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Jan., 1914 COMMUNICATIONS 43 busily waiting for a boat to sail for Juan Fernandez Island. The sailing was scheduled for a week ago, but schedules are often broken, one soon discovers here. We spent a 'month at Lake Titicaca in the Peruvian Andes, and noticed with interest the slower movement and long duration of the South American earthquake as compared with our California ones. We were sitting at the skinning table working on a bird skin, and discussed the quake during the movement as well as noting some movement in the stove pipe and trees near the window. The same "terremoto" shook things and towns much harder to the north and west of us. Going out in the patio the first morning after our arrival I was greatly surprised to see a California Qua!l in a large gage with several other birds. A couple of Cinnamon Teal and three or four native teal were in another cage, while a mudhen and a couple of tinamous had the liberty of the yard, and had been kept. there for over a year the owner said. It called up scenes in the Joa- quin ? to see Cinnamon Teal sitting about among the reeds in the lake. The black- birds. acted the same way as do the redwings, but their wings were yellow patched instead of red. The flamingos still interest me with their adaptability. Skirting the shores of the lake the morning we left, ice was seen along the edge and at one place we flushed four flamingos as the train rounded a point. They had beea getting a cold breakfast in the shallow water. In Pisco Bay, where sea- birds swarm, it enlightened me to see flamingos standing along the bay shore sur- rounded by pelicans, boobies and gulls, while cormorants fished close by them, and Surf- birds, with smaller shore-birds,. ran about their legs. Glancing out of the window here, I see the lookout barrel on the masthead of a whaler close by, in the bay, and I wonder that any- one could ever have discredited the belief in the efficacy of whaling stations as desirable collecting points for Tubinares. Hiring a boat yesterday, I rowed out past steamers and warships into the open ocean. The last warship had been passed less than a mile when a bunch of a dozen albatrosses were approached, sitting on the water. Some I might have killed with the auxiliary barrel; others sat about and mingled with the Sooty Shearwaters in their endless southern flight. Giant Fulmars fought with each other and the gulls at the city dump but a few feet from shore; while the grayish Fulmars re- minding one so much of the Pacific bird, acted as our northern ones do at Monterey. I often think of the modest request for a series of Skuas aftbr I'd turned in a couple at Monterey. Here they fly about the har? bors and sit on the water just to leeward, usually, of the gulls. One yesterday was picking. himself on a low-lying buoy, while the gulls, closely resembling the Western, perched above on a barge. Climbing up a canyon in the back part of town the other day to test some auxiliary shells, I heard the call of the California Quail in the brush. This canyon might have been matched in southern California with tl?e surroundings, though most of the birds dif- fered somevd?at. Particularly, the only hummer seen was one of the giant fellows resembling a Swift in flight, and in its call reminding me instantly of the. squeak of the rat I heard caught in a trap in the room overhead the night before! One sees many birds caged here, and some of them are nice singers. A couple of large, brightly.marked plover running loose in a small garden we admired greatly. Sincerely, R, H. BECK. Valparaiso, .Chile, November 9, I913. PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED. T?E ORE?o?,r SVOR?SMA?,r. Pui?lished monthly under the direction of WILLIAM L. Fi?rL?:Y, State Game Warden, 806-7-8 Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon. Price 5 cents a copy, 50 cents a year. When we heard of a state game warden in Oregon who believed in education rather than police patrol as a means of enforcing game laws, we wondered what methods would be used. Up to the present time we have been made acquainted with two meth- ods, both of which are timely and will with- out doubt meet with great success. The first is a series of lectures on game given through- out the state. The second is a new publica- tion called "The Oregon Sportsman," which is now four months old, the first number hav- ing appeared in September, 1913. The particularly noticeable characteristics of this new pubhcation and which are bound to make it successful are, first, the attractive cover, usually a reproduction of a photograph of some game animal or bird in the wild; second, the catchy headings and "readable- hess" of the text, and third, the small cost. The contents of each number is distributed under three main headings---editorials, gen- eral notes, and notes from counties. An oc- casional short article is contributed, and the first number contained a report of the hunt- ing and fishing licenses sold. An idea of the editorial column can be had from the fol- lowing gleaned from the first number: "The State Board of Fish and Game Commis- sioners is striving to make fishing and hunt-