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the bird is protected from April or Maj till October. For the Wood Duck 

 there is a close season of greater or less length in Canada, in all of the 

 Northern States except Kansas, in all of the Pacific States, but in only 

 five of the thirteen Southern States. In a number of the Northern States 

 and in several of the Provinces of Canada, the Wood Duck is protected 

 from spring shooting. "If spring shooting," says Dr. Fisher, "be abol- 

 ished the Wood Duck will gradually return to its old haunts and by 

 degrees reestablish itself— to the joy and satisfaction of all lovers of 

 nature."— J. A. A. 



Job's 'Among the Water-Fowl.' —The title 1 of this interesting work 

 very fully indicates its general character, that of a 'popular narrative' 

 from personal study of the birds in their haunts, with photographs of the 

 birds and their nests from nature, obtained often at the expense of con- 

 siderable hardship and risk. The matter is arranged under five subhead- 

 ings, as follows : ' Part I. The Submerged Tenth : Grebes and Loons.' 

 'Part II. Modern Cliff-Dwellers : Gannets, Guillemots, Auks, Puflins, 

 Kittiwakes, etc' ' Part III. Ocean Wanderers : Shearwaters, Jaegers 

 or Skuas, Petrels, Phalaropes.' ' Part IV. The White-winged Fleet : 

 Gulls and Terns.' ' Part Y. Wild Fowl of Wild Fowl : Ducks and 



Geese.' 



As is well known to a wide circle of ornithologists, Mr. Job is indefat- 

 igable in his pursuit of the wild fowl, and patient almost beyond measure 

 in his work with the camera under varied and trying conditions, and his 

 liberal mead of success, both as an observer and in bird photography has 

 been well earned. His field of work includes the lakes and marshes of 

 North Dakota, the islands of the St. Lawrence, and the off-shore waters 

 of the Atlantic coast, from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, besides the 

 ordinary fields and inland waters of the northeastern States and south- 

 eastern Canada. He here lays before the reader in the form of a simple 

 narrative the results of his years of exploration and experience with the 

 varied tribe of wild water fowl, from Grebes to Ducks, Geese and Phala- 

 ropes. Aside from its interest to the bird-lover, his 'Among the Water- 

 Fowl ' is an important contribution to the life-histories of many species 

 none too well-known, and the most difficult to investigate, owing to the 

 inaccessibility of their haunts, and the special preparation and long jour- 

 nevs necessary to reach them and successfully cultivate their acquaintance. 



1 Among the Water-Fowl: Observations, Adventure, Photography. A 

 popular Narrative Account of the Water-Fowl as found in the Northern and 

 Middle States and Lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains. By Herbert 

 K. Job. Profusely illustrated by photographs from Nature, mostly by the 

 Author. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co. 1902. Square 8vo, pp. xxi -f 

 224, with numerous half-tone cuts and plates. Price, $1.35 net. 



