Book News and Reviews 



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Coast Marshes of New Jersey,' by I. 

 Norris DeHaven; 'Cruising Through the 

 New Jersey Pine Barrens,' by J. Fletcher 

 Streets; 'Nesting of the Broad-winged 

 Hawk and Goshawk in Pennsylvania,' 

 by Robert P. Sharpies; 'Breeding Birds of 

 Passaic and Sussex Counties, N. J.,' by 

 William L. Baily; 'Report on Spring 

 Migration of 1909, by Witmer Stone, with 

 an abstract of the Proceedings of the 

 sixteen meetings held during the year, 

 at which the average attendance was 

 nineteen. — -F. M. C. 



Notes on New England Birds. By 

 Henry D. Thoreau. Arranged and 

 edited by Francis H. Allen. With pho- 

 tographs of Birds in Nature. Houghton, 

 Mifflin Co. 1910. i2mo., pages ix -|- 

 452, 14 half-tones, i map. Price, $1.75, 

 net. 



It was a capital idea of Mr. Allen's to 

 bring together the notes on birds scattered 

 through the fourteen volumes of Thoreau's 

 published 'Journal,' and he has carried 

 it out in admirable fashion, placing the 

 notes under the species to which they 

 belong, arranging these in the sequence of 

 the A. O. U. 'Check-List,' and adding 

 comment when desirable. There is, also, 

 an index to the bird matter in Thoreau's 

 previously published works, 'The Week,' 

 'Walden,' etc. For the first time, therefore, 

 Thoreau's actual contributions to orni- 

 thology are presented in a form which 

 not only renders reference easy but places 

 them within reach of many to whom the 

 'Journals' are not available. 



Mr. Allen's 'Preface' contains what 

 seems to us to be so just an estimate of 

 Thoreau as an ornithologist that we are 

 tempted to quote from it, and refrain only 

 because it should be read in its entirety. — 

 F. M. C. 



Wilderness Pets at Camp Buckshaw. 

 By Edward Breck. Houghton, Mifflin 

 & Co. 239 pages, 16 half-tones. Price, 

 $1.50, net. 



Young bears, moose, squirrels, Gulls, 

 Ravens and Loons, Uncle Ned Buck- 

 shaw and some boys and girls, are the 

 principal actors in these stories. The 



scene is laid out-of-doors, and the various 

 animals were given freedom, which made 

 them pets in the best sense of the word, 

 permitting the establishment of relations 

 which close captivity in cages forbids. 

 The various pets soon accepted the hospi- 

 tality of their human friends, and their 

 companionship evidently added not a little 

 to the pleasure and interest of life at Camp 

 Buckshaw; but the tragic ends which a 

 number of them encountered emphasizes 

 the responsibility one assumes in taking 

 an animal from the care of its parents and 

 from its own environment. — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



The Auk. — Among the pages of the 

 April 'Auk' is an obituary notice of Dr. 

 Richard Bowdler Sharpe, of the British 

 Museum, which marks the passing on 

 Christmas Day, 1909, of a great ornitholo- 

 gist and one of world-wide reputation. 

 His 'Catalogue of Birds of the British 

 Museum' supplemented by his 'Hand-List' 

 is the only complete list of the birds of the 

 world, and is bound to be the standard for 

 years to come wherever the English lan- 

 guage is spoken. No finer monument to 

 his memory can be imagined. Dr. Allen's 

 notice is accompanied by a portrait re- 

 produced from the magazine 'British 

 Birds.' There is also a belated obituary 

 and portrait of Dr. J. C. Merrill, U. S. A., 

 who died in 1902, written by Mr. Wm. 

 Brewster, and still another obituary and 

 portrait of Mr. Chas. Aldrich, written by 

 Mr. Ruthven Deane. 



An article deserving of special mention 

 is one by Mr. Leon J. Cole on 'The Tag- 

 ging of Wild Birds: Report of progress in 

 1909.' The fastening of metal bands to birds, 

 for the purpose of learning something of 

 their migratory movements, is not a new 

 idea, but Mr. Cole needs the cooperation 

 of all persons interested in birds if definite 

 results are to be obtained. He tells what 

 progress has been made in 'banding' birds 

 and describes the method. 'The Court- 

 ships of Golden-eye and Eider Ducks,' by 

 Dr. Charles W. Townsend, is a pleasing 

 contribution to the life histories of these 



