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 traits," Pearson's 'Stories from Bird-Life,' and a new cheap colored edition of 'Bird- Life.' l^nexampled activity has been shown by the Protection Committee of the A. O. U. and by the Audubon Societies in securing desirable legislation for the better protection of birds, new laws being passed, or old laws amended, in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Mr. Dutcher, in expending the Thayer Fund, has extended the field covered by wardens and it may be said with certainty that at no time since they were first subjected to the attack of millinery collectors, have the birds of our coast been so well protected. Four new Audubon Societies have been organized, bringing the total number up to twenty-five, and the influence of these societies is constantly increasing, as, through the use of circulating lectures, libraries and other means, they become important factors in educating the people to realize the beauty and value of bird-life. In the schools bird study continues to claim increasing attention and all along the line, therefore, where one be systematist, ecologist, economist, protectionist, or educa- tor, there is every reason to be more than sat- isfied with the year's progress and promise. Bird-Lore for 1902 The following outline of Bird-Lore's plans for the coming year is submitted as an evidence of our continued desire not only to interest and instruct students of birds, but to arouse in them a desire for original investigation by suggesting lines of work and by keeping them in touch with the re- sults of the work of others. In the death of Elliott Coues ornithology lost a leader whose place will never be filled but the story of whose achievements will ever prove a stimulus to all earnest work- ers. In the next number of Bird-Lore D. G. Elliot and Capt. C. A. Curtis, the first a life-long friend, the second a messmate of Dr. Coues at Fort Whipple, Arizona, his first post in the west, will write of tlieir recollections of Dr. Coues at the time when, as a young man of twenty-one, he entered the army, and their accounts will be accom- panied by a before unpublished photograph of Dr. Coues taken at this period and by extracts from the journal of his western trip. The general reader will also be interested in Richard Kearton's ' The English Spar- row in England,' F. A. Lucas' 'Weapons of Birds,' Fannie Hardy Eckstorm's ' In the Maine Woods,' and William Brewster's ' Bird Voices of New England Swamps and Marshes.' The last named paper will be of practi- cal value to field students, to whom Dr. J. Dwight's 'The Molt of Birds,' Ernest Seton-Thompson's 'The Art of Journal Keeping,' and a series of papers on the families of Passerine birds will appeal. Students will also be helped, it is hoped, by a series of papers on ' Bird Clubs in America,' telling of their organization and methods with the object of encouraging the formation of similar societies elsewhere. F. H. Allen will write of the Nuttall Club in the next issue of Bird-Lore, and his article will be followed by papers on the Delaware Valley Club by S. N. Rhoads, ' The Princeton Club,' by W. E. D. Scott, 'The Spencer F. Baird Club,' by Mrs. Julia Stockton Robins, and these by others to be announced later. The bird photographer will find that Francis H. Herrick's 'The Chebec's First Brood ' contains practical suggestions on the study of nest-life from a tent, while A. Rad- clyfiFe Dugmore will describe his method of becoming intimately acquainted with wild birds, and there will be some truly remark- able moonlight pictures of roosting Crows by C. D. Kellogg. In concluding this outline, we may add that Bird-Lore is offered at least ten times as much material as it can publish. Many desirable contributions are rejected solely for lack of space, and we sincerely hope that circumstances over which our subscribers have control will so adjust themselves that 1902 will witness a further increase in the magazine's size.