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Just how many volumes this magnificent work is intended to make is 

 not stated, but the remaining parts, we are told, will probably be issued in 

 yearly volumes. We trust nothing will prevent its early completion as 

 planned. — J. A. A. 



'Audubon Bird Chart No. 2', and 'Common Birds, Second Series.' — 

 The prominence given by the press to the efforts of the Audubon Socie- 

 ties to discourage the use of birds for millinery purposes, has so largely 

 confined the knowledge of the public to this side of their work, that we 

 are glad to call attention to its educational influence, well illustrated 

 b}' the publication under the auspicies of the Massachusetts Audubon 

 Society of its 'Audubon Bird Chart No. 2,' and the accompanying letter- 

 press by Mr. Hoffmann, entitled ' Common Birds, Second Series.'^ Like 

 Bird Chart No. i,' which was issued in 1898, it contains life size figures 

 of twenty-six common birds, drawn in colors by Mr. Edward Knobe and 

 reproduced by the Prang Educational Company. While somewhat stiff" 

 in outline, the birds, in the main, are posed in characteristic attitudes, 

 and have been lithographed with such remarkable success that but 

 few plates published in this country approach them in accuracy of coloring. 

 The birds represented on the Chart are treated biographically by Mr. 

 Ralph Hoffmann in an accompanying pamphlet of twenty pages. The two 

 combined, therefore, furnish an effective means for becoming acquainted 

 with the appearance and habits of twenty-six species of birds, and they may 

 be heartily commended to students, and especially to teachers. — F. M. C. 



Transportation and Sale of Game. — As the ' Lacey Act,' approved 

 May 25, 1900, supplements the existing State laws for the protection of 

 birds and game, " by prohibiting the shipment from one State to another 

 of birds killed in violation of local laws, and by subjecting birds brought 

 into a State to the same restrictions as those prescribed for birds pro- 

 duced within the State," it becomes important to know the provisions of 

 all the local laws on the subject of game and bird protection, which vary 

 not only in different States, but often in different parts of the same State. 

 To render such knowledge generally accessible, a Report^ on the sub- 

 ject has been issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, forming 



1 Audubon Bird Chart No. 2. Prang Educational Co., Boston and New 

 York. Price, $1.30. 



Common Birds: Second Series. By Ralph Hoffmann. Massachusetts 

 Audubon Society, Boston, i2mo, pp. 20. 



■^Bulletin No. 14, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Biological 

 Survey. Laws Regulating the Transportation and Sale of Game. By T. S. 

 Palmer and H. W. Olds, Assistants, Biological Survey, Prepared under the 

 directions of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Chief of Biological Survey. Washington: 

 Government Printing office. 1900. — Svo, pp. 89, pll. i-ix (remaps and dia- 



