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Bird Notes and News 



Books Received 



It is impossible to give in a few lines any fair 

 estimate of the value of such a work as " The 

 Conservation of the Wild Life of Canada " 

 (New York : Chas. Scribner's Sons), which 

 forms the finest monument to its author, the 

 late Dr. C!. Gordon Hewitt, whose efforts to 

 preserve the natural life of the great Dominion 

 gave so tremendous an impetus to the move- 

 ment during the too brief years of his associa- 

 tion with the Canadian Government. Fully 

 alive to the opportunities and the dangers of 

 a new country, Dr. Hewitt was able to inspire 

 more animal-protection work than has probably 

 fallen to the lot of any man in a similar period 

 of time ; and what has been done will doubtless 

 serve as guide and beacon for the maintenance 

 and extension of his ideals. The story of 

 Canada's wild life and its protection must be 

 of deep interest to the old country as well as 

 the new, and further reference will be made to 

 it in these columns. Mrs. Hewitt contributes 

 a charming preface. 



" The Soul of an Animal " (London : George 

 Allen & Unwdn) is not perhaps the best of 

 titles for the appeal made by the writer of the 

 book, T. S. Hawkins, as it may suggest un- 

 profitable speculations concerning the future 

 state of beast and bird. Like Miss Benson's 

 fascinating " The Soul of a Cat," however, the 

 volume deals, though in a different way, with 

 the present life and mind and intelligence of 

 man's lesser brethren, to whom few now deny 

 some share in the mental and moral conscious- 

 ness formerly arrogated to man alone. The 

 considerable attention given to birds, and the 

 claims not unjustly made for them, will prove 

 both interesting and suggestive to bird-lovers. 



" Birds One should Know, Beneficial and 

 Mischievous," by Canon Theodore Wood 

 (London : Gay & Hancock, Ltd.), is especially 

 noteworthy for the admirable illustrations, in 

 both colours and black-and-white, supplied by 

 Mr. Roland Green, prepared at the Ruskin 

 Studio. The sketches in the text are as 

 delightful as they are accurate, and the whole 

 get-up of the volume is very attractive. Canon 

 Wood's name is a guarantee for the letterpress, 

 and if it may be wished that he had gone to 

 more recent authorities for the economic 

 position of species, no one, neither Bird- 

 Protector nor scientific investigator, will 

 quarrel with his general preface. 



"A TIRED TRAVELLER" 



(The Redwing). 



By W. H. HUDSON. 



Reprinted, by permission of Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons, 

 from "Adventures among Birds." 



With Coloured Illustration from the painting by 

 H. Gronvold, 



Price 3d. 



THE STORY OF BIRD PROTECTION IN 



BRITAIN. 



Price 6d. 



Send this to your Milliner. 



AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MILLINERY 

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Reprinted, with additions, from the "Millinery 

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BIRD-ALLY POSTCARDS 



QERIES ol 12, each with quotation as to 

 value of Birds in Agriculture, from 

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Twelve Cards, assorted, 6d. ; 3 packets, 1/3, 

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AN 



ABC OF COMMON BIRDS 



A pocket Guide to the commoner inland Birds of Britain 



With short and simple descriptions from which 

 they may be identified by the unlearned ; their 

 local names ; and brief notes on the food they 

 eat that may be regarded as " pro " or " con " 

 the interests of husbandman and gardener. 



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