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These are illustrated by half-tone plates, some of them in colors. While 

 the technical names are in Latin and some of the data in English, the main 

 portion of the text is in Japanese which renders the publications difficult 

 to consult. The general typography and make-up leave little to be 

 desired. — W. S. 



The Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon So- 

 cieties. 1 — • When one looks over the bulky report of the Association for the 

 year 1914 and reads of receipts and expenditures totalling $90,000, and then 

 harks back some eighteen years, when two State societies and some scattered 

 individuals were struggling along, with scarcely any receipts but unlimited 

 opportunities for expenditures, it seems hard to realize the tremendous 

 breadth and power of the organization that has developed from the hard 

 work of these few pioneers. 



We cannot do justice to the report in the short space of a review and 

 recommend that all of our readers study it in detail. We shall merely call 

 attention to some of the more salient features. Among publications dis- 

 tributed during the year, are 2,358,000 educational leaflets, 2,078,000 col- 

 ored bird pictures and 1,619,000, outline drawings for coloring. 



On the protected gull colonies of Maine it is estimated that there were 

 in 1914, 59,420 adult Herring Gulls and in the Laughing Gull colonies in the 

 south 118,400 individuals, besides other species in proportionate numbers. 



The Junior Audubon Societies have a total enrollment to date of 115,039 

 members and subscriptions for the continuance of this work during the 

 year have been made — $5000 by Mrs. Russell Sage for the south and 

 $20,000 by an unnamed patron for work in the northern schools. 



A new department of " Applied Ornithology," has been started with Mr. 

 Herbert K. Job in charge, with the object of instructing the public in practi- 

 cal methods of attracting birds and in raising wild game birds. 



Trained field agents of the Association — Messrs. Arthur H. Norton, 

 Winthrop Packard, Katharine H. Stuart, Eugene Swope, and William L. 

 Finley present reports of great interest and the reports of secretaries of 

 twenty-five State societies close this most encouraging record of bird pro- 

 tection.— W. S. 



Recent Literature on Bird Protection.— Three publications of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture deserve notice in this connection. ' Bird 

 Houses and How to Build Them ' - by Ned Dearborn is a welcome pamphlet 

 giving just the information that hundreds of people are asking for in 

 connection with their efforts to attract birds to their grounds. The usual 

 publication ' Game Laws for 1914 ' 3 contains a convenient summary 

 of game legislation throughout the United States and Canada, revised 

 to date. A third Government publication is the ' Report of the Gover- 



1 Tenth Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon Societies, 

 Inc. Bird-Lore, Nov.-Dec, 1914, pp. 481-565. 



2 Farmers' Bulletin, No. 609, published September 11, 1914. 



3 Farmers' Bulletin, No. 628, published October 20, 1914. 



