Recently published Ornithological Works. 507 



79. 'Bird-Lore.' 



[Bird-Lore. Edited by Frank M. Chapman. The Macmillan Co., 

 Ilarrisburg, New York, and London.] 



We have before us the third volume of this American 

 bi-monthly ornithological magazine for 1901, and the 

 numbers up to May of the present year. Primarily ' Bird- 

 Lore/ which appears to be the organ o£ the Audubon Society, 

 appeals to American readers; but there is a great deal of 

 matter which should interest a wider circle, and many of 

 the numerous illustrations are of great beauty. We may 

 instance those to the chapter by Mr, F. M. Chapman on a 

 breeding-place of the Brown Pelican in Florida; Mr. F. A. 

 Lucas's Walrus Island, in Bering Sea, with its denizens, the 

 Guillemots, Gulls, and Cormorants ; the Editor and the 

 veteran Mr. Burroughs finding and photographing the nests 

 of Humming-birds; and Mr. H. W. Henshaw's first im- 

 pressions of Hawaiian birds. These are some of the more 

 important photogravures as regards size and the general 

 interest of the accompanying letterpress ; but the snap- 

 shots of smaller birds from life are very effective. The 

 tendency of the work is distinctly educational, and its aim 

 is to foster observation, especially by means of the camera, 

 instead of mere collecting. Mr. Chapman's exposition of 

 the working of the electric perch, by which the bird takes its 

 own portrait as soon as it alights, deserves attention, though 

 not unknown to a select few of our photographers on this 

 side. The annual subscription to this sympathetic work is 

 only a dollar. — H. S. 



80. Boutourline an the Game-Birds of the Russian EiaiAre. 



[Synoptical Tables of the Game-Birds of the Russian Empire. Yyy 

 S. Boutourline, Member of the Society of Naturalists, &c. Edited bv 

 N. Anufrief. Petersburg, 190L 4to. 12G pp.] 



For some notes on the contents of this Russian memoir 

 we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Delmar Morgan, who 

 informs us that the introductory remarks treat of the 

 pz'actical and scientific importance of Ornithologv, the 

 necessity for accurate classification, and the want of a 



