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NEsTs AND 13ch HF AUSTRALIAN Bums. Including the Geographical Distribution of the Species and Popular Observations

Tltereon. By ARClllBALD JAMES CAMP< BELL. Melbourne. With map. 28 colored plates and 131 photographic

illustrations. Printed for the author by

Pawson is: Brailstortl. Shellieltt. England.

rgoo. Eve, 2 parts, xl v no: pages.

In these two handsome Mr. Campbell presents tlte results of ltis long- cuntiuusd study of Australian birds, to- gether with what has been learned by others of their nesting habits, the whole forming a thoroughly up-tuedate treatise on the subject. of the some 765 species of Atls~ tralian birds tlte eg, soi ‘considerably over 609 are known,‘ a»- cumpared with the 4|; which had been discovered at the time Mr. Campbell published his ‘Manual of tlte Nests and Eggs of Australian Birtls‘ in t883. an indication of the activity of Aus- tralian ﬁeld ornithologists in the past twenty years.

Several pages are often devoted to asingle species and the value of the text is greatly enhanced by the addition of twenty-seven admirahly colored plates ﬁguring the eggs of over two hundred species. and particur larly by the presence of the one hundred and thirty-one photographs from nature, chieﬂy by the author, Dr Le Souéf. and S. W. Jackson, illustrating the nests and eggs of nearly as many species.

Experience alone tits one to realize the labor involved in the preparation of a work

volumes

of this kind. where the material is largely to he gathered from nature Uilen under Circum— stances entailing much hardship and expos- ure of life and limb, and we can imagine the well—deserved satisfaction with which Mr. Campbell linally views the results or his many years of conscientious work in their present attractive formga monument to his patience, perseverance, and enthu- siasm.

Lack of space prohibits our going into detail. but readers of BIRD-LURE will recall

Mr. Campbell's interesting article on the

arm iRem’emo

‘Botvcr-birtls.‘ and in a future number we shall print an illustrated paper by him on the ‘MountLbuilding Birtla.‘—Fi M. C.

NES'I‘LIN‘S or Foxcsr AND MARSH. By lame SKUSVENOR WHEELOCK. With Twelve Full-page Photogravltres and

Many Illustrations in the Text from Orig-

inal Photographs tram Nature by Harry

B. Wheelock. Chicago: A. C. McClurg

8: C. rgoz. tamo. 257 pages, t2

gelatine full-page prints. 57 half-tones in

the text.

The author of this book is evidently a keen observer and tireless student of birds in nature. If her sympathy with them leads her to over-humanize her subjects. we may pardon this failing for her many interesting and novel observations which she records with due detail.

Her studies have been made in the vicin< itv of Chicago, and she has evidently had unusually good opportunities to observe cer~ tain species—opportunities of which she has availed herself so cliectively that her book t‘ontains much that is novel, and it is distinctly an important contribution to the literature 0‘ ﬁeld Drnilhologyt

'I‘he photographic illustrations serve well to illustrate the text and also the difﬁculties of this side of bird study. The text cuts would appear to better advantage it they had been printed on coated paper.AF. M. C.

Attoxc THE WATER-FOWL. Observation. Adventure. Photography. A Popular Narrative Account of the Water—fowl as Found in the Northern and Middle States arid Lower Canada, East of the Rocky Mountains. By HERBERT K. Jon. Pro- insely illustrated by photographs from nature. mostly by the autltor. New York: Doubleday" Page 8: Co. 1902. Sq. 3V0, xxi v 224 pages, 97 halt-tones.

The admirable series of articles by Mr. job. published in ‘Everybody’s Magazine’ during the past spring. is here attractively presented in book form.

Although these essays practically intro- duce Mrr job to the public as a student of birds with 3 cameras he has had a wide

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