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the various causes, preventable and otherwise, which have led to this sad 
result. Section IV treats of the protection of song birds, and suggests 
various means for promoting their increase, particularly in the vicinity 
of our homes. The titles of the chapters under this section indicate the 
means suggested, as follows: Chapter I. ‘By furnishing them Trees, 
Vines, and Shrubs. Flowers for Hummingbirds. General Suggestions 
for Tree-planting for Birds. Rural Schools and Nature.’ Chapter II. 
‘Provide Nesting-boxes. Do not cut down every Hollow-tree.’ Chapter 
II. ‘Provide Drinking and Bathing Fountains.’ Chapter IV. ‘ Feed- 
ing Birds in Winter and in unfavorable weather at other seasons.’ 
Chapter V. ‘Miscellaneous. Dust Baths, Gravel, and Lime.’ Chapter 
VI. ‘Protecting Birds from their Natural Enemies.’ Chapter VII. 
‘The English Sparrow Question.’ Chapter VIII. ‘Birds on Hats, 
Boys, Collectors, So-called Bird Students, Bird Hunters, Ubiquitous 
Gunners.’ Chapter IX. ‘Song Birds as Food.’ Sections V and VI relate 
to ‘Education and the Birds’; especially to the awakening of an intel- 
ligent and kindly interest in birds on the part of school children, 
through ‘bird day’ exercises in schools, and by other means. ‘The 
Birds before Uncle Sam’ is a contribution to a bird day program, in 
which ‘ Uncle Sam’ is supposed to hear the complaints of the birds and 
to give judgment in their behalf, the birds being personated by boys and 
girls in appropriate costumes. Section VIII discusses ‘Game Protection 
from the Nature Lover’s Point of View’; and the concluding Section IX 
gives a yariety of useful information about magazines more or less 
devoted to bird protection, the care and protection of forests, and allied 
topics; Audubon Societies, Game Protective and Humane Associations, 
a list, with addresses; the U. S. Department of Agriculture, its various 
divisions, their work and publications; list of Agricultural Experiment 
Stations in the United States and Canada; and, finally, a list of books 
helpful to beginners in bird study. The work is thus novel in concep- 
tion, and should be extremely helpful to those interested in the develop- 
ment of nature study in schools and in the education of the general 
public. It also not only urges bird protection but furnishes suggestions 
in respect to providing food and favorable breeding places for birds 
whose surroundings have become more or less untenable through the 
necessary changes in environment due to man’s agency. — J. A. A. 
Macpherson’s ‘ History of Fowling.’'— A bibliographical notice of 
‘The Literature of Fowling’ occupies pp. xiii-xxv of the ‘ Introduction,’ 
1A | History of Fowling | being an account of the many curious | devices 
by which Wild Birds are or | have been captured in different parts of the 
world | By the | Rev. H. A. Macpherson, M. A. | Member of the British 
Ornithologists’ Union, author of | “The Fauna of Lakeland,” etc., joint 
author of | “The Fur and Feather Series,” etc. | [Vignette.] Edinburgh: 
David Douglas | MDCCCXCVII. | All rights reserved. — Large 8vo, pp. 
liv-++5r1, pll. v, and nearly 200 text figures. 
