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NATURE AND THE CAMERA. By A. RAD- cu'rre DUGMORE, Illustrated by pho- tographs hy the author. New York.

Doubleday. Page & Co., tgoz.

Mr. Dugmore's well-known nature phor tographs are a sutﬁcient guarantee of his ﬁtness to prepare a manual nn methods in nature photography. and he has placed the lesson of his own experience clearly before his readers. There are chapters on the outﬁtI exposing, developing, etc., photo» graphing birds and their nests. animals. reptiles, insects, tish. trees, shrubs and ﬂowers, all so well illustrated as to show that the atrthor practices what he preaches. Particularly would we call attention to the photograph of the Woodcock racing page 22, which. made with an isochromatic plate and a ray ﬁlter, antl printed in sepia. is as beautiful and satisfactory a picture of this bird on its nest as we ever expect to see.

The photographs of reptiles. ﬁsh, etc, are equally good, and serve to conﬁrm our opinion that Mr. Dugmore is the leading nature photographer in this country. A slip on page 7 makes a decrease at one-half in the diameter of the diaphragm. talls tor only twice. instead of four times as long an exposure, and may lead the amateur into difﬁculty if it he not correctedt—F. M. C.

THE pavements-r m: Coma ru FINITIVE FEATHER. By R. M. Bull. Mus. Comp Zoo|.. xl. . pp.146>186.pll. reix. Oct., 1902. Ornithologists constantly deal with the

color of birds’ plumage. btrt the character

of the color, whether it he title to pigments. featherstructure or both, are matters to be determined by the histologist and physicist.

The ornithologist can describe results. but

a determination of the prot~esses which have

brought them to pass requires a special train~

ing and knowledge at technique. such as few ornithologists possess, It was therefore exceedingly fortunate that Dr. Strong’s in- terest in birds should have let! hiln to de- vote portions of two years, while working

in tlte Harvard Zoological Lahorato study of the colors of feathers. The result» of his labors form a contribution to science of the ﬁrst importance and are of especial interest to students of birds.

It is not possible at this time to present even an abstract of Dr. Strong‘s researches, but we may at least state that they not only

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revealed no evidence of repigmentation of a grown feather or ot a change in the t-olor of existing pigment, hrrt induced him to her lieve that changes of this character are not possibletil“. M. c.

FIELD NOTES «its SUME BAxAMA Htttus. Br- J. 1., BUNHO’lI-,. From the ‘Avictllttlral Magnine.‘ Vols. VIII and IX. Brigllr ton. England, 1903. Sun. Pages. 33; plates, 6.

'I‘he birds of the Bahamas. >0 far specimens are concerned, are well known; btrt few of the many naturalists who have

visited these islands have ltad Mr. Bonltote‘s opportunities to study Baharnan ltirtls in their haunts. His ' Field Notes,’ therefore, form an acceptable and important mn- tribtttion to otrr knowledge of Ballanran bird-life.

Six excellent photographs front nature of birds and birds‘ nests add not a little to the interest and value of this paper. the picture or the Noddy on its nest being an especially good hit at him photographyﬁr. M. (r.

A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRM’Hl on THE Eco- NOMIC RELATIONS or Noa-rn Attentux BIRDS. By CLARENCE M. WEED 'I‘eeh- nical Bulletin. No. 5. New Hampshire

College Agricultural Experiment Sta~ tion. Durham, N. H. 1902. Pages l39—179-

Protessor Weed has here hronght together a useful collection of titles of publications re- lating tlirectly or indirectly to the economic Be 1808. he has

relations of North American birds. ginning with diligently explored the literature or orni- thology, etrtomolog, and agriculture for subject; and many of

Wilson, in

titles bearng on h

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