. Bird-lore . sons Merlin occur-ring about Denver during the spring, andthis spring adds another, a single bird having been detected in the outskirts onMay I, a date not very close to the firstrecord (April iq). The writer found a Mourning Dovesnest on May 30, with newly hatchedyoung, in the foot-hills near Denver, at analtitude of 6,800 feet, which is very earlyfor that date and altitude; this observa-tion may refute the writers general ideathat this seasons unusual warmth anddrjness had not affected migration. Onthe same day that this Doves nest wasfound, our party had the happy experienceof
. Bird-lore . sons Merlin occur-ring about Denver during the spring, andthis spring adds another, a single bird having been detected in the outskirts onMay I, a date not very close to the firstrecord (April iq). The writer found a Mourning Dovesnest on May 30, with newly hatchedyoung, in the foot-hills near Denver, at analtitude of 6,800 feet, which is very earlyfor that date and altitude; this observa-tion may refute the writers general ideathat this seasons unusual warmth anddrjness had not affected migration. Onthe same day that this Doves nest wasfound, our party had the happy experienceof watching, with naked eye and withglass, an enormous Golden Eagle, soaringoverhead for several minutes. The birdwas once not more than 500 feet above us,and as it sailed about in the varyingcircles, without a wing quiver, it was thepicture of a huge airplane, banking, andrising, and falling. Even our matter-of-fact company were enthusiastic over thisrare and yet remarkable sight.—W. , Denver, 2^oofe ^ehjg anti CCebiehJs; A Practical Handbook of BritishBirds. Edited by H. F. Witherby. with colored plates and nu-merous text figures. In eighteen I, pp. i-xvi, 64; March 3, 1919. PartII, pp. 65-128, .\pril 30, iQig. Price4s. per part. The present work diflfers so radically incharacter from its numerous predecessorsthat the authors need make no apologyfor adding another to the already largelist of books on British birds. Mr. Wither-by secured the cooperation of E. Hartert,A. C. Jackson, C. Oldham, F. C. and N. F. Ticehurst, each ofwhom treats of some department withwhich he is especially familiar, therebyadding greatly to the authoritativenessof the book as a whole. The book, unlike most other books inits field, abounds in analytical Keys. Thereare Keys to Orders, Families, Genera, andSpecies. The Key to Orders is of theillustrated type which was, we believefirst used in ornithology in the reviewersHandbook of Birds of Eastern
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