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Bull): l.\‘ 'l'l-letlt RELATll) MA.\. A Manual of Et‘onomic Ornithology for the United States and Canada By CLAR- rh'cE M. VVEED and Nun Dunner Philadelphia and London. l, B pincott Company. [903. rzmo. v 380 pages, numerous illustrations.

The authors state that the need of this book "was hrsl author undertook to teach a college class

shown when the senior the subject nt granomit' ornitholugy. and its ﬁrst draft consisted of the lectures prepared When, later, the junior

author~a life-long strident of

fur that class, birds— became associated with him, a joint study of the whole subjet-t was undertaken, the results of which are here presented."

This work has evidently, therefore, been prepared from a practical. teachets‘ pointoi View, a tact which should add greatly to its value. In treating a subject into which statistics enter so largely and which, in its details, is lneking in popular intercsl, there was an excellent opportunity to produce a book which would be far from attractive.

The authors, however, appear to have avoided this tlitliculty, and to have made a readable volume. containing. at the same time. a vast amount of information, as is indicated by rhe following rnhleot Contents: Introduction, "The Relations of Birds to Man ': Chapter I. ‘ The Methods of Stlldve ing the Food of Birds '; Chapter II. "The Development of Economic Ornithology‘; Chapter III, "I‘he \‘egetable Food of Birds’; Chapter I\', ‘Thc Animal Food of Birds‘; Chapter \'. "I‘he Amount of Food Consumed by Birds‘; Chapter \‘I, ‘ Birds as Regulators of Outbreaks of In- Chapter \‘II, 'The Relations of Birds to Predaceous and Para- sitic Inset‘ts '; Chapters \‘lll n. xx. Sys- lumnlik‘ 'l‘reattnent til the Food of North American Birds by Families and Species; Chapters XXI und XXII. ‘ The Conserva- tion of Birds ': Chapter XXIII, 'Preventing the Deprctlatinns of Birds‘; Chapter XXIV. ' Encouraging the Presence of

jurinns Animals ';

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Birtls': Appendix I, ‘The Bird La“ of the American Ornithologists' Union pentlix II. ‘The Lacey Bird Law pentlix III. ‘ Some Fundamental Principles of Bird Lans‘; Appendix IV, ‘A Partial Bibliography ot the Economic Relatinns at North Amerit‘an Bird

It is evident from this headings that this information in regard to the general subject of economic ornithology than has before been brought into on: volume. a fart which should. and we trust will. t‘mtutlend it to

italitm ul chapter-

book contains more

every one interested in the more practical side of the F. M. C

hirtls' relations to man.—

PKOL‘EEIHNGS or run Naurusxn URM'I‘HOL- oolsrs' UNION AT ITS THlRD ANNUAL MEETING. Edited by ROBERT H. WOL- co‘l'T. Lincoln, Neb. 8m, :03 pageS, xvi plates, numerous text-cuts,

The third volume of these 'Proceedings' contains a report of the meeting of this ac- tive organization held at Lincoln. February r, tgoz, and the papers which were there presented, The oﬂicers elerted for the en- suing year were: President, l M. Bates; Vice-president, Mrs George H. Payne; corresponding secretary, J. c. Crawford, Jr.; recording secretary, Rt [-1. Wolcott; treasurer, Augest Eiche.

The papers here published include an admirable address by the retiring president, ProIessor E. H. Barbour. on ‘The Pro- genitora of Bird. ' with numerous illustra» tions; 'A Story that Ends Rightly,’ by Frank H. Shoemaker (illustrated); ‘ Water Birds,‘ by Elsie Pepoon: Woman‘s Standpoint,‘ by Nell Harrison; "I‘en Yeah Without a Unn.‘ by Wilson 'I‘out; ‘A Pair of Young Barred wls,‘ by Eli7abeth Van Fant (illttstratedl; ‘ Notes on the Distribution and Habits of the Blue Grosbeak in Nehraska,‘ by Myron H, Swenk; ‘ Some Birds Found Around Dull- bar During Winter Months.‘ by El H. Jones; ~0ur Winter Birds.' by Myron H.

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