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birds and changes in nomenclature which have been made since Dr. Coucs' death in I899.

It is unnecessary (or us to alter general comment on a work which we have before characterized as, beyond comparison. "the best known on general and systematic otnithology ever published.” and we have aimed here only to note the diﬂetences between the last and the preceding editions. —Ft M. C.

Bums or A MAIII'LANu FARM; A LOCAI. S'rum' or ECONOMIC ORNITHOLOGY. By SYLVESTER D. Juno. Ph.D. Bull. No. .7, Div. Biological Survey. U. s. Dep't of Agriculture. Washington. r902. no pages. l7 plates. +1 text-cuts.

Dr. Judd's study of the food of birds on

a farm of 230 acres. of which 150 were

under cultivation. extended over a period of

seven years and is of unusual value. not alone because of the results obtained. but also as an admirable object-lesson in the methods of investigation employed by the modern economic ornithologist. It has. too. much ecologic interest purely as a con- tribution to our knowledge of the economic relations of birds to a deﬁnite environment. It may well stand as a model for work of this kind. and an examination of it will sug- gest numerous lines of observation to stu» dents of the food of birds. Particularly, we would commend Dr. Judd‘s fairness of mind. He does not appear as a special pleader for this bird or that. but evidently presents his conclusions without attempting to defend one bird and condemn another. inﬂuenced by a preconceived fondness or

prejudice for the species in question.— F. M. Ct

Two LITTLE SAVAGEs: BEING THE ADVEN-

TURES or Two BOYS Wuo Liven As IND|ANS AND Wu. ' Tnzv LEARNED. With over 300 drawings. By Exxesr THOMPSON SETON. I993. Doubleday. Page 3: Co. New York t2mo. 552 pages.

This is not a ‘hirtl book.‘ although it has much in it about birds. but it teaches the lesson of IheheauIy of life out-ot-doors. of which the birds. after all. are only a part. even if a very important one; and it is. therefore. :I book which should be considered

by every one who would lead the world to that well of pure delight. of which the au- thor writes so brieﬂy but so eloquently in his two-line preface.

Into this attractive volume Mr. Seton has crowded the results of his years of experience in the woods. It is. we believe, no secret that the story is largely autobiographical. and in reading it one realizes how well its writer's training has ﬁtted him for the work he has made his own.-F. M. C.

CATALOGUE or CANADIAN Bluns. Part 11. Birds ot Prey. Woodpeckers. Flycatchets. Crows. Jays and Blackbirds. By JOHN MACDUN, M.A.. FIR.S.C. Geological Survey of Canada. Ottawa, r903. 8vo.

Pages i—iv+219—413. THE BIRDS or Onto. By LYNPS Jonas. M.Sc. (Oberlin College). Special Paper,

No. 6. Ohio State Academy at Science. 1903. Svot z4t pages, 1 map.

THE BIRDS or Wisconsm. By L. Kun- LlEN and N. HOLLISTER. Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. 5°C.. Vol. II [new series), Nos. I. 2 and 3. Published with the Co- operation of the Milwaukee Public Mu- seum. 1903. svo. r4; pages. 8 half» tone plates.

THE Bums or FERGUS Counn’. Monrnnn. By P. M. SlLLDVl‘AYt Bull. No. I. Fer— gtls County Free High School. Lewis- town. hdont. I903. Km. 77 pages. 17 halt-tone plates.

Here are four noteworthy contributions to the literature of fauna] ornithology. The scope of Mr. Macoun's work has been out- lined in our notice of Part I (Bum Loan. 11. :25). and it is necessary only to say here that the high standard of the ﬁrst vol~ time has been maintained This important publication will be concluded with Part ill. which is promised for the coming fall.

Professor Jones has been so long in close touch with the birds and bird students of Ohio. and is so directly responsible for much of the interest in ornitltology in that state. that assuredly noone is better ﬁtted than he to write on the status of Ohio birds. It is. consequently.‘almost needless to say that his fully annotated list is thoroughly satislac- tory and workmanlike. It enumerates 322 species and subspecies as " actually recorded in the state."