JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 67 



Recent Publications. 



191 1. Abbott, Clinton G. The Home Life of the 

 Osprey. Photographed and described by Clinton G. Abbott, B. A., 

 Associate of the American Ornithologists' Union, with some photo- 

 graphs by Howard H. Cleaves, Associate of the American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union. With thirty-two mounted plates. London : With- 

 erby & Co., 326 High Holborn, W. C. This work may be obtained 

 at Brentano's, 229 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Price, $2.00. 



This is a most interesting and carefully prepared presentation 

 of the author's studies of the breeding habits of this large semi-social 

 bird of prey, conducted under the most favorable conditions afforded 

 in North America if not in the world. The fifty-four quarto pages 

 of text present a full, though not exhaustive, biography of the 

 Ospreys from the time of reaching their breeding places, in New 

 Jersey and Long Island Sound, until the young leave the nest. 

 The work, as implied, deals with the biographical aspect of the 

 subject, almost entirely, and though the observations center about 

 Long Island Sound, New Jersey and North Carolina, the treatise 

 amply represents the habits of the species, through judicious com- 

 parisons of records drawn from the literature. 



The thirty-two mounted plates present forty-two excellent 

 photographs from life. 



The work is one that can hardly fail to please the bird lover, 

 and, sad to say, in a large part of New England, where the Osprey 

 has been extirpated, is calculated to give a knowledge to many 

 readers of the home life of one more of the many birds now known 

 only in passage. 



191 1. Buckland, James. Pros and Cons of the Plum- 

 age Bill. Printed by Edward Evans, Ltd., the Racquet Court 

 Press, London. S. E. [No date.] 



In this pamphlet of nineteen pages Mr. Buckland says : "The 

 most plausible argument that can be brought against legislating for 

 the prohibition of the import of the feathers of certain wild foreign 

 birds is that it would divert the traffic in ornamental plumage from 

 London to the Continent; deprive thousands of British workers of 

 their employment; and not save the life of a single bird. 



"My object in writing this pamphlet is to prove — as I believe I 

 shall be able to do— that the Plumage Bill, which is now in the 

 Commons, will not divert the traffic in feathers from London ; will 

 benefit materially, and not injure, the working classes; and, finally, 



