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BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF LAKE MAXINKUCKEE. IND., BY 

 EVERMAN AND CLARK* 



Residents of the middle west, particularly those of Indiana, will 

 find in this work a large fund of information on the fauna common 

 to the region. That portion of the two volumes devoted to a list 

 of the birds is relatively small, covering 100 of the 1170 pages and 

 recording 175 species. The list has been presented in annotated 

 form and no space has been consumed with descriptions, range, 

 etc., which in the present case seems commendable. A consider- 

 able lot of original information is contained in the notes and where 

 species aie rare the author has given definite dates and records in- 

 stead of indulging in generalities. This practice could well be fol- 

 lowed by other authors since the day is past when we are content 

 to take an author's statement, regarding an unusual species, that 

 " it is still to be found," without giving supporting data. The wa- 

 ter birds have been most partially noted, as might be expected, and 

 the author has shown particular interest in the nidification of the 

 summer residents. Professor Barton Warren Everman is the au- 

 thor of this section of the work. 



Other chapters deal more or less exhaustively with the mam- 

 mals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mollusks. crustaceans, insects, etc., 

 etc., and serve well to call our attention to the fact that there is 

 much of interest in nature aside from ornithology. The Indiana 

 Department of Conservation under the interested direction of Mr. 

 Richard Lieber is to be commended for its part in getting this 

 work " through the mill " and before the public. 



A. F. G. 



*Lake Maxinkuckee. a physical and biological survey. By 

 Barton Warren Everman and Howard Walton Clark. Pub. by 

 The Dept. of Conservation, State of Indiana, 1920. Vols. I and II, 

 660+512 pp., 91 illustrations. 



