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persons living on the island, besides forming a valuable contribution to 

 ornithology. — J- A. A. 



Mrs. Miller's 'The Second Book of Birds'. i — Mrs. Miller's 'Second 

 Book of Birds' '^treats briefly of twenty-eight families of the land birds of 

 North America, beginning with the Thrushes and ending with the Vul- 

 tures. Generally several typical members of each family are treated at 

 greater or less length, their leading traits being sketched in simple 

 language, without technicalities, the accounts being pleasantly enlivened 

 with anecdotes of particular birds, or pairs of birds, that have come under 

 the writer's personal observation, or derived from authentic sources. 

 The book is thus well adapted to interest beginners in the study of orni- 

 thology, and especially to help the younger aspirants to secure some knowl- 

 edge of birds and bird ways. Its influence will be eminently healthful 

 in stimulating interest in the living bird and its welfare. 



In an appendix of eight pages the characters by which the families may 

 be distinguished are briefly given, including a few remarks on their food 

 and habits. The twenty-four full-page plates, eight of which are colored, 

 after designs by Mr. Fuertes, give full-length portraits of some represent- 

 ative species of nearly all of the families treated. Altogether the book 

 is well designed to fill its intended r61e. — J. A. A. 



Lord's Birds of Oregon and Washington.^ — Mr. Lord's little book on 

 the birds of Oregon and Washington is a ' first book ' in a double sense, 

 it being the first formal treatise on the birds of these two States, and also 

 a ' first book ' in the sense that it is especially intended for beginners. It 

 treats of about one hundred and fifty species, mostly the commoner land 

 birds, excluding, however, the game birds. "The book is also limited," 

 says the author, " in that it seeks mainly to help one to become acquainted 

 with the birds by sight and song, leaving, for the most part, a treatment 

 of the habits of birds, their nesting, etc., for later study." The book was 

 prompted by the difficulties the author himself experienced in trying to 



• The Second Book | of Birds | Bird Families | By Olive Thome Miller | 

 With eight colored plates from designs | by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, | and six- | 

 teen other full-page | illustrations | [Vignette] Boston and New York | 

 Houghton, Mifllin and Company | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | 1901.— 

 Sq. i2mo. pp. viii-|-2io, pll. 24. Price $1.00. 



* For a notice of the ' First Book ' see Auk XVI, 1899, p. 368. 



3 A First Book upon the Birds of Oregon and Washington. A Pocket Guide 

 and Pupil's Assistant in a study of the more common Land Birds and a few of 

 the Shore and Water Birds of these States. By William Rogers Lord. Revised 

 and enlarged edition, 1902. WiUiam Rogers Lord, Office of the J. K. Gill 

 Company, Portland, Oregon. — i6mo, pp. 1-304 -j-i-iv, with 20 full-page half- 

 tone plates. Price 75 cents. 



