"igie j Recent lAterature. 215 



few have had the opportunity to study carefully in its summer home, 

 another on the nesting of the Redstart i and an account of a tame Olive- 

 backed Thrush - which she raised from a nestling. — W. S. 



Washburn's ' Further Observations on Minnesota Birds.' ^ — Min- 

 nesota birds bid fair to be well cared for in the future, for in addition to Dr. 

 Roberts' list we have another circular from the Agricultural E.xperiment 

 Station on common birds, by the State Entomologist, Mr. F. L. Washburn. 

 This is issued in response to the great demand in the schools for a similar 

 earlier publication (Circular 32). Twenty-three familiar species arc 

 described in a popular way and illustrated by cuts from 'Citizen Bird' 

 representing paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, which have been verj' 

 well printed. Mr. Washburn's pamphlet should prove very satisfactory 

 for school use. — W. S. 



Recent Papers on Bird and Game Protection. — Dr. Walter P. 

 Taylor * at the Meeting of the American Association of Museums in San 

 Francisco read an important paper, reviewing the carelessness of legislative 

 bodies in passing laws affecting wild birds and animals which have operated 

 toward the extinction of really valuable species. He then pointed out an 

 important function of the museum in placing at the service of the State 

 the results of its technical and economic investigations and in training 

 experts who can work directly for the State in the investigation and con- 

 servation of the native fauna. 



Two recent pamphlets from the Biological Survey are Mr. Henshaw's 

 report as Chief of the Survey ^ and the report of the governor of Alaska 

 on the Alaska Game law." The bird work outlined by Mr. Henshaw has 

 been largely published in special reports already noticed in these columns, 

 and covers the mortality of wild ducks on Great Salt Lake; ducks in rela- 

 tion to oyster industry; food of wild ducks; collecting of data on migration 

 and distribution; notes on conditions of ten national bird reservations are 

 given and on the enforcement of the Migratory Bird Law. Importations 

 of foreign birds total 270,000 for the year 1915, of which 216,000 were cana- 

 ries. In Alaska the bag limit for game birds has been of great value in 



1 A Skillful Architect [The Redstart]. By Cordelia J. Stanwood. The House Beauti- 

 ful, February, 1916. pp. xl-xlii. 



- The Chronicle of a Tame Olive-backed Thrush. By Cordelia J. Stanwood. Wilson 

 Bulletin, No. 93, December, 1915. 



» Further Observations on Minnesota Birds: their Economic Relations to the Agricul- 

 turist. By F. L. Washburn. Circular 35, Minn. Exper. Sta. January 15, 1916. 



* The Museum of Natural History and the Conservation of Game. By Dr. W. P. Taylor. 

 Proc. Amer. Asso. of Museums, IX, pp. 96-103, 1915 



5 Report of Chief of Bureau of Biological Survey. By H. W. Henshaw. Ann. Rep. U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., 1915, reprint, pp. 1-15. 



• Report of the Governor of Alaska on the Alaska Game Law By J. F. A. Strong, pp. 

 1-18. 



