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THE .Blans or Ottltt. A complete scientiﬁc and popular description at the 320 species of birds found in the state. by WILLIAM LEON Dawson, A.M., B.D. with intro- duction and Analytical Keys, by eros Jonas. M.Sc. Illustrated by llo plates in color-photography and more tllan 200 original hall»tones Sold only hy anh- scrl Columbus. The VVlleatotl Publlshtng Co. 190;. are. nlv-i-nyl pages.

This volume sholllll exert a marked and far-reaching inﬂuence, not only on the study of birds in Ohio. llllt on tlle general attitude of the people of the state toward its leath- cred inhabitants. The book‘s real worth will commend it to the student. its beauty will claim the admiration of the hihliophile, and its size alone will command tlle atten- tion of that not small portion of tile com- munity whose measllre of values is one of dimensions.

The present, however. is a case at quality as well as quantity. We are given keys to orders. families and species; detailed tle- scriptionsof plumage. with a special para. graph lor “Recognition Marks," descrip- tions also of nests anti eggs, and a statement at the "general" as well as 0 range of every species. Then follows biographical matter. with very frequently a photograph from nature of the bird or its nest. or its characteristic haunts. Lack of space for- bids detailed criticism, but we may say in brief that the authors have given us the most attractive and valuable work on the ornithology of a single state which has yet appeared—R M, c.

WITH THE BIRDS lN MAINE. By ULH'E Tumult: MILLER, Boston and New York: Hougllton, MitHin and Company. ton-lo. ix + 300 piges.

We are very glad to welcome this new volume of bird studies by Mrs, Miller. There are few writers who have succeeded so well in expressing the potentialities of bird companionship; who to clearly voice the pleasure: of making lriends with and of the birds.

alto {Kent'th

stunt- tiltt- spe~' *ol liirdt receive greater- or less attention in this hook. most of the studies being made in l\lnille.—F. M. C.

Plttlcllhltlttcstll Tlll. DELAHADU'. Ultxlrlltlttltilt'u (ILt'tl. \‘ll. 8V0. xx pages.

CASSXNMZ VALLEY “10;. The proceedings of this active organita~

tion always cuntain nlut-ll matter ol general

In the present num-

bet, for example. the papers lry Wilmer

Stone or "John Kirk Townsend," lty S. N.

Rhoatls on the disappearance of the pic.

cissel lront the Atlantic slope, by H. L.

Coggins on the travels antl night Ii es til

Crows in southeastern Pennsylllat a and

the adjoining portions at New jersey. and

by w. L. Baily on a night tlight ol birds at Mt. Pocono. are not only unusually readable but exceptionalth- valitahle. There are also contribution.» he Spencer Trotter.

"I‘he Red-headed Woodpecker as a Penn-

syll'ania and New Jersey Bird.‘ }. A. G.

Rehn. ‘Notcs on the Summer Birds oi Le-

high Gap, Pennsylvania.‘ and H. w, Fow-

ler, ‘Water Birds of the Middle Delaware

Valley.‘ Mr. Stone presentsa ‘ Report on tlle

spring Migration at igogx based on obser-

vation by numerous clllh nlelnhera and others living near Philadelphia. and there is an

‘ Abstract ‘ of the proceedings of the club (or

lgojt It appears that the average allentlr

ance of members lorthis period was twenty.

Is there any other local ornithological club

in the country with so good a record? [l

not, why notP7F. M. C.

ornitllologic interest.

Blltns 0F CALIt‘ttlts'lA: An introduction to more than three hundred common llirds of the state and adjacent islands. By [RENE GROSVENOR WHEELUCKt With ten full-page plates and seventy-eight tiran gs n the text by Bruce Hotsfall.

A. c. MeClnrg 5r Co. I904.

xxviii +573 pages.

This book is a noteworthy contribution to the literattlre of ornithological biography. The author states that " field notes begun ill [$94 . . . form the basis of the lollawing pages" and give a list of twenty localities

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