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Little Bird Blue. By William L. and 

 Irene Finley. With illustrations by 

 R. Bruce Horsfall and from photographs. 

 Boston and New York. Houghton, 

 Mifflin Company, 1915. 60 pages, 

 numerous half-tones. Price 75 cents. 



The authors of this little volume know 

 both birds and children, and they inter- 

 weave the strands of their story of bird- 

 life and child-life in a way which should 

 make a bird-lover of every child who reads 

 it. We know of no better 'first book of 

 birds.'— F. M. C. 



The Winter Bird-Life of Minnesota- 

 By Thomas S. Roberts, M.D., Orni- 

 thologist to the Department of Animal 

 Biology, University of Minnesota and 

 Associate Director of the Zoological 

 Division of the Geological and Natural 

 History Survey of Minnesota. Occa- 

 sional Papers of the Zoological Division 

 of the Geological and Natural History 

 Survey of Minnesota. No. i, Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., Feb. 1916. 4to, 20 pages, 

 colored frontispiece, 13 half-tones. 



This attractive-looking brochure is 

 both authoritative and popular. It is 

 therefore of equal value to the student who 

 desires only its contained information on 

 distribution for faunal purposes, as well as 

 to the local bird-lover who would know 

 when and where to look for birds during 

 the winter in Minnesota, and how to 

 identify those found. In addition to notes 

 on times of occurrence, relative numbers, 

 and field characters there is also more or 

 less information in regard to habits. 



Ninety-one species and subspecies arc 

 treated. Of these thirty-five are classed as 

 Permanent Residents, seventeen as Winter 

 Visitants, eleven as Half-Hardy Winter 

 Visitants, and twenty-seven as Accidental. 



The illustrations include a number of 

 reproductions of interesting photographs 

 from nature and a colored frontispiece of 

 the Evening Grosbeak. 



Publications of this kind are well 

 designed to promote interest in local 

 bird-study, and to bring their author in 

 touch with field-workers throughout the 



area covered. Indeed, Dr. Roberts states 

 that "one of the considerations in present- 

 ing this paper on our winter birds is the 

 hope that it will bring to the Natural His- 

 tory Survey much additional information 

 in regard to the bird-life of the State." 

 Dr. Roberts may be addressed at the 

 Zoological Museum, University of Min- 

 nesota, Minneapolis. — F. M. C. 



In a Cheshire Garden. By G. Eger- 

 ton-Warburton, Rector of Warburton. 

 Sherratt and Hughes, 34 Cross St., Man- 

 chester, England. i2mo, 117 pages, 7 

 half-tones. Price 65 cents. 



These chapters on the birds of an Eng- 

 lish garden are pleasantly reminiscent of 

 Gilbert White and Selborne. With our 

 growing interest in bird-gardening, they 

 should appeal to us as a record of the 

 relations established between human-life 

 and bird-life in a country where bird and 

 man were intimately associated when our 

 own land was still a primeval wilderness. — 

 F. M. C. 



Birds of Porto Rico. By Alex Wet- 

 more, Assistant Ornithologist, LTnited 

 States Department of Agriculture, Bul- 

 letin No. 325. Contributed from the 

 Bureau of Biological Survey, Wash- 

 ington, March 24, 1916. 8vo, 140 pages, 

 colored frontispiece, map, 7 half-tone 

 plates. For sale by Superintendent of 

 Documents, Washington, D. C. Price, 

 30 cents. 



In response to a request from the Com- 

 missioners of Agriculture of Porto Rico, 

 the Biological Survey sent Mr. Wetmore 

 to Porto Rico to study the economic rela- 

 tions of its birds. Mr. Wetmore began 

 his field-work on December 13, 1911, and 

 continued it until September 11, 19 12. 

 During this time he gathered much infor- 

 mation in regard to the bird-life of the 

 island and 2,200 birds' stomachs. The con- 

 tents of these stomachs having been 

 determined, he now presents the results of 

 his labors in field and laboratory in this 

 report. It contains introductory sections 



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