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second installment which is sufficiently varied to please all. 

 The Semi-palmated Plover, Great-horned Owl, American Eider 

 Duck, American Osprey and Ruby-throated Hummingbird, are 

 each alloted a full page illustration and two pages of text. 

 The plates are very artistic and the figures easily identified; 

 but the attempt to give the life history of any one species of 

 our birds in a page and a half of matter written in a popular 

 form, while praiseworthy, can scarcely fail of falling short of 

 the desired result. It is to be hoped that Mr. Reed will re- 

 ceive the support necessary to the continuance of a work so 

 expensive, as this must be, 



A Slimmer Reconnoissancc in the [Vest is an account of a 

 7000 mile journev taken last summer by a College Professor 

 and a Clergyman for the purpose of studying the avi'fauna of 

 various localities in the great West. As it is a W. O. C. pub- 

 lication, we shall not review it here; but cannot forbear pro- 

 nouncing it the most remarkable record of its kind ever made. 

 The Authors were the pioneer advocates of the value of "bird 

 horizons," ar,d are most expert at this work. We would advise 

 those who have not already secured this paper to send 20 cents 

 to Prof. Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio, and get a copy before the 

 edition is exhausted. [F. L. B.] 



Our Feathered Friends by Elizabeth Grinnell and Joseph 

 Grinnel, with hitroduction by William Palmer. Published by 

 D. C. Heath & Co. 



This little volume of 144 pages is written for children in a 

 language which can easily understand, it has grown of a deep 

 love for the birds and a keen desire to start the children on the 

 right path. The subject matter is largely drawn from the per- 

 sonal experiences of the authors in their efforts to make friends 

 among the birds, and is so full of life and color. The illustra- 

 tions in the text are mostly drawn for this book to tell some- 

 thing definite about the bird or birds figured. The three full 

 page photographs of the Hummingbird family cannot fail to 

 greatly interest all. If there is one thing of more interest than 

 another in this little book it is the story of the two robins taken 

 from the nest in New England and raised and kept in Pasadena. 



