Vol. XXI 



1904 



T Recent Literature. ^97 



the bird in the bush," — that is, to assist the many who aspire to a knowl- 

 edge of the names of the wild birds they see about them, but who are 

 deprived of access to specimens. For this purpose tinted figures, giving 

 in color those markings which most quickly catch the eye, are given on 

 the margin of the pages opposite the descriptions, which latter are brief, 

 giving only the most prominent characteristics of the species and sub- 

 species, and (in smaller type) a concise statement of their ranges, without 

 biographical matter. A short introduction tells ' How to learn a Bird's 

 Name ' and ' How Birds are Named,' followed by a 'Synopsis of Orders 

 and Families of North American Birds ' (pp. 9-40), illustrated with figures 

 of bills, feet, heads, etc., mostly life-size. Then follows the 'Color 

 Key' to the species (pp. 41-255), with full length colored figures in the 

 text. The orders are arranged in the sequence of the A. O. U. Check- 

 List, but the species within the orders have been grouped according 

 to their color markings, for convenience of illustration. Each species, 

 however, is designated by the A. O. U. number, and at the close of the 

 ' Key ' is a ' Systematic Table' (pp. 257-289), giving the classification and 

 nomenclature of the A. O. U. Check-List, including both the common and 

 the scientific names. The drawings are in every way creditable, but the 

 coloring is not put forth as giving "perfect I'eproductions of every shade 

 and tint of the plumage of the species, but aims to present a bird's charac- 

 teristic colors as they appear when seen at a distance." The author and 

 the artist are both to be congratulated on the very satisfactory manner in 

 which they have performed their respective tasks, whereby the student of 

 ' birds in the bush' has been presented with seemingly as efficient an aid 

 as can readily be conceived. The paper and presswork, however, are not 

 satisfactory, and it is hoped will be materially improved in the later 

 editions, for which there will most surely be demand. — J. A. A. 



Dawson's 'The Birds of Ohio.' — The title-page^ of this excellent work 



Natural History | Author of "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North Amer- 

 ica," I "Bird-Life," Etc. | With Upward of 800 Drawings | by | Chester A. 

 Reed, B. S. | New York | Doubleday, Page & Company | 1903. — 8vo, pp. 

 vi-j-3i2, colored frontispiece, and about 800 text cuts, the greater part 

 colored. 



1 The Birds of Ohio | a complete, scientific and | popular Description of the 

 320 Species of Birds | found in the State | By | William Leon Dawson, A. M., 

 B. D. I With Introduction and Analytical Keys | by | Lynds Jones, M. Sc. | 

 Instructor in Zoology in Oberlin College. | Illustrated by 80 plates in color- 

 photography, and more than 200 | original half-tones, showing the favorite 

 haunts of the | birds, flocking, feeding, nesting, etc., from photo- | graphs 

 taken by the author and others. | Sold only by subscription | Columbus | The 

 Wheaton Publishing Co. | 1903 | All rights reserved. — 4to, pp. i-xlvi-l-i-671, 

 80 three-color process plates and 200 -)- half-tone text cuts. Author's edition, 

 1000 numbered autograph copies, full morocco, full gilt. 



