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affinities with the Goatsuckers. Dr. Buri's paper is of interest from the 

 fact that it shows that the minute details of the anatomy of the Swifts and 

 Hummingbirds bear out the conclusions based on their grosser anatomy 

 and external characters. — F. A. L. 



Herrick's ' The Home Life of Wild Birds.' ' — Mr. Herrick has suc- 

 ceeded in adding one more to the many attractive books illustrated by 

 bird photography, and through the use of certain new methods, which he 

 duly describes, has succeeded in bringing together a very large number of 

 wonderfully striking and pleasing pictures of bird life. He describes at 

 some length his methods, which are original and novel, securing pictures 

 from life at such close range that the details are given with great distinct- 

 ness. The work embraces fourteen chapters, the headings of which very 

 clearly suggest the character and scope of the work. These chapter head- 

 ings are as follows : (i) ' A New Method of Bird Study and Photography '; 

 (2) ' Illustrations of the Method: The Cedar Bird, the Baltimore Oriole, 

 the Redwing Blackbird and the Kingbird ' ; (3) ' Tent and Camera: The 

 Tools of Bird-Photography' ; (4) The Robin at Arm's Length, A Study of 

 Individuality'; (5) 'The Cedar Bird'; (6) ' Red-eyed Vireos '; (7) 'The 

 Nest-hole of the Bluebird'; (8) 'Minute Observations on Catbirds'; (9) 

 'The Rearing of the Night Hawk'; (10) 'The Kingiishers and their King 

 Row'; (11) 'Care of Young and Nest'; (a) Brooding and P^eeding Young 

 (b) Cleaning the Nest'; (12) 'The Force of Habit'; (13) 'Fear in Birds 

 and Taming Wild Birds without a Cage.' In these chapters he takes the 

 reader into his confidence and reveals to him the secrets of his success. 

 Certain families of birds, as for example, of the Kingbird, Cedar Bird, 

 Red-winged Blackbird, etc., are vividly placed before the reader through- 

 out the nesting period, and the method of their daily life is recorded with 

 great detail, so that we have the life histories of a series of our common 

 birds illustrated from the time of hatching to the period when they are 

 able to shift for themselves. 



Mr. Herrick's 'The Home Life of Wild Birds' is a most valuable addi- 

 tion to the literature relating to bird photography and the habits of birds 

 during the interesting period of rearing the young. — J. A. A. 



Heck's ' Living Pictures of the Animal Kingdom.' ^ — As the explana- 

 tory title indicates, the subject of the present volume is not exclusively 



The Home Life | of Wild Birds | A New Method of | the Study and | 

 Photography of Birds | By | Francis Hobart Herrick | — | With 141 Original 

 Illustrations From Nature |By the Author | — ] G. P. Putman's Sons | The 

 Knickerbocker Press | New York and London | 1901 — 4to, pp. xix -\- 148. 

 Photogravure frontispiece and 140 half-lone text figures. 



^ Living Pictures of the Animal Kingdom from Instantaneous Photographs 

 taken of the most magnificent specimens in Zoological Gardens. Edited with 



