482 Recent Literature. [july 



Carter's 'Shooting in Early Days.' — In a neatly printed little pamph- 

 let issued privately by Mr. Charles Morland Carter he describes his ex- 

 periences as a gunner beginning about the year 1864. His early reminis- 

 cences deal with New England and are full of association with William 

 Brewster and Ruthven Deane, two of his boyhood acquaintances. Later 

 come his experiences in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and other portions of 

 the middle West. 



Besides the interest that attaches to a personal narrative of this kind 

 there is much of value to the ornithologist in the accounts of the Quail 

 and Woodcock shooting of those times and the several mentions of Pass- 

 enger Pigeons, especially of a trap shooting contest at Concord Junction 

 in 1872, in which Deane and Brewster participated and in which the 

 birds were 200 Passenger Pigeons purchased for the occasion. 



If other sportsmen whose experiences date back to the sixties, would 

 follow Mr. Carter's example we should have preserved many valuable 

 records of the early abundance of game birds which otherwise will be lost 

 forever. — W. S. 



Recent Publications on Conservation and Education. — The April 

 1920, number of the 'Nature Study Review' 1 is a bird-study number con- 

 taining many short articles on various species. The most noteworthy 

 contribution is by Anna B. Comstock: 'Suggestions for a Graded Course 

 in Bird Study' which will be welcome to many teachers. The suggestion 

 is made of collecting one or more old nests and mounting them in card- 

 board boxes beside which may be mounted a standard outline drawing 

 of the species colored by the student. The use of colored drawings in- 

 stead of mounted birds or skins will soon become a necessity as the supply 

 of old birds in museums, etc., becomes exhausted. 



Mr. John H. Wallace's 'Alabama Bird-day Book' 2 is as usual an admir- 

 able assistant to teachers engaged in conducting Bird-Day exercises. 

 This year's issue contains a special article by E. H. Forbush on the migra- 

 tion of North American birds into the countries to the south of us and the 

 importance of securing co-operation there for their protection as has been 

 accomplished with Canada on the north. 



Miss Althea R. Sherman has an interesting 'Historical Sketch of the 

 Park Region about McGregor, Iowa, and Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin' 3 

 in 'Iowa Conservation' Vol. III. Nos. 1 and 2, in which she advocates 

 the establishment of a park or reservation on the Iowa side of the Missis- 

 sippi, opposite the one secured by Senator Robt. Glenn at the mouth of 

 the Wisconsin River. 



1 Shooting in the Early Days, from 1863 to 1919. By Charles Morland Carter, 

 St. Joseph, Missouri. December, 1919. Printed for Private Distribution. 

 Grogg Printing Co., pp. 1-38. 



1 Nature Study Review. Ithaca, N. Y. 



2 Alabama Bird-Day Book, Dept. of Game and Fish. Montgomery, Alabama. 



3 Iowa Conservation, Vol. III. 



