4-0 JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Recent Publications. 



Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and 

 Game of the State of Maine for the Year 1910. 



A pamphlet of one hundred and two pages, dealing with every 

 aspect of the work of the commissioners, devotes nearly four pages 

 to the Hungarian Partridge, and a colored plate of the same bird, 

 showing four individuals. There is also a colored plate of the 

 Mallard, together with the account of the same bird, the latter bor- 

 rowed from Knight's "Birds of Maine". Nine pages are devoted to 

 decisions of the Attorney-General pertaining to inland fish and game 

 laws. Part of these decisions relate to birds. 



191 1. Heismann, Martin. How to Attract and Pro- 

 tect Wild Birds. Translated by Emma Buchheim, with an 

 introduction by Her Grace, the Duchess of Bedford. Second 

 edition, with many revisions and many illustrations. London, 

 Witherby and Co. 1 



This is a volume of one hundred pages octavo, profusely 

 illustrated by wood cuts, presenting what may be termed the 

 intensive methods of attracting wild birds at all seasons, employed 

 by Baron von Berlepsch, based upon a systematic study of the sub- 

 ject, conducted at his experimental station of about five thousand 

 acres, at Seebach, district of Langensalza in Thuringia, Prussia. 



The chapters and their sections discuss The Present Position in 

 Regard to Protection, Reasons for Protecting Birds, History of Bird 

 Protection, The Experimental Station at Seebach, The Creation 

 and Maintenance of Nesting Places, Feeding Birds in the Winter, 

 Suppression of their Enemies, The Necessity for Co-operation, and 

 Calendar for Attracting and Protecting Birds. 



Among other things, a good supply of water is mentioned as of 

 primary importance. The illustrations make plain what is said of 

 nesting places, and the numerous feeding devices. This forms an 

 excellent supplementary companion to Trafton's "Methods of Attract- 

 ing Birds". 2 



distributed by the National Association of Audubon Societies, New York. 

 2 This Journal, XII, p. 75. 



