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endurance under adverse and trying weather conditions, of tact and skill 

 in secviring results that minutely reveal the home-life of a family of Golden 

 Eagles. The story is simply told and most admirably illustrated, and forms 

 a memorable contribution to the life history of " the King of Birds." — J. A. A. 



Whymper's 'Egyptian Birds.' — Mr. Whymper's sumptuously printed 

 and beautifully illustrated volume,^ he tells us, is "for the wayfaring man 

 who, travelling this ancient Egypt, wishes to learn something of the birds 

 he sees." About three-score species are described and illustrated, being 

 selected from the more common and characteristic birds of the lower Nile 

 Valley. On plate 2 some half-dozen different species are depicted in flight, 

 to assist the reader to identify those most frequently seen by shape and 

 pose in flight. The other fifty plates illustrate as many species in color. 

 Each is described briefly in the text, the description being followed by 

 several pages of biographical matter, relating especially to the Egyptian 

 environment. A briefly annotated list of the birds of Egypt, comprising 

 356 species, follows the general text of this attractive book, which doubt- 

 less will prove of much interest and assistance to the ornithologically in- 

 clined Egyptian tourist. — J. A. A. 



Job's 'The Sport of Bird Study.' — "Of course there's nothing wrong in 

 shooting lawful game in moderation, but it's simply this, that the new way 

 is so much better than the old that we don't care for shooting. Gunners 

 can hunt only in the fall, but our hunting lasts the whole year. Their 

 game, too, is limited to a few kinds, while we have every sort that flies." 

 This is the key-note to Mr. Job's latest book, 'The Sport of Bird-Study." ^ 

 The first chapter deals with the general subject of 'hunting with a camera,' 

 its advantages as an outdoor sport, available at all seasons of the year, and 

 as an aid and incentive in bird and fnammal study. "It destroys no life, 

 yet yields results far superior to those of gun and flesh-pot in our stage of 

 civilization where we need not shoot to eat." 



In the present book the author takes us on numberless excursions camera- 

 hunting, recounting his successes, and some failures, in photographing all 

 sorts of birds, usually in the nesting season, so that the pictures show the 

 old birds on their nests, or feeding their young, or the nests with eggs in 

 situ, or young birds at different stages of development. The pictures are 



1 Egyptian | Birds | for the most part seen in the Nile Valley | By | Charles Whym- 

 per I London | Adam and Charles Black | 1909 — 8vo, pp. x -I- 222, with 51 full-page 

 illustrations in color and 13 line drawings in text. Price, 20 s. net. 



2 The Sport of | Bird-Study | A Book for young or active People | By | Herbert 

 Keightley Job | Author of "Wild Wings" and "Among the 'Water-Fowl." ] Member 

 of The American Ornithologists Union, etc. | Profusely illustrated with Photographs 

 from I Life by the Author | [Vignette] New York | The Outing Publishing Company 

 I MCMVIII — 8vo, pp. xvi -1- 284 -t- iv, with 130 half-tone illustrations (= 78 full- 

 page plates'). This work is also issued in another edition, which has an appendix 

 containing an annotated list of the birds of Litchfield County, Connecticut (216 

 species). This edition is designated as the " Connecticut Edition." This we have 

 not seen. 



