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the advocate of any new one. It is entertaining and refreshing, a 

 book for the camp and the fireside, and undoubtedly one of those 

 to remain in the field. The editor has made not ornithologists 

 alone, but a much wider circle of people, his debtor. 



Comparative IvEGisi^ation for the Protection of Bird,s, 

 BY H01.TE Macpherson. — The Gold Medal Essay of the Royal 

 vSociety, for the protection of birds. I^andon ; 23 Queen Anne's 

 Gate, Westminster; price, i shilling net ; postage, twopence extra. 



A pamphlet of fifty pages, with sixteen pages from the essay 

 by L,t. -Colonel Momber, presents a comparative summary of the 

 protective measures of European countries and of the United States, 

 necessarily in a very condensed form. The importance of the paper 

 is best presented in the author's introductory chapter, in the foll6w- 

 ing passage: "At present the best that can be done is to observe 

 and collect facts, and to watch the character and effect of the legis- 

 lation for the protection of birds in other lands in the hope of being 

 able to build a surer foundation for future legislation in our own 

 country." 



Directory of Officials and Organizations Concerned 

 WITH THE Protection of Game, 1910. — Circular No. 74, U. S. 

 Biological Survey. 



Open Seasons for Game in the United States and 

 Canada for igio. — Poster No. 21, U. S. Biological Survey. 



Open Seasons for Game, District of Columbia, Mary- 

 land and Virginia, 1910. — Poster No. 22, U. S. Biological 

 Survey. 



Game Laws for 1910. — Farmers' Bulletin No. 418, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Ontario Natural Science Bulletin, No. 6, 1910. 



Condor, July-August, 1910. Vol. XTI, No. 4. 



Guide to Nature, July, 1910, Vol. Ill, No. 3. 



