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The Birds of British Guiana. Based on 

 the Collections of Frederick Vavasour 

 McConnell. By Charles Chubb. With a 

 Preface by Mrs. F. V. McConnell. London. 

 Bernard Quaritch. 8vo. Vol. I, 1916, 

 liii-r-528 pages; Vol. II, 1021, lxxviii + 

 615 pages. Folding map, 20 colored plates, 

 numerous half-tones and line-cuts. 



We are often asked for a textbook on the 

 birds of tropical America and heretofore 

 have been unable to refer the inquirer to any 

 one work which would serve the purposes of 

 identification as well as give some general 

 account of habits. With the completion of 

 Mr. Chubb's report on the McConnell col- 

 lection there is at last available a book in 

 English treating of a large proportion of the 

 birds of northern South America, with de- 

 scriptions of every species and plates or line 

 cuts of many of them. 



The edition of this valuable book is 

 limited to 250 copies, a fact which not only 

 increases its price (which we think is two 

 pounds per volume) but, unfortunately, re- 

 stricts the size of the audience it seems so 

 well designed to serve. 



Mr. McConnell did not live to complete 

 the work he began so well, and his widow has 

 not only secured the services of Mr. Chubb in 

 producing these two fine memorial volumes, 

 but has defrayed the cost of their publication 

 and, finally, presented the collection on which 

 they are based to the British Museum, thus 

 reaping to the utmost the fruits of Mr. 

 McConnell's labors.— F. M. C. 



The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals. 

 By William T. Hofnaday. nmo. 328 

 pages, numerous half-tones. 



Mr. Hornaday's many years' service as 

 director of the New York Zoological Park 

 has given him exceptional opportunities to 

 become intimately acquainted with many of 

 the animals under his charge. Unfortunately, 

 he devotes only one chapter of his book to 

 birds, and that is based largely on the ob- 

 servations of others, but the student of 

 mammals will find here a wealth of intensely 

 interesting information. 



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Convinced of our kinship with the forms 

 of life below us in the evolutionary scale, 

 Mr. Hornaday writes with both insight and 

 sympathy, and his book may be commended 

 to the materialist on one side and the ultra- 

 humanitarian on the other as a sane con- 

 ception of our position in the world of 

 animals. — F. M. C. 



What Birds Have Done with Me. By 

 Victor Kutchin, M. D., a Bird-Lover. 

 Boston. Richard G. Badger. 12 mo. 

 274 pages. 



Dr. Kutchin may well sign himself a bird- 

 lover, for every page of his book expresses the 

 warmth of his feeling for feathered folk. 

 Nowhere have we read a more eloquent and 

 genuine tribute to the part birds may play 

 in our lives, and we commend this volume to 

 everyone who wishes to realize the value of 

 birds to man and to establish intimate per- 

 sonal relations with them. — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



The Auk. — In the death of Charles B. 

 Cory, America has lost a man of large caliber 

 who left an indelible mark on the history of 

 Ornithology. Throughout early and middle 

 life he used his considerable independent 

 means in development and employment of 

 unusual and varied talents for many fields, 

 from music and golf to the study of birds. 

 After the loss of his fortune, some fifteen 

 years ago, and until his death, he held the 

 post of Curator of Zoology in the Chicago 

 Museum. "It has been said that ornithology 

 to him was a game — the greatest and best 

 game he played. If so, he played it like other 

 games, to win, and none knew better than he 

 that winners never quit." In the April Auk 

 Osgood's resume (with half-tone portrait) 

 of Cory's life has much biographical and 

 historical interest. In this issue also, Preble 

 sketches the career of Roderick Ross Mac- 

 Farlane (half-tone portrait). MacFarlane 

 was an intrepid fur-trader in the service of 

 the Hudson's Bay Company, to whom we owe 



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