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author ha.s confu.sed the Northern Shrike with the smaller 

 summer form. The Northern being the winter bird and the 

 lyOggerhead (or Migrant?) the summer form. It is no less 

 unfortunate that he seems to favor the egg collecting mania 

 which attacks every bo}' ; better to discourage such practices. 

 But in his discussion of the Orioles the author has turned to 

 the other extreme by not a little overdrawing the picture for 

 the the average case when the male of a pair has been killed. 

 We turn eagerly to the ' ' Remedy for the Sparrow Plague ' ' 

 in the hope of at last solving the problem gf the Sparrow\ 

 The author is undoubtedly right in his statement that the only 

 sure remedy is to find some bird which will prey upon the 

 Sparrow, but the difficulty will be to find one that is sufficiently 

 numerous to make any impression. The author thinks that 

 the ' ' Great Northern Shrike ' ' is the bird. The first difficulty 

 with the selection of this bird is that he already has the name 

 of being an indiscriminate butcher. Education may eliminate 

 this difiiculty. The second and more serious difficulty is the 

 small numbers of the Shrikes as a group and the fact that they 

 do not, and probably can never be induced to build in cities 

 nor sufficienty near to them to be of any use there. But we 

 can encourage the increase of all small birds of prey and to cease 

 prosecute them in the hope that they will in time become bold 

 enough to prey upon the Sparrows wherever they may be 

 found. The pamphlet is neatly gotten up, printed on good 

 paper and the typography is almost faultless. A half tone of 

 the author as a frontispiece adds to the interest of the paper. 

 -I.. J. 



Chapman' s Bird Studies With a Camera/^ 



It is seldom that a book has been so opportunelj^ placed 

 before the public. The study of birds with a camera is the 

 youngest child of Ornithology, but already it gives abundant 

 promise of a development which can accomplish nothing less 

 than a complete revolution of a world-wild attitude toward the 

 birds. The author of this little book has spared neither time 



*Bird Studies | With a Camera | with introductory chapters | on the outfit and meth- 

 ods I of the bird photographer | By Frank M. Chapman | Assistant Curator of Vertebrate 

 Zoology in the American Museum of Natural History, and author of Handbook of the 

 Birds of Eastern North America, Bird-Life, etc. | with over one hundred photographs 

 from nature by the author. | New York. | D. Appleton and Company, | 1900. | Si. 75. 



