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Lodge on Great Egg Harbor River, three miles north-
west of Mays Landing, New Jersey, by Francis Harper.

Published Writings
of Edward Alexander Preble
(1871-1957)

BY

W. L. McATEE and FrRANcIs HARPER

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
The University of Kansas

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

Museum OF NATURAL HIsTORY

EDITOR: E. RAYMOND HALL

Miscellaneous Publication No. 40, pp. 1-16
Published August 16, 1965

Lawrence - Kansas

PRINTED BY
ROBERT R. (BOB) SANDERS, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1965

Published Writings
of Edward Alexander Preble
(1871-1957 )

By W. L. McATEE and FrRANcIs HARPER

This bibliography is intended to supplement a memorial of Preble
published in The Auk (McAtee, 1962). It is doubtless incomplete,
for we have found it impossible to identify all of his contributions
to Nature Magazine, a considerable proportion of them having been
published anonymously. He had been consulting naturalist on the
staff of the magazine from 1924 to 1935, and associate editor from
1935 onward.

Fortunately, there are two separate card catalogues of Preble’s
publications in the Fish and Wildlife Service in Washington: a
larger one, of about 127 titles, kept in the United States National
Museum building, and a smaller one, of about 18 titles, kept in the
Department of the Interior building. The first consists mainly
of his contributions to Nature Magazine for the years 1924 to 1935,
before his retirement from the Biological Survey. For this period
the record appears to be fairly complete, except for some anony-
mous contributions. There have been added to it the titles of
various other publications as early as 1893 and as late as 1948; a
good many of these appeared elsewhere than in Nature Magazine.
It includes anonymous articles ascribed to Preble as well as those
signed with his name or at least his initials. This part may have
had the benefit of Preble’s own records or guidance. It was com-
piled by Emma Charters and was placed at our disposal through
the courtesy of Chandler S. Robbins and Richard H. Manville, of
the Fish and Wildlife Service. The second and smaller part was
kindly made available by George W. Cain, editor of the Fish and
Wildlife Service. We have utilized also, through the courtesy of
David H. Johnson, a card file of Preble’s publications on mam-
malogy, which is kept in the Division of Mammals, United States
National Museum. His publishing activity covered a span of 63
years (1893 to 1956).

Still another good source of information is a collection of carbon
copies of about 80 typewritten manuscripts, which one of us (F. H.)
examined in Preble’s Washington home in 1958. Many of these

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carbon copies bear his name or initials. More than 90 per cent of
the manuscripts were published in Nature Magazine: some with his
name, some with his initials, and some anonymously. The remain-
der, not located in print anywhere, were perhaps not published
at all.

Additional means of determining the authorship of notes, edi-
torials, and reviews that Preble published anonymously have been:
information in the indexes of Nature Magazine; Preble’s distribu-
tion of separates to his friends; the personal knowledge of some of
his friends. In still other cases there is sufficient intrinsic evidence
in the articles themselves to cause us to feel justified in including
them in the bibliography. All of the publications in these several
categories are indicated by the insertion of “(anon.)” immediately
after the year of publication, except that this notation is omitted
in cases where the evidence is found in the indexes of Nature
Magazine. Where the authorship has been determined (or appar-
ently determined) by intrinsic evidence, a parenthetical note to
that effect follows the citation. In a very few cases, where some
slight doubt as to the authorship may remain, a question mark is
placed at the beginning of the citation.

Preble’s daughter, Mrs. William F. Walter, has been particularly
kind in giving us access to various materials remaining in his home,
including manuscripts, personal records, and such a rare journal as
Sports Afield, in which some of his early and particularly interesting
popular papers appeared.

For other assistance with this bibliography, we make grateful
acknowledgment to Paul F. Hannah, Ida K. Johnson, Paul H. Oeh-
ser, Norman A. Preble, Mrs. J. Schachter (of the Blacker-Wood
Library, McGill University), Florence Warnick, and Howard
Zahniser.

As far as known, no entries were made in any office set of Nature
Magazine to indicate authorship of the numerous notes and articles
that were published anonymously (Evelyn Preble Walter, in litt.,
March 10, 1963).

In the list of publications that follows, Preble’s name is not re-
peated for those of which he was the sole author. In cases of joint
authorship, the names of the authors are inserted within parentheses
after the year of publication; their sequence, and the form in which
each one appeared in the original publication, are strictly preserved.
The sequence of names in the bird-census reports by Preble, Mc-
Atee, Wetmore, and several other associates (published in Bird-

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Lore) does not indicate seniority; the manuscript drafts of these
reports were drawn up by whichever partner found it convenient
at the time, and he arranged the names as suited his fancy.

The given names of those who collaborated with Preble in various
publications were not invariably printed in full. We supply that
lack, as far as we have been able to do so, in the following list:

Florence Merriam Bailey Waldo Lee McAtee
William Bonar Bell Clinton Hart Merriam
Arthur Cleveland Bent Edward William Nelson
Harold Child Bryant Wilfred Hudson Osgood
Bayard Henderson Christy Theodore Sherman Palmer
Lee Raymond Dice George Howard Parker
Albert Kenrick Fisher Stanley E. Piper

Frederick Charles Lincoln William Edwin Saunders

Entities (subgenera, species, and subspecies) that Preble pro-
posed as new are indicated by bold-faced type in parenthetical
notes following the citations of the papers in which the names were
first published. It may be significant of Preble’s philosophy of life,
in emphasizing the things of real importance and lasting value,
that he described his last new animal (Microsorex winnemana) in
1910. Thereafter, as far as publication was concerned, he became
increasingly intent on the beauties and wonders of nature and the
impelling need of preserving them for posterity.

Presumably each issue (or nearly every issue) of Nature Maga-
zine was actually published during the month preceding the one
named on the cover. If this were a definitely established fact, each
January issue should be dated as of December in the preceding
year. However, in the absence of exact or complete information,
the dates assigned in this bibliography accord with the years printed
on the covers of the magazine.

Seven mammals and one fish were named in honor of Preble by
his colleagues on the Biological Survey. In one case his younger
brother, Alfred E., was included in the commemoration: preblorum.
A chronological list follows:

Phenacomys preblei Merriam, 1897

Marmota monax preblorum A. H. Howell, 1914
Coregonus preblei Harper and Nichols, 1919
Perodipus microps preblei Goldman, 1921

Sorex preblei Jackson, 1922

Lutra canadensis preblei Goldman, 1935
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus preblei A. H. Howell, 1936
Peromyscus truei preblei V. Bailey, 1936

Preble’s published output (including joint papers) consisted of
about 239 identifiable items, covering a total of about 1,500 pages.
In the case of joint papers, only a proportional part of the pages

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have been credited to him. A fractional part of a page at the be-
ginning or the end of a publication is counted as a full page. The
biological footnotes (usually brief) in Hearne (1911) and Thomp-
son (1916) have been credited at their approximate equivalent in
full pages (12 and 10, respectively). The reprintings of Preble’s
original publications that have appeared in other journals or in
books have not been included in the total number of pages.

In an attempt to classify Preble’s publications by subject matter,
only a very rough approximation is possible, as follows: mammals,
43; birds, 87; reptiles, 4; amphibians, 5; fishes, 8; insects or other
invertebrates, 9; plant life, 12; biography, 8; reviews, 62; conserva-
tion, 30; general or miscellaneous, 17. A brief glance at this list
will reveal Preble’s major interests in natural history. <A single
comprehensive work, such as North American Fauna 27 (1908),
may be counted in each of more than half a dozen categories. A
brief paper, dealing with the need of protecting the Woodcock,
for example, may be credited in the category of birds and in that
of conservation as well. There is a predominant note of conserva-
tion in many of his papers, especially those of the later years.

Needless to say, Preble’s output might have been far greater, and
his expression much freer, if most of his productive years had not
been spent in the restrictive atmosphere of a government bureau.
The wonder is that he accomplished so much as he did. His in-
domitable spirit, nurtured in youth on the soil of freedom-loving
New England, still sustained him through the trials of subsequent
years. As a youngster, how he must have thrilled at the thought of
the hoofbeats of Paul Revere’s horse having broken the stillness of
that April night in his own native Somerville!

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Nesting of the Red-breasted Nuthatch. Ornithologist and Oologist
18(4):60.

Description of a new weasel from the Queen Charlotte Islands, B. C.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 12:169-170. August 10. (Putorius hai-
darum, p. 169.)

Description of a new lemming mouse from the White Mountains, New
Hampshire. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 13:43-45, 1 fig. May 29.
(Synaptomys (Mictomys) sphagnicola, p. 43.)

Revision of the jumping mice of the genus Zapus. U.S. Dept. Agric.,
No. Am. Fauna 15:1-42, 1 pl., 4 fig. August 8. (Napaeozapus (sub-
genus), p. 33; Eozapus (subgenus), p. 37; Zapus hudsonius campes-
tris, p. 20: Z. princeps minor, p. 23; Z. p. oregonus, p. 24; Z. major,
p. 24: Z. nevadensis, p. 25; Z. orarius, p. 29; Z. (Napaeozapus ) insignis
roanensis, p. 35; Z. (Napaeozapus) i. abietorum, p. 36.)

The summer birds of western Maryland. Maryland Geol. Survey, Alle-
gany County: 296-307. Baltimore.

Descriptions of new species of Synaptomys and Phenacomys from Mac-
kenzie, Canada. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 15:181-182. August 6.
(Synaptomys (Mictomys) bullatus, p. 181; Phenacomys mackenzii, p.
182. )

A biological investigation of the Hudson Bay region. U. S. Dept.
Agric., No. Am. Fauna 22:1-140, 13 pl., 1 map. October 31. (Micro-
tus aphorodemus, p. 52; Fiber zibethicus hudsonius, p. 53; Lepus arc-
ticus canus, p. 59; Lutreola vison lacustris, p. 66; Mustela americana
abieticola, p. 68; Sorex (Microsorex) alnorum, p. 72.)

[The notes of the Yellow Rail.] P. 458 in: F. B. McKechnie, A late
spring record for the Yellow Rail (Porzana noveboracensis) in Massa-
chusetts, with remarks on the “ornithological mystery.” Auk 23(4):
457-458.

Up the Athabasca with the fur-traders. Wide World Mag. (October):
604-614, 9 fig., 1 map.

A biological investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. U. S.
Dept. Agric., No. Am. Fauna 27:1-574, 21 pl., 12 fig., 8 maps. October
26. (Evotomys gapperi athabascae, p. 178.)

1910? School children of the Far North. Sunday School Times (vol.,
issue, and pp.? Not seen. )

Fishermen of the Far North. Sports Afield 44(3):222-225, 1 fig.
Wintering on the Mackenzie. Sports Afield 44(5):400-408, 3 fig.
Across the Barren Grounds to Hudson’s Bay. Sports Afield 44(6) :502-
511, 8 fig.; 45(1):80-88, 4 fig.; (2):180-186, 3 fig.; (8):230-287, 2
fig.; (4) :323-329, 2 fig.

A new Microsorex from the vicinity of Washington, D. C. Proc. Biol.
Soc. Washington 23:101-102. June 24. (Microsorex winnemana, p.
101.)

(C. Hart Merriam, Vernon Bailey, E. W. Nelson, and E. A. Preble).
Fourth provisional zone map of North America. U. S. Biological Survey.

This map (in color) was not only distributed in separate sheets by the Bio-
logical Survey, but was bound—as a frontispieee—in each copy of the third
edition of the Check-list of North American Birds, prepared by a committee of
the American Ornithologists’ Union (New York, August, 1910).

List of plants noted on the Seton Expedition, 1907. Appendix E in:
Emest Thompson Seton, The Arctic prairies: 328-338. New York.

(Edward A. Preble and Ernest Thompson Seton). A list of the mam-
mals noted on the Seton Expedition of 1907. Appendix F in: Ernest
Thompson Seton, The Arctic prairies: 339-358. New York.

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List of birds noted on the Seton Expedition of 1907 by E. T. Seton and
E. A. Preble. Appendix G in: Ernest Thompson Seton, The Arctic
prairies: 359-405. New York.

Anent the real authorship of the three appendices listed above (all of them
published ostensibly under Seton’s sole authorship), I have the following entry in
my journal:

“On Friday evening, June 17, 1949, at Preble’s home in Washington, I got
the following information from him concerning the authorship of the appendices
in Seton’s Arctic Prairies. Years ago Preble had told me how incensed he was
at the lack of credit given him in the first (1911) edition. Thereupon he had
written Seton ‘a real letter, which resulted in some slight but incomplete amends
being made in the second impression (1912) of the first edition.

“He now showed me his copy of the original 1911 edition, presented to him
by Seton. On page 359, appendix G, there is a penciled note in Preble’s hand
after the title: “by E. A. Preble. That is enough for me. I shall credit the list
of birds to Preble in my bibliographical references.

“In regard to the appendix on plants, p. 328, he remarked: ‘I wrote this
list of plants, too. He said he did ‘pretty much’ all of the plant collecting.

“On page 339 of the original 1911 edition, where the mammal list begins,
no authorship is specified. In the second impression (1912) this page says ‘by
E. T. Seton and E. A. Preble’ [but, if I remember rightly, it is merely to indicate
that the observations or collections were made by those two, rather than to
specify authorship].

“In the original edition, Preble has marked with marginal pencil lines those
small portions of the mammal list contributed by Seton. The main part of this
list is obviously Preble’s sole work. Certain passages here and there have quite
evidently been inserted by Seton.”

The several impressions of a later edition (1917, 1923, 1943, and others?)
lack the appendices.—F. H.

Here McAtee begins: ‘“‘I was aware of this situation years ago and was sur-
prised that I resented it more than Preble apparently did. From the information
supplied by Harper, it is evident that the bird and plant lists should be cited as
solely of Preble’s authorship and only the mammal list as by Preble and Seton.”

Report on condition of elk in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 1911. U. S.
Dept. Agric., Biol. Survey Bull. 40:1-23, 5 pls., 2 maps.

[Biological footnotes.] In: Samuel Hearne, A journey from Prince of
Wales's Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean in the years 1769,
1770, 1771, and 1772. Edited by J. B. Tyrrell. Publ. Champlain Soc.
6. Toronto:xv + 487, 15 pl., 12 maps.

“T wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Edward A. Preble of the
Biological Survey, Washington, D. C., . . . who has so kindly annotated
chapter X on the fauna and flora of Hudson Bay, and has also added the notes
to which his initials are attached in other parts of the volume” (J. B. Tyrrell,
p. 23).

Official report on Wyoming elk. Outdoor Life 30:210-215, illus.

(Edward A. Preble and W. L. McAtee). Christmas census. Long
Bridge to Rosslyn, Va.; Cabin John Bridge to Plummer’s Island, Md.
Bird-Lore 15(1):32. (26 species. )

(E. A. Preble, S. E. Piper and W. L. McAtee). Christmas census.
Rosslyn to Wellington, Va. Bird-Lore 16(1):39-40. (388 species. )

(E. A. Preble and Alex Wetmore). Christmas census. Aqueduct
Bridge, Georgetown, D. C., to Wellington, Va. Bird-Lore 17(1):35.
(40 species. )

(Wilfred H. Osgood, Edward A. Preble, and George H. Parker). The
fur seals and other life of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, in 1914. [U. S.]
Dept. Commerce, Bureau Fisheries Bull. 34 (Document 820):1-172, 18
pl., 24 maps. June 19. (Also published as Senate Document 980,
63rd Congress, 3rd session. )

(W. L. McAtee, Alex. Wetmore and E. A. Preble). Christmas census.
Aqueduct Bridge, Georgetown, D. C., to Wellington, Fairfax Co., Va.
Bird-Lore 18(1):29. (39 species. )

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[Biological footnotes.] In: David Thompson’s narrative of his explora-
tions in western America 1784-1812. Edited by J. B. Tyrrell. Publ.
Champlain Soc, 12. Toronto: xeviii + 582, 21 pl., 2 maps.

“Mr. E. A. Preble . . . has very kindly added notes on the
animals and plants mentioned by Thompson, thus greatly adding to
the scientific value of the book” (p. xxi).

(A. K. Fisher, W. L. McAtee, E. A. Preble and Alex. Wetmore).
Christmas census. Rosslyn to Four-mile Run, and Oaks to Wellington,
Va. Bird-Lore 19(1):25. (89 species. )

(W. L. McAtee, E. A. Preble, and Alexander Wetmore). Winter birds
about Washington, D. C., 1916-1917. Wilson Bull. 29(4):183-187.
One list of 48 species (Mount Vernon to Dyke, Va.); total for the
winter by several observers, 81 species.

(Waldo McAtee and Edward A. Preble). Christmas census. Mount
Vernon to Dyke, Va. (by way of Dogue Creek). Bird-Lore 20(1):39.
(39 species. )

(W. L. McAtee, Alexander Wetmore, and Edward A. Preble). Christ-
mas census. Mt. Vernon to Dyke, Va. (via Dogue Creek). Bird-Lore
21(1):39. (38 species. )

(Alex. Wetmore, E. A. Preble, W. L. McAtee). Christmas census. Mt.
Vernon, Dogue Creek, Gum Springs and Warwick, Va. Bird-Lore
22(1):33. (42 species. )

(W. L. McAtee, E. A. Preble and Francis Harper). Christmas census.
Mount Vernon to Dyke, Va. Bird-Lore 23(1):19. (41 species seen;
2 others heard. )

Philadelphia Vireo in Montana. Condor 23(4):138.

Saunders on the birds of Montana. [Review of Pacific Coast Avifauna
14 (1921).] Condor 23(4):139-142.

Cassin’s Kingbird in Montana. Condor 23(5):166-167.

(Edward A. Preble, Alexander Wetmore and W. L. McAtee). Christ-
mas census. Woodlawn, Dogue Creek, Mt. Vernon, and Snowden’s, Va.
Bird-Lore 24(1):25. (47 species. Also English Sparrow. )

Roderick Ross MacFarlane, 1833-1920. Auk 39(2):203-210, 1 pl.,
1 fig.

(W. L. McAtee, E. A. Preble, and A. Wetmore). Christmas census.
Dogue Creek, Mt. Vernon, Riverside, and Dyke, Va. Bird-Lore 25
(1):26-27. (41 species. Also English Sparrow. )

Introduction, life zone relationships, mammals, and bibliography. In:
Edward A. Preble and W. L. McAtee, A biological survey of the
Pribilof Islands, Alaska. U. S. Dept. Agric., No. Am. Fauna 46, I:
1-9, 102-128, 3 pl., 3 maps. June 20.

(Edward A. Preble and W. L. McAtee). Birds. In: Edward A.
Preble and W. L. McAtee, A biological survey of the Pribilof Islands,
Alaska. U.S. Dept. Agric., No. Am. Fauna 46, I:10-101, 1 pl. June 20.

Death of Frank Blake Webster. Jour. Mammalogy 4(3):196-197.

(E. A. Preble, Alex Wetmore and W. L. McAtee). Christmas census.
Dogue Creek, Va. Bird-Lore 26(1):32. (40 species. Also English
Sparrow. )

The great anteater. Nature Mag. 4(3):158, 1 fig.

(“P. A. Edwards”—a pseudonym). <A stranded whale. Nature Mag.
4(4):208, 212, 1 fig.

The chigger or harvest mite. Nature Mag. 4(4):232, 255, 2 fig.

The Jamaican Iguana. Nature Mag. 4(4):241, 251, 1 fig.

Two-toed sloth. Nature Mag. 4(6):350, 382. 1 fig.

(E. A. Preble, Alex. Wetmore, and W. L. McAtee). Christmas census.

Dogue Creek and Mount Vernon, Va. Bird-Lore 27(1):42. (49
species. Also English Sparrow. )

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Penguins, birds of the Antarctic seas. Nature Mag. 5(2):89-94, 7 fig.
Metamorphosis of the Spring Frog. Nature Mag. 5(4):232, 1 fig.
(anon.). The chachalaca. Nature Mag. 5(5):293, 1 fig.
The lover of nature. Nature Mag. 5(6):342.

This was reprinted in Nature Magazine 20(2):74, 1932, and 50
(10):537, 1957; and distributed in card form (5 x 3146 inches) as a
bookmark.

(anon.). The jabiru, an American stork. Nature Mag. 5(6):360, 1 fig.
(anon.). The bull-frog and his cousins. Nature Mag. 5(6):378, 1 fig.
The yellow swallow-tailed butterfly. Nature Mag. 6(1):31, 5 ee

Fur seals of the Pribilof Islands. Nature Mag. 6(4):226-230, 5 fig.
The insistent Katydid. Nature Mag. 6(5):305, 1 fig.

A hemlock spray. Nature Mag. 7(1):6.

Musk-oxen, cattle of the Arctic. Nature Mag. 7(1):10-12, 5 fig.
(anon.). The Arctic Puffin. Nature Mag. 7(1):30, 1 fig.

Guardian of the king’s treasure. Nature Mag. 7(1):43, 1 fig.

Silver fox, prince of fur-bearers. Nature Mag. 7(2):73-75, 5 fig.
(anon.). A home made of paper. Nature Mag. 7(2):90, 1 fig.

A fisherman of the depths, Nature Mag. 7(2):93, 1 fig.

(E. A. Preble, Alexander Wetmore, and W. L. McAtee). Christmas
census. Dogue Creek, Va. Bird-Lore 28(1):33. (39 species. Also
Sushkin’s English Weaver Bird. )

Bird of paradise flower. Nature Mag. 7(3):152, 1 fig.

(anon.). Grasshopper gray. Nature Mag. 7(3): 171, 1 fig.

When it rained lemmings. Nature Mag. 7(4):206, 1 fig.

The Mackenzie watershed; northern Hudson Bay region, upper Yukon
region, and the Arctic islands. In: Victor E. Shelford (ed.), Natural-
ist’s guide to the Americas: 115-141. Baltimore.

The Western Meadowlark in northern British Columbia. Condor 28
(2):96.
The blood-stained cockatoo. Nature Mag. 7(5):292, 1 fig.

Naturalist’s guide. [Review of Victor E. Shelford (cd); Naturalist’s
guide to the Americas (1926).] Nature Mag. 7(6):327-328.

(anon.). The White-tailed Deer has twin babies. Nite Mag. 7(6):
337, 1 fig.

Spittle insects. Nature Mag. 7(6):371, 1 fig.

The odorous squash bug. Nature Mag. 8(1):28, 1 fig.
Introducing the Kiwi or Apteryx. Nature Mag. 8(1):54-55, 1 fig.
(anon.). The meadow bluet. Nature Mag. 8(1):55, 1 fig.
Bubo, the Great Horned Owl. Nature Mag. 8(2):102, 1 fig.

The crawfish and his burrow. Nature Mag. 8(2):112, 1 fig.

The Southern Sea Elephant. Nature Mag. 8(3):167, 1 fig.
Caribou of the Arctic. Nature Mag. 8(4):218-222, 5 fig.

The Mud-skipper. Nature Mag. 8(5):304, 1 fig.

[Review of] John Rowley, Taxidermy and museum exhibition (1925).
Jour. Mammalogy 7(4) :336-337.

The Kinkajou. Nature Mag. 8(6):334, 1 fig.
The silent cave cricket. Nature Mag. 8(6):339, 1 fig.
Mouse-opossums. Nature Mag. 8(6):359, 1 fig.

Books on bird migration. [Reviews of A. Landsborough Thomson,
Problems of bird migration (1926), and Alexander Wetmore, The mi-
gration of birds (1926).] Nature Mag. 9(1):4-5

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A plea for our hawks. Nature Mag. 9(1):30-32, 3 fig.
The Cassowary. Nature Mag. 9(1):56, 1 fig.
(E. A. Preble, Alexander Wetmore, and W. L. McAtee). Christmas
census. Dogue Creek, Va. Bird-Lore 29(1):12. (50 species. Also
English Sparrow. )
January in nature (and a similar title for each of the remaining months
of the ers Eee Maes 1 )r 22223. 5 (2)) SENS (Sivas:
(4):16-17; (5):10; (6):12: (7):5; (8):10; (9):8; (10):9-10; (11):
Ge. (CIP) aay (Part ioe pee the same series of essays were pub-
lished in Nature Magazine for the same year. See next entry. )
ase calendar: March; April; May; June. Nature Mag. 9(3):141;
4):209; (5):277; (6):347. (These essays probably identical with
nee of somewhat similar titles published in The Elementary Magazine
for the same months of 1927. See preceding entry. )

Snowy owls come south. Nature Mag. 9(2):122-123.

The vanishing woodcock. Nature Mag. 9(4):235, 238-240, 4 fig
( Also appeared in Maryland Conservationist 4(3):9-11, 1 Bee 1927.)
Our woodcock and his cousins. Am. Game 16(5):78-79, 2 fig.

Mammal society meets. Nature Mag. 9(6):394.

About the beaver. [Review of Edward R. Warren, The beaver, its
work and its ways (1927).] Nature Mag. 10(4):210.

In the wilderness. [Review of Townsend Whelen, Wilderness hunting
and wildcraft (1927).] Nature Mag. 10(4):212.

Our disappearing fur bearers. Nature Mag. 10(6):375-381, 2 pl., 6
fig. (Reprinted, with revisions, by Am. Nature Assoc., Washington:
1-23, 6 pl., 1928. Also reprinted in: Francis E. Clarke opel
Wild animals: great wild animal stories of our day: 223-237, 193¢
New York. )

(W. L. McAtee, E. A. Preble and Alexander Wetmore). Christmas
census. Dogue Creek, Va. Bird-Lore 30(1):45. (41 species. )

Our singing wood snipe. Univ. State of New York Bull. to the Schools
14(13):180-183, 4 fig.

The sportsman and the woodcock. Twenty-seven to one are the odds.
Nature Mag. 12(2):113, 1 fig.

Predatory birds and game. [Includes a review of August Brinkmann,
“Coccidiosis in willow grouse” (1927).] Nature Mag. 12(3):194-195.
Diseases in captive animals. [Review of Herbert Fox, Diseases in cap-
tive wild animals and birds.] Nature Mag. 12(3):208.

California mammals—past and present. Nature Mag. 12(4):259-261,
Dilay, G) sthep

(T. S. Palmer, Lee R. Dice, and Edward A. Preble). Report of the
committee [of the American Society of Mammalogists] on conservation
of land mammals. Jour. Mammalogy 9(4):352-354.

The Peregrine Falcon. Nature Mag. 13(1):42, 1 fig.

Heath Hen biography. [Review of Alfred O. Gross, The Heath Hen
(1928).] Nature Mag. 13(1):64.

(anon.). High school zoology. [Review of text by J. F. Calvert, M. A.
and J. H. Cameron (1928).] Nature Mag. 13(1):65

(E. A. Preble, Alexander Wetmore, and W. L. McAtee). Christmas
census. Dogue Creek, Va. Bird-Lore 31(1):39-40. (46 species. Also
English Sparrow. )

The flower-pot bird house. Nature Mag. 13(3):183, 1 fig.
Chocorua. Nature Mag. 13(5):289, 1 fig.
Edward H. Forbush passes. Nature Mag. 13(6):409.

1930
1930.

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Book on Pennsylvania birds. [Review of George Miksch Sutton, An
introduction to the birds of Pennsylvania (1928).] Nature Mag. 13(6):
414.

The oak. Nature Mag. 14(2):116, 1 fig.

Value of Jersey hawks. [Review of L. A. Hausman, The hawks of New
Jersey (1927).] Nature Mag. 14(2):127.

Vertebrate zoology. [Review of text by G. R. De Beer (1928).] Na-
ture Mag. 14(2):127.

A persistent bracket fungus. Nature Mag. 14(3):173, 2 fig.

Cruelty behind dainty furs. Nature Mag. 14(3):182.

Jordan’s Manual. [Review of David Starr Jordan, Manual of the verte-
brates (1929).] Nature Mag. 14(3):187.

John Warren Achorn. Auk 46(4):582-583.

(anon.). Things to think about: Texas mourning doves; seasons for
killing doves; a public benefactor, Nature Mag. 15(1):51. (Another
note under the same heading on this page is signed R. W. W[estwood]
and is not included in the citation. )

(E. A. Preble, W. L. McAtee, and Alex. Wetmore). Christmas census.
Dogue Creek, Va. Bird-Lore 32(1):38-39. (41 species. Also English
Sparrow. )

(anon.). The sentimentalist. Nature Mag. 15(2):78.

[Review of] Harold Child Bryant, Outdoor heritage (1929). Jour.
Mammalogy 11(1):90-91.

North American mosquitoes. [Includes brief review of Robert Mathe-
son, The mosquitoes of North America (1929).] Nature Mag. 15(3):
136-137.

(anon.). The bald eagle, our emblem. Nature Mag. 15(3):141.

Our owls in fable and fact. The romantic history of a much persecuted
race. Nature Mag. 15(3):143-148, 188-189, 11 fig.

(anon.). Things to think about: west coast billboards; the woodcock’s
journey; sportsman and farmer; save “Billy-Blue-Gum.” Nature Mag.
15(8):182.

(anon.). The Yellowstone Park boundary. Nature Mag. 15(4):213.

(anon.). Things to think about: killing our eider ducks; wanted—
a change; the plight of ruffed grouse; a Bird Lovers’ League; flappers
and furs. Nature Mag. 15(4):254.

Birds of Hiawatha land. Here myriad migrants rest on their journeys.
Nature Mag. 15(5):293-296, 334, 17 fig.

(anon.). The Bobwhite in Ohio. Nature Mag. 15(5):332.
(anon.). Protect the woodcock. Nature Mag. 15(5):332.

The big pickerel of Pine River. Being a recollection of days by the
shores of fair Lake Ossipee. Nature Mag. 15(6):368-370, 3 fig.

(anon.). Things to think about: Missouri bobwhites: steel trap legis-
lation; a changed viewpoint needed; late nesting of doves; more Ohio
bobwhites; the plight of wild life; the protected bobwhite. Nature
Mag. 16(1):60.

Tin peddlers and small boys. Carroll County Independent (Center
Ossipee, N. H.), July 25:2 pp.

Aquatic mammals. [Review of A. Brazier Howell, Aquatic mammals,
their adaptations to life in the water (1930).] Nature Mag. 16(2):72.

(anon.). The farmer and the sportsman, Nature Mag. 16(2):77. —
The hermit thrush. Nature Mag. 16(3):151, 1 fig.

(“A woodsman”). Washington’s doomed tulip trees. Nature Mag,
16(4):214, 263, 1 fig.

(anon.) The ruffed grouse in 1930. Nature Mag. 16(5):318, 1 map.

1935.
1935.

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Predatory birds and game. Nature Mag. 16(5):318.

(anon.). Musk-oxen for Alaska. Nature Mag. 16(5):320.

(Alexander Wetmore, E. A. Preble, and F. C. Lincoln). Christmas
census. Dogue Creek, Va. Bird-Lore 33(1):47. (48 species. Also
English Sparrow. )

[Review of] Ernest Thompson Seton, Game animals and the lives they
live (4 vols., 1925-1928). Reissued in 8 parts, 1929. Jour. Mam-
malogy 12(1):83-84.

[Review of] Tappan Gregory, Deer at night in the north woods (1930).
Jour. Mammalogy 12(1):84-85.

[Review of] Vernon Bailey, Animal life of Yellowstone National Park
(1930). Jour. Mammalogy 12(1):85.

A chat with authors. Jour. Mammalogy 12(1):97-98. (A gem.)
Memorandum for Mr. [Paul G.] Redington. In: Harold R. Basford,
Gulls vs. ducks. Pacific Sportsman 12(5):7, 25, 28.

The migrant redstart. Nature Mag. 17(6):393, 1 fig.

The largest crystal ball. It rests in the National Museum. Nature
Mag. 18(1):64-65, 1 fig.

A triple robin’s nest. Nature Mag. 18(3):188, 1 fig.

Whittier’s tree. Beneath it the poet wrote his lays. Nature Mag.
19(1):48, 1 fig.

About W. S. Blatchley. [Review of Blatchleyana, a list of the pub-
ushee writings of W. S. Blatchley (1930).] Nature Mag. 19(3):135-
136.

Birds of the Stanford campus. [Review of John B. Price, Familiar birds
of the Stanford campus (1931).] Nature Mag. 19(3):136.

The white-crowned sparrow. Nature Mag. 19(4):243, 1 fig.

The black-capped chickadee. Nature Mag. 19(4):250, 1 fig.

Blatchley’s latest book. [Review of W. S. Blatchley, My nature nook
(1931).] Nature Mag. 20(3):140.

(H. C. Bryant (chairman), Florence M. Bailey, A. C. Bent, B. H.
Christy, Hoyes Lloyd, E. A. Preble, and W. E. Saunders). Report of
Committee on Bird Protection, American Ornithologists’ Union. Auk
50(1):87-90. (Also in Nature Magazine 21(4):198, 1933.)

Facts about our fur seals. National Humane Rev. 21(11):22-23, 2 fig.
Wild life declining. Washington (D.C.) Post, November 5:6.

(anon.). Waterfowl problem. Nature Mag. 24(1):47-48. (Intrinsic
evidence of authorship. )

(W. B. Bell and E. A. Preble). Status of waterfowl in 1934. U. S.
Dept. Agric. Misc. Publ. 210:1-18, 24 maps.

Waterfowl breeding grounds of far north now poorly tenanted. U. S.
Dept. Agric. Yearbook 1935: 326-328.

Waterfowl breeding grounds of Canada, viewed from a continental
standpoint. Am. Game 24(2):20, 26-27, 1 fig.

Audubon, the American woodsman. The life of the great artist-naturalist
whose anniversary is being celebrated this month. Nature Mag. 25(4):
161-165, 4 fig.

(anon.). Shall we save our waterfowl? Nature Mag. 26(2):115-116,
1 fig., 1 map. (Reprinted in Christian Science Monitor with a slight
change of title. See second entry below. )

Frank Harris Hitchcock. Auk 52(4):490-491.
Will America save its waterfowl? Christian Science Monitor, weekly

magazine section, October 16:2, 15, 1 fig., 1 map. (See second entry
above. )

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1937.

1937

1937.

1937.

1938.

1938.

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1938.

1938.

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(anon.). Firelighting woodcock. Nature Mag. 26(5):300-301, 1 fig.
(Intrinsic evidence of authorship. )

(anon.). The mourning dove. Nature Mag. 26(5):304, 1 fig. (In-
trinsic evidence of authorship. )

The passenger pigeon in Ontario. [Review of Margaret H. Mitchell’s
report on this species (1935).] Nature Mag. 27(1):50.

With faint praise. [Review of Harry B. Hawes, Fish and game, now
or never (1935).] Nature Mag. 27(2):114.

Teton Valley history. [Review of B. W. Driggs, History of Teton
Valley, Idaho (1926).] Nature Mag. 27(4):255.

Fort Hall history. [Review of Jennie Broughton Brown, Fort Hall on
the Oregon Trail (1932).] Nature Mag. 27(4):255.

“Little waters: their relation to the land.” [Review of booklet with
this title, issued by Soil Conservation Service et al.] Nature Mag. 27
(5) :276.

Nature for young folks. [Review of Edward G. Huey, A child’s story
of the animal world.] Nature Mag. 27(5):309.

Mammal society meeting. Nature Mag. 28(1):47, 64, 1 fig.

Insect workmen. [Review of S. W. Frost, Ancient artizans (1936).]
Nature Mag. 28(1):61.

Apiatia. [A review.] Nature Mag. 28(1):63.

Dwindling fur animals. Nature Mag. 28(2):114.

Michigan waterfowl. [Review of M. D. Pirnie, Michigan waterfowl
management (1935).] Nature Mag. 28(3):179.

Oregon wild life. [Review of Vernon Bailey, The mammals and life
zones of Oregon (1936).] Nature Mag. 28(5):317.

Recent ornithological meetings. Nature Mag. 29(1):49.

Food of the red fox. [Review of Adolph Murie, Following fox trails
(19386).] Nature Mag. 29(1):68.

Alaska’s pioneer naturalist. [Review of Leonhard Stejneger, Georg
Wilhelm Steller (1936).] Nature Mag. 29(1):63-64.

William Temple Homaday. An appreciation. Nature Mag. 29(5):
303-304, 1 fig.

(anon.). Joe Knapp pays one dollar fine. Nature Mag. 29(6):362-
363, 1 fig. (Known to be by Preble. )

The mountain heronry. Nature Mag. 30(5):285-287, 1 fig. (Reprinted
in Richard W. Westwood (ed.), This is nature. Thirty years of the
best from Nature Magazine: 125-129. New York, 1959.)

Food of the coyote. [Review of Olaus J. Murie, Food habits of the
coyote in Jackson Hole, Wyoming (1935).] Nature Mag. 30(5):302.
The fur seals of the Pribilof Islands. National Nature News 2(1):1, 7,
2 fig. (Practically identical in title, but not in composition, with an
article of 1925).

The crow—pro and con. [Review of several publications on the crow.]
Nature Mag. 31(1):50.

On eastern ferns. [Review of Edgar T. Wherry, Guide to eastern ferns
(1937).] Nature Mag. 31(2):127.

An American hunter. [Review of book (1937) with this title by Archi-
bald Rutledge.] Nature Mag. 31(4):193.

(anon.). The seahorse—composite denizen of the deep. Nature Mag.
31(5):292, 1 fig.

Restless jungle. [Review of book (1936) with this title by Marie L.
Jobe Akeley.] Nature Mag. 31(7) :436.

Alaska’s history. [Review of Clarence L. Andrews, Story of Alaska
(1938).] Nature Mag. 81(7):487.

1938.
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New Jersey birds. [Review of Witmer Stone, Bird studies at old Cape
May (1987).] Nature Mag. 31(7):444.

Tree and shrub key. [Review of F. kK. Makins, The identification of
trees and shrubs (1936, 1937).] Nature Mag. 31(7):446.

Varied birds. [Review of Birds of the world, a Federal Writers Project. ]
Nature Mag. 31(9):517.

The Arctic caribou. National Nature News 3(2):11, illus.

Squirrel, mouse and company. [Review of Wilfred S. Bronson, The
chisel-tooth tribe (1939).] Nature Mag. 32(9):481.

Idaho mammals. [Review of William B. Davis, The recent mammals
of Idaho (1939).] Nature Mag. 32(9):481.

Will America save its waterfowl? In: Frances E. Clarke (compiler),
Great wings and small: bird stories of our day: 221-230. New York.
(Reprinted from Christian Science Monitor, 1935. )

Some interesting fur animals. Nature Mag. 33(10):577-580, 8 fig.

Help for plants. [Review of Cynthia Westcott, The plant doctor
(1940).] Nature Mag. 34(2):111.

[Review of] Paul Russell Cutright, The great naturalists explore South
America (1940). National Parks Bull. 15(69):20.

Pennsylvania birds. [Review of W. E. Clyde Todd, Birds of western
Pennsylvania (1940).] Nature Mag. 34(3):173.

Barred Owl on Athabaska River, Alberta. Auk 58(3):407-408.
Carolina Wren in central New Hampshire. Auk 58(3):409.

Wildlife conservation—1941 brand. Nature Mag. 34(7):391-395, 404,
406.

Oe endangered game birds. Nature Mag. 34(9):513-518, 523-524,
3 fig.

(anon.). Wildlife service threatened—an editorial. Nature Mag. 35
(2):78. (Intrinsic evidence of authorship. )

Vernon Bailey passes. Nature Mag. 35(6) :329.

The redwing. Nature Mag. 35(7):365, 2 fig.

Voices of spring. Nature Mag. 36(3):137-139, 7 fig.

The pasque flower. Nature Mag. 36(3):140-141, 7 fig.

Our waterfowl. [Review of Francis H. Kortright, The ducks, geese
and swans of North America (1942).] Nature Mag. 36(4):215.

Books on nature lore. [Review of H. P. K. Agersborg, Nature lore, or
listen to the voice of nature, 5 vols. (1942).] Nature Mag. 36(4):217.
The Bartrams down south. [Review of John Bartram, Diary of a
journey through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida, 1765-66 (1942).]
Nature Mag. 36(7 ):385-386.

North American wolves. [Review of Stanley P. Young and Edward
Sie ee The wolves of North America (1944).] Nature Mag.
37(7) :339.

Bartram’s Travels. [Review of William Bartram, Travels in Georgia
and Florida, 1773-74 (1943).] Nature Mag. 37(8):445.

North American marten. Nature Mag. 38(1) :32, 2 fig.

The American cougar. Nature Mag. 38(3):137, 1 fig.

Some grouse. Nature Mag. 38(5):253-254, 9 fig.

Why fishing in National Parks? National Parks Mag. 82:7-11, 1 fig.

About woodcock. [Review of H. M. Hall, Woodcock ways (1946).]
Nature Mag. 40(2):59.

Our mysterious cat. [Review of Stanley P. Young and Edward A.
Goldman, The puma (1946).] Nature Mag. 40(3):162.

Northern Canada and Alaska. [Review of Charles E. Gilliam, Raw
North (1947).] Nature Mag. 40(8):441.

1956.

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The puma in Vermejo Park. [Review of Elwood S. Barker, When the
dogs bark “treed” (1946).] Nature Mag. 40(8) :445.

The mourning dove. Nature Mag. 40(9):479-480, 4 fig.

The Ossipee Wildlife Sanctuary. Living Wilderness 13(25):1-5, 1 map.
Guarding wildlife. [Review of Rachel L. Carson, Guarding our wild-
life resources (1948).] Nature Mag. 42(4):191.

New bird book. [Review of Herbert S. Zim and Ira N. Gabrielson,
Birds, a guide to the most familiar American birds (1949).] Nature
Mag. 42(7):301.

Bird songs and sounds. [Review of Alexander V. Arlton, Songs and
other sounds of birds (1949).] Nature Mag. 43(8):395.

Water.and man. [Review of Jonathan Froman and Ollie E. Fink, Water
and man; a study in ecology (1950).] Nature Mag. 43(10):509.

[Review of] Olaus J. Murie, A field guide to animal tracks (1954).
Living Wilderness 56: 14-17.

Transmitted May 25, 1965.

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