1920 J Recent Literature. oil 



standard of treatment is fully up to the preceding parts and the descrip- 

 tion of the plumages of the warblers very full and detailed. We are 

 informed that the two remaining parts needed to complete Volume I 

 and the order Passeres, will be issued together on April 6. — W. S. 



A Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology. 1 — Part 2 of 

 this excellent bibliography, the initial number of which was noticed in 

 our last issue, was published early in January. It covers the county lists 

 and notes from Essex to Middlesex in alphabetical order. The quotation 

 from Gilbert White's Selborne which appears on the cover is appropriate 

 and could well be taken to heart by many bird students today who, while 

 lacking time and opportunity for broad scientific work, may produce 

 valuable results by specializing upon a limited locality. The lines referred 

 to are as follows: "Men that undertake only one district are much more 

 likely to advance natural knowledge than those that grasp at more than 

 they can possibly be acquainted with; every kingdom, every province, 

 should have its own monographer." This part is beautifully printed 

 like its predecessor and is a handsome publication. — W. S. 



Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon Societies. 



The fifteenth annual report of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies, 2 a pamphlet of over one hundred pages, demonstrates once more 

 the splendid work that this organization is accomplishing. We are be- 

 coming so accustomed to hearing of the work of the National Association 

 that we are likely to imagine that we have always had it with us and it 

 would be well if some of those who read the pages of this year's report 

 would turn to the reports of the A. O. U. Committee on bird protection 

 published in 'The Auk' twenty years and more ago, in order to better 

 realize present-day conditions. 



Among the leading topics in the report of the Secretary, Mr. T. Gilbert 

 Pearson, we may mention just a few: the seizure of $150,000 worth of 

 illegally imported plumes by the customs authorities at New York; the 

 raising of $13,000 toward the erection of a Roosevelt memorial bird 

 fountain and the ornithological education in the past nine years of no less 

 than one million children in the schools of the country. The appeal for 

 an endowment fund to further develop and maintain this work is certainly 

 warranted. 



The work of the wardens is also well worthy of careful consideration 

 and the reviewer, who enjoyed the privilege of visiting the Breton Island 



1 A Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology from the Earliest Times 

 to the End of 1918. By W. H. Mullens, H. Kirke Swann, and Rev. P. R. C. 

 Jourdain. Witherby & Co., 326 High Holborn, London, 1920. Part 2, Price 6 s. 

 net. 



2 Bird Lore XXI, No. 6, pp. 395-502. 



