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 Book News and Reviews 37 and Eggs,' 'Young: How they are Fed and Protected,' ' Feathers and Flight,' and ' Calls and Song Notes,' may be read with profit by the ornithologists of every land. Mr. Cherry Kearton's pictures add to our appreciation of his skill and patience with the camera, and further illustrate the ad- vantages of photography over any other known method of portraying bird-life. It does not seem to us, however, that they have all been reproduced with full justice to the original, and we especially deplore the loss of accuracy in a bird's outline which often accompanies the etching or cutting out of the backgrounds. — F. M. C. Laws Regul.^ting the Transport.atiox AND Sale of Ga.me. By T. S. Palmer and H. W. Olds. Bulletin No. 14. Division of Biological Survey; U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1900. 8vo, pp. 89, 5 maps, 4 diagrams. Further evidence of the benefits to the cause of bird protection which have followed making the Biological Survey responsible for the enforcement of the provisions of tlu" Lacey bill, are shown in the publication of this pamphlet. It has been prepared with the especial object of informing shippers, transportation companies, and game dealers of the laws regulating the transportation and sale of game and, possessing the author! - tativeness of a government document, it is far more valualile for reference than an un- official publication. — F. M. C. The Ornithological Magazines The Alk. — ' The Auk ' enters the new century in much the same garb it has vorn during twenty-six years of the old, being modeled on the same lines that have jiroved so successful in the past. Nearly one c|uar- ter of the 131 pages of the January number are devoted to reports on bird protection by Mr. Witiner Stone and Mr. William Dutcher, and afford unusually instructive reading. Much good will result from in- telligent legislation, and Mr. Dutcher shows how effectively the persecuted (Julls and Terns have lieen protected the last summer on the Atlantic coast, from Maine to Vir- ginia, by securing the jiaid services of per- sons liing on or near their breeding grounds. The molts and plumages of these birds are explained by Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr. The opening pages are filled with obituary notices of Dr. Elliott Coues and Mr. George B. Sennett, from the pens of Mr. D. G. Elliot and Dr. J. A. Allen, respectively. One of the most remarkable things about Dr. Coues was the wide reach of his scientific knowledge, which made him in the truest sense of the word a great ornithologist. Some new birds from Panama are described by Mr, Ontram Bangs and others; from Mexico, by Mr. E. W. Nelson, in a couple of brief papers, and a local list, by Mr. James H. Flemming, on the birds of Parry Sound and Muskoka, Ontario, fills thirteen pages. In Mr. John H. Sage's report of the Eighteenth Congress of the A. O. IT., we learn officially of a radical change in membership that will take effect at the next Congress. The species "Associate Member" is to be split into two, but which is the subspecies I am still in doubt. Some one has facetiously dubbed one the "killers," and the other the "see-ers," and everybody ought now to be completely satisfied at this new experi- ment in trinomialism. Fhe reviews of new literature are extensive, especially one on Dwight 's molts of passerine species, and one on Grinnell's birds of Alaska. There Is also a goodly array of general notes, cov- ering captures and records too numerous to mention. — J. D., Jr. Book News We learn from Dana Estes & Co., pub- lishers of Coues' ' Key,' that the revised edition of this work, the manuscript of which Dr. Coues completed shortly before his death, will be ready sometime during the coming spring. It will be profusely Illus- trated, chiefly by Louis A. Fuertes, and will be Issued In two volumes, at the price of 5io. The report of the .. O. C bird prottr- tlon committee including Mr. Dunhers re- port on the expenditure of the Thayer futui, which occupies thirty-seven pages in the Januarv 'Auk,' has been Issued separately and mav lie procured from William Dutcher, 525 Manhattan Ave., New York citv. at five cents a copv, or four dolla^^ per humlred.