Bird lore - Project Puffin

the very things that Mr. Huxley would
now have on cards, but naturally no
single observer has opportunity for all
sorts of observations.
R. C. Murphy writes on the 'Anatidae
of South Georgia,' of which there are two
species—a Teal and a Goose introduced
from the Falkland Islands in 1910; W.
De W. Miller advocates a new classifica-
tion of the Scoters into two genera, Oidemia
and Melanitla; and Dr. C. W. Townsend,
in 'Notes on the Eider' by Johan Beetz,
believes that, because of intergradation
of characters, borealis and dresseri should
both be considered races of mollissima.
With 'Notes on the Birds of the Elk
Mountain Region, Colorado,' E. R. War-
ren has some good photographs of the
country, also of the nest of Wright's Fly-
catcher and of Macgillivray's Warbler.
H. Mousley presents a careful study of the
nesting of the Prairie Horned Lark at
Hatley, Quebec.
Under the caption, 'The Type Locality
of Colaptes cafer,' Dr. T. S. Palmer
cleverly brings together published evidence
to show the blunders made by early
writers, by which this Flicker was described
as coming from the Cape of Good
Hope, when the specimen probably came
from Vancouver Island.— J. D.
The Condor.—Of the seven general
articles in 'The Condor' for July, three
relate to birds of widely separated
localities in the South—in Cuba, Te.xas and
Arizona; two are local lists for Montana
and California; and two contain technical
descriptions of species. In 'Notes from the
U. S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba,' Dr. T. N. Richards gives an
account of the birds which have come
under his observation, chiefly during the
winter months, and includes a description
of the nest and eggs of the Grassquit
{Tiaris canora). It is interesting to note
that of the twenty species mentioned only
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five, the Brown Pelican, Frigate-Bird,
Little Blue Heron, Zenaida Dove and
Ani occur in the United States. 'Meeting
Spring Half-Way' is the picturesque title
adopted by Mrs. Bailey for the first part
of a description of the birds found in .•Kpril
in Texas, chiefly in the vicinity of Texar-
kana, Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi
Bay and Tule Lake. A trip in the Santa
Catalina Mountains, Arizona, in May,
1904, is described by F. C. Willard, who
collected eggs of Costa's Hummingbird,
the Gray Vireo, Arizona Cardinal, Zone-
tailed Hawk and Palmer's Thrasher.
Norman de W. Betts gives a briefly
annotated list of 48 species of 'Birds
seen in the Valley of the South Fork of the
Flathead River, Montana' in the summer
of 1915, and John G. Tyler contributes
'Migration and Field Notes from Fresno
Co., Calif.,' on 18 species observed chiefly
in 1914 and 1915.
The Sahuaro Screech Owl {Otus asio
gilniani) described by Swarth a few years
ago, from southern Arizona, was recently
reduced to synonymy by Ridgway in his
review of the Owls in 'The Birds of North
and Middle America.' After a reexamination
of the question and a study of some
30 specimens Swarth concludes that the
Sahuaro Owl is a recognizable race and that
there are two distinct types of Screech
Owls in southern Arizona, Olus a. cincra-
cetts in the higher mountains and Olus a.
gilmani in the hot lower Sonoran valleys.
Under the title, 'A New Ruffed Grouse
from the Yukon Valley,' Grinnell describes
Bonasa iimhcllus yukoncnsis from a specimen
collected at Forty-mile, on the Yukon
River near the Alaska boundary, on November
5, 1899, and now in the Museum
of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley, Calif.
Among the brief notes should be men-
tioned several interesting records of the
breeding of the Western Robin in or near
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, in 1915
and 1916.—T. S. P.