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restrictions and says that the complaint against the scientific man "is 

 usually the cry of some conservationist who wishes he were scientific but 

 is not." He adds "one of the strongest arguments in favor of preserving 

 birds, is that they have great economic value; the facts which support 

 this argument have been ascertained, not by the men who shout them 

 from the housetops but by quiet, modest ornithologists who sit in their 

 laboratories and whose names are seldom seen in the newspapers. Other 

 men 'on the firing line,' do wonderfully effective work but sometimes they 

 do not seem to realize that this work is made possible, not so much by the 

 noise of their own big guns, as by the ammunition supplied to them by 

 the scientific men who work without making any noise at all." 



All in all this book of Mr. Baynes' is just what hundreds of people are 

 looking for, in every part of the country, to help them in establishing closer 

 relations with their wild bird neighbors. The illustrations are very at- 

 tractive and the text well gotten up. — W. S. 



Job on Wild Fowl Propagation. 1 — Like Mr. Baynes, Mr. Job has 

 developed a branch of wild bird preservation which is peculiarly his own — 

 that of the propagation of wild species. The need of Quail and Ruffed 

 Grouse for stocking purposes has long been recognized and for some years 

 past their artificial propagation has been successfully carried on in various 

 places. In the case of wild ducks however the possibilities are only just 

 beginning to be appreciated and undoubtedly their is a great future for the 

 development of this work. In the two bulletins before us Mr. Job describes 

 his experience and that of others, presenting in detail such information on 

 the various phases of the problem as prospective breeders will require. 

 Speaking of the breeding of ducks he says "It is coming to be a source not 

 only of pleasure but of great practical good, to breed wild water-fowl by 

 such methods as I have described. Every state should propagate and 

 liberate wild ducks of such species as it is found are likely to breed in its 

 domain, since it is proved that young wild ducks are strongly inclined 

 to breed near where they were reared." The Wood Duck which a decade 

 ago was called a "vanishing game-bird" is now being reared by thousands 

 and the species is being reestablished and made abundant. Many owners 

 of large estates, we are told, are already interesting themselves in propa- 

 gating wild ducks on native swamp lands, and in this way it seems quite 

 possible to offset the reduction in the numbers of many species, caused 

 by the draining and cultivation of their former nesting grounds in the 

 Dakotas, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, etc. Mr. Job's timely 'bulletins' 

 will meet the needs of a constantly increasing number of wild-fowl breeders. 

 — W. S. 



1 Propagation of Upland Ganie-Birds. By Herbert K. Job. Bulletin No. 2, 

 Nat. Asso. Audubon Soc, 1974 Broadway, N. Y. City, April, 1915 Price 25 cents, 

 (pp. 33-72). 



Propagation of Wild Water-Fowl. By Herbert K. Job. Bulletin No. 3. Nat. 

 Asso. Audubon Soc, 1974 Broadway, N. Y. City, May, 1915. Price 25 cents. 

 (pp. 73-104). 



