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CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN Bums, PART II.
Bums ot’ Pan, WOODPECKERS. FL\‘~ cATcHElts. CKOWS. ju‘s AND BLACK— elltns. By jot-m Macouu, Naturalist to
the Geological Survey of Canada, wa, tgo3.
Otta- 8vo. pages i‘iv+219—+I3a
It is with much pleasure tltat we receive the second part of tltis useful catalogue of birtls, the first part of which. issued in [900, was reviewed in BIRD-Lotte for August of that year.
The method adopted in the preceding volume is here continued and full treatment, with authorities for every statement, of tire distribution of each species, notes on its breeding habits antl a list of tire specimens representing it in the museum of the Geological survey at Canada.
The work contains not only reference to previously published material, but much new information obtained by Mr. Macoun and his assistants on the survey, and thus
includes a
becomes an authoritative as it is an invalu— able manual of Canadian ornithology.
We observe with satisfaction a note by Dr. Robert Bell, director of the survey, to the efiect that the third and concluding part
of this important work will appear this autumn.~Fi M. C.
CASSINIA. Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club tor r902.
This, the sixth report of the proceedings of the Dr V, 0. (2., and the second issued under the title ‘Cassinia,’ contains a bio- graphical sketch of Edward Harris, by George Spencer Morris, with a full-page portrait of this friend of Audubon’s; ‘Henslow': Bunting in New Jersey,’ by Samuel N. Rhoads; ‘ The Unusual Flight -of White Herons in tgoz.‘ by William B. Evans; ‘Notes on the Gettnantown Grackle Roost.‘ by Arthur Cope Emlen; “The Heart ot the New Jersey Pine Barrens.‘ by Herbert L. Coggins; - Report on the Spring Migration of tooz,‘ by Witmer Stone: ' Birds that Struck tlle City Hall Tower in r9oz'; ‘Abstract oi the Proceedings ot the D V, 0. Ct for 1902 '1 ‘ Bird Club Notes '; ‘ Llst of Officers and Members.’
OUR FeA'rHEKEu GAME, A HAx'onoote or THE NORTH AMERICAN G Me-Blltns. By D\\'lGHT W. HUNTINGTON. Charles Seribner‘s Sons. New York, tgog. tzmo. xii+396 pages, 8 full-page colored platesv 29 full-page half-tones,
This bnok is written largely from the standpoint of the sportsman who knows his birds chiefly during the shooting season, and as such it appeals m‘ost strongly to sportsmen. The author. however, appears to be well versed in the literature of his subject, and numerous references to the works of others add to the value of his book.
With the exception of several species which have been greatly in demand for millinery purposes, gattlerbirds have, tor obvious reasons. decreased more than any other American birds. Mr. Huntington pays especial attention to this phase ot his subject. records at ‘bag ttluzzle-Ioatl, with illuminating eumnrents on the comparative scarcity of game-birds turdny.
and presents many
' of game made ill the tlays of the
The hook is illustrated by eight colored plates from paintings by the author of “Characteristic Hunting Scenes‘ antl by
numerous photographs ot mounted birds.— F. M. c.
The Ornithological Magazines
’I‘tla Avie-Among the articles of gen- eral interest in the July ‘Auk’ we find ‘Notes on the Ornithological Observations ot Peter Kalm.‘ by Spencer Trotter. wllo pleasantly summarizes the botanist‘s brief remarks upon the birds seen during his travels in America, about 1750. A. lit Clark writes on the habits of Venezuelan birds, and witmer Stone takes up - * * " Winter Crow Life in the Delaware Valley.’ also find two annotated lists. one on the birds of Madison county, New York, by William R. Milxon, and one on those of interior British Colum- bia, by Allan Brooks, the latter writer illtls» [rating his paper with a colored plate of young Ducklings.
The general reader will
The specialist will en-
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