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educational work into the far off settlements of Alaska. The medium is an 

 attractive booklet, containing well prepared accounts of the bird-life of the 

 various portions of the territory compiled from the publications of Dall, 

 Nelson, Grinnell, Osgood, Bishop, Bent, and other explorers of the extreme 

 northwest; the 'Arctic Coastal District' being written by Mr. Nelson 

 himself. The illustrations consist of half-tones, and colored plates from the 

 series of ' Educational Leaflets ' published by the Association, each being 

 accompanied by its respective text. 



This little volume is to be freely distributed among the people of Alaska, 

 in the effort " to cultivate a better appreciation of the value to mankind 

 of our wild birds and animals." 



The book is admirably adapted to its purpose and should go far toward 

 preserving an interesting and valuable fauna. — W. S. 



Mrs. Bailey's ' Handbook of Birds of the Western United States.' 

 — Fourth Edition. 1 — The excellence of Mrs. Bailey's well known ' Hand- 

 book ' as well as the increased interest in ornithology through our western 

 states are attested by the issue of a fourth revised edition of the work. 

 While the main text is the same, important additional matter is contained 

 in the ' Addenda.' The changes made in the nomenclature of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union Check-List are summarized, and lists of species to be 

 added and eliminated are given, as well as a complete list of the birds of the 

 western United States with their ranges, as they appear in the third edition 

 of the Check-List. There is also an additional list of 'Books of Reference' 

 bringing the bibliography up to date. All of these improvements tend to 

 make this authoritative work still more indispensable to the student of 

 western bird life. — W. S. 



Mcllhenny's ' The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting.' 2 — This work 

 consists of two parts. Chapters III and IV treating respectively of ' The 

 Turkey Prehistoric ' and ' The Turkey Historic ' are by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt; 

 while the remainder, dealing with the hunting of this famous game bird and 

 its actions in its native haunts, is compiled by Mr. Mcllhenny, largely 

 from the manuscripts of the late Charles L. Jordan, a life long turkey- 

 hunter and manager of the Morris game preserve at Hammond, La. In 

 his introduction Mr. Mcllhenny says, " After Mr. Jordan's death .... 

 I secured his notes, manuscript, and photographic plates of the wild turkey, 



1 Handbook of Birds | of the | Western United States. 1 Including | the Great 

 Plains, Great Basin, Pacific Slope, and | Lower Rio Grande Valley. | By | Florence 

 Merriam Bailey. | With thirty-three full-page plates by | Louis AgasSjz Fuertes, 

 and over six | hundred cuts in the text. | Fourth Edition, Revised. | Boston and 

 New York. | Houghton, Mifflin Company. | Riverside Press, Cambridge. | 1914. 



12mo, pp. i-li+ 1-570. $3.50 net, postpaid $3.69. 



2 The Wild Turkey | and Its Hunting. | By | Edward A. Mcllhenny. | Illus- 

 trated from photographs. | 12mo, pp. i-viii+ 1-245, 20 plates. Doubleday, Page 

 & Co., Garden City, New York. $2.50 net. 



