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with only the summer birds of the region, leaving unrecorded many of 

 the winter visitants, while " no attempt has been made to list the water 

 birds." 



The region here treated is faunally one of great interest, and the 

 information thus brought together adds greatly to our knowledge of the 

 vertical range of a large number of species in the Central Sierra region 

 of California. The paper also includes a large amount of new informa- 

 tion respecting the nesting habits of many previously little-known birds, 

 and contains also numerous photographic illustrations of their nests 

 and eggs. — J. A. A. 



Pearson's 'Stories of Bird Life.'^ — Professor Pearson's atti active little 

 book, while intended for general reading, "is especially designed for use in 

 schools as a supplementarv reader, beginning with the fourth grade." It 

 consists of twenty chapters or 'stories', written in a popular vein and 

 appropriately illustrated, with two appendices, the first giving descriptions 

 of the 27 birds mentioned more or less prominently in the 'stories', and 

 the second containing 'Suggestions for Bird Study', but there is no index 

 nor list of illustrations. The following selection of titles indicates the 

 scope and general character of the stories : 'The Arredondo Sparrow 

 Hawk,' 'Our Chimney Dwellers,' 'The Childhood of Bib-Neck,' 'Robin 

 Redbreast,' 'An Old Barred Owl,' 'The Birds of Cobb's Island, Virginia,' 

 'A Pair of Eagles,' 'Bird Key,' The Mocking Bird,' 'A Bobwhite Family,' 

 'The city of the Longlegs,' 'A Qriartet of Woodland Drummers,' etc. The 

 author tells us : "These stories are not fanciful, but are true to bird life. 

 The Arredondo Sparrow Hawk, Ruffle-Breast and Socrates were particular 

 birds well known to others as to me. In the case of the Bob-Avhite 

 family, Bib-neck, the Plover, I have combined into the lives of a few birds 

 incidents I have known to occur to manj-. The accounts of visits to birds' 

 nests, bird colonies and the like are given as they occurred." 



Prof. Pearson is an earnest bird lover and a sympathetic and entertaining 

 writer, and his 'stories' tend not only to instruct, but to inspire an 

 intelligent appreciation of the economic value, as well as the aesthetic 

 interest, of birds to man. The book is attractively printed in large type, 

 and inerits a hearty welcome to the list of popular bird books. — J. A. A. 



Sharpe's 'Hand List of the Genera and Species of Birds.' Volume 

 III.^ — ^'olume III of this great work follows with commendable prompt- 



' Stories of Bird Life | By | J. Gilbert Pearson | Professor of Biology and 

 Geology in the State Normal and Industrial College, | Greensboro, North 

 Carolina | [Design] With Illustrations by and under the Supervision | of | John 

 L. Ridgway | — | Richmond | B. F. Johnson Publishing Company | 1901 — 

 i2mo, cloth, pp. 1-236, colored frontispiece, 7 half-tone plates, and numerous 

 illustrations. Price, 60 cents. 



-London, 1901, 8vo, pp. i-xii + 1-367. 



