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Green Heron than anything else I can liken it to, and would follow 

 with a savage snapping of the bill. The next morning I placed it 

 upon a branch outside, but it was some moments before it realized 

 that it was free and flew away. Chreswell J. Hunt. 



Philadelphia. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



American Birds ^ is a recent profusely illustrated book from photo- 

 graphs from life, with the accompanying text in the popular scien- 

 tific style, but making no pretensions to the scientific accuracy which 

 is characteristic of those who are engaged in scientific researches in 

 animal behavior. The book is rather another of the accurate popu- 

 lar books of the best class. The illustrations are for the most part 

 clear and selected with a view to their value in depicting the family 

 life of the birds studied. The general account of each group studied 

 is in large, clear type, and this is followed by a brief but comprehen- 

 sive description of plumage and range in smaller type. "In this 

 book no attempt has been made to include all the different bird fam- 

 ilies but a series of representative birds from the hummingbird to 



the eagle has been selected Many of these studies were made in 



the West, but in the list of birds treated an effort has been made to 

 get a selection that is national in scope." In this book no one can fail 

 to find entertainment of the most wholesome kind, and it should oc- 

 cupy a place beside books which contribute to the knowledge of the 

 life of our birds. ^' 



The Warblers of North America "- is one of the most important con- 

 tributions to ornithological literature of the year. It has been pre- 

 pared at great labor and expense to meet a growing demand for a 

 book to which the bird student may go with assurance of success in 

 properly determining which of the host of warblers he has seen. 

 That the book meets this demand is attested by the eagerness with 

 which its appearance was awaited and the promptness of its wide 



^American BirdslStudied and Photographed | from Life|by William 

 Lovell Finley, I illustrated from photographs by [Herman T. Bohlman| 

 and the author. | Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1907. $1.50, 



net. 



^The WarblerslofjNorth America.] by | Frank M. Chapman,|with the 

 cooperation of other ornithologists [with twenty-four full-page colored 

 plates, illustrating! every species, from drawings by Louis Agassiz 

 Fuertesland Bruce Horsfall, and half-tones | of nests and eggs.| New 

 York ID. Appleton & Company.] 1907. 8vo. Cloth. $3.00, net. 



