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The second part practically ends here, though there is appended 

 over thirty-three pages of Addenda and Corrigenda. A list of the 

 principal localities in which the collections serving as a basis for 

 the work were made, a bibliography, a systematic index, an index 

 of orders, families, genera species and sub-species, including syno- 

 nyms, and an alphabetical list of the authors, naturalists, travelers, 

 collectors and others cited in the work. 



The author will be found to be walking in well-worn paths. 

 Thus the subject of the world's geographical distribution has been 

 treated in several monographic volumes. It is to be earnestly hoped 

 that Mr. Dabbene may not neglect his opportunity to devote the 

 same amount of space he has given the latter subject to that of mi- 

 gration, a field in which through original research he may illuminate 

 the annals of the general subject, through an extensive study of 

 the phenomena attendant upon the migrations in that section, and 

 their extent both in time and in space. The work must take its 

 place among the hand-books of the birds of the world, and undoubt- 

 edly will fill the place of an ornithological text-book, a department 

 of zoological literature by no means crowded. 



*Trafton's Methods of Attracting Birds. — This is a 

 handy little volume of one hundred and seventy-one pages contain- 

 ing thirty-nine illustrations, both photograph and sketches perti- 

 nent to the subject of the book. The chapters deal with: I. The 

 Need and Value of Attracting Birds; II. Nesting-Houses; III. 

 Attracting Winter Birds; IV. Drinking and Bathing Fountains; 

 V; Planting Trees, Shrubs, Vines; VI. Birds — Protection in Schools 

 VII. Bird-Photography, an Appendix telling whose publications 

 or information had been used. 



"The importance of attracting birds around our homes," says 

 Mr. Trafton, "was first impressed upon the author through his ex- 

 perience with children in connection with the work in nature study 



*Metliods of Attracting Birds, by Gilbert H. Trafton, Supervisor of Nature 

 Study, Passaic, N. J. (with illustrations). Published under the auspices of the 

 National Association of Audubon Society. Boston and New York, Hovighton 

 Mifflin Company, 1910. $1.25 net. 



