting habits of the Black-cltinned Hunt- (Trar/ulnr Otto llolstein calls attention to the destruction
The leading article contains a
Hummingbird, and Wu
mingbird rilm'mldri ). or birds by petroleum along the railroads on the Colorado Desert. Where engines stand for any length of time in one place, the oil used for fuel drips down on the track, t‘ollet'ts into little pools and soon becomes as thick as molasses. The birds evidently mistaking the oil [or water, ltzet into the pasty mass and are caught like tires on fly. paper.
Systematic ornithology is represented by the description of another new Song Spar» row from the northwest coast (Melorpiza rinerea plum, Fisher] and the recognition by orinnell of the Fox Sparrow trcm Monrerey County, California, originally described many years ago. Walter Fisher contributes a critical article on the Crested jays oi the Pacific coast which shows hrietly but clearly the history and relations of the formsconsidercd worthy or recognition, It is accompanied by a key and an outline sketch map and is a valuable addition to the literature of the genus Cymmrilm. The author is to be congratulated on presenting the results of his study in a way which might be adopted by others with advantage. Descriptions of west coast birds too often consist of new names and merely outlines of charactch without proper indication of the relations which the new forms bear to the old—T, S. P,
The Ame—The July Auk contains a large number of articles, and is illustrated by several halt-tones. It opens with an
