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homes or Bull) LIFE BY T. GILBERT

PEARsox. \Vith illustrations by and

under the supervision st john L. Ridg-

way. Richmond, B. r. jollnson Pub-

lishing Company. )9or. lémo, 236

pages. numerous ills.

Professor Pearson has drawn on a liie- long ﬁeld of experience to furnish the ma- this volume which, therefore, unlike many additions to popular ornitho- logy, possesses much of interest and value, A close student and sympathetic recorder, he presents us with a series of studies of certain birds in the south which may be read with both pleasure and proﬁt by begin- ners as well as past-masters in the study of birds. It is. however, to the former that he especially addresses himself, and his exper- ience in teaching gives him a point of view which many popular nature writers lack. Having told his story he calls attention to the signiﬁcance of the facts observed in a series of wllat he has well named ‘thought questiom,’ which should lead the reader to make independent observations. The book is thus admirath adapted for schoolwork. and we wish for it the wide circulation it deserves—F. M. C.

terial for

A FIRST Boot; UPON THE BIRDS or OREr

CON AND \\'AsHlNCTON. By WILLIAM ROGERS Loan. 1902. j, K, Gill Com- pany, Portland, Oregon. r6mo, 30++

iv pages, numerous ills.

This is a revised, enlarged, and greatly improved edition of rhe first edition of this book which was issued in the summer of [90L Attracred by West Coast birds Mr. Lord found, on coming to this region,that there were no popular guides to a know— ledge of western birds and he has prepared this book to meet in part what is evidently a widely felt want.

The combined experience of a student and teacher of birds make the needs of both a practical matter, and Mr, Lord writes as one who addresses an audience with whose wants he is familiar. Thus there are chapters on ‘How to Know the Birds,’

‘How to Name the Birds,‘ ‘How to Do- mesticate and Tame Birds,’ and ‘A Course of Study upon Birds for Schools and Bird Students.’ The latter is here of espe» cial importance, since the book has been selected for supplementary reading in the public schools at Oregon.

The publication of the first edition of this work brought to its author much additional information " both for new knowledge and for correction," and the present edition may be accepted as accurate and authoritative. It should exert a very important influence on the study of the birds of Washington and Oregon—F. M. C.

\VILD BIRDS 1N CITY PARKS. BY HER- BERT EUGENE WALTER AND ALICE HALL WALTER. Revised Edition. Chicago. 1902. Iémo, 45 pages. For sale by F. C. Baker, Chicago. Academy of Sciences, Lincoln Park, Chicago. Students of the birdvlife of city parks,

which often offer unusual advantages for ob~

serving the migration, will be interested in this booklet which is based on a study of the spring migration of birds during the past six years in Lincoln Park, Chicago, and is designed especially for the use of bird stu- dents in that locallty. admirable ‘General Hints‘ on bird study, descriptions of too species of birds arranged in the order of their average first appear- ance, ‘A Table of Arrival,’ ‘a Table of

Occurrence,’ ‘a chart Showing the num-

ber of~ dilferent kinds of birds seen in

Lincoln Park during the height of migra-

tion,’ a ‘Supplementary List’ of birds

which may be reasonably looked for, and a

blank for recording observations. All this

is excellent, but we should imagine that the book would be more helpful to students of the birds of Lincoln Park if the space de- voted to descriptions of plumages had been given to fuller information concerning the manner of a bird’s occurrence, than can be presented in tables or by diagrams:— F. M. C.

It contains some

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