222 Recent Literature. \_Kv^\ 



as before. About Dec. 15, it left, and the following letter from Mr. W. E. 

 Bray, Anderson, South Carolina, gives subsequent history. 



Anderson, S. C. 



On Friday evening, Jan. 14, I was hunting on Rockey River near this 

 city, and killed a wild duck, with a band on his leg marked Box 48 Kings- 

 ville, Ont. 



I supposed who ever sent him out wanted to hear from him, so I am 

 writing to let you know where he came to his end. He was a very fine 

 specimen. I must commend him for his judgment, for he came to the best 

 county in the best state in Ainerica. 



If you will let me hear from you, I will return the band I took from his 

 leg. So hoping you will send me his pedigree, I will close until I hear from 

 you. Send me your address in full. W. E. Bray. 



Mr. Miner writes that Mr. Bray has since sent him the identical ring 

 which was on the Duck's leg. 



Kingsville hes on the north shore of Lake Erie, about twenty-five miles 

 from the east end of the lake. — W. E. Saunders, London, Ontario. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Thayer on Concealing Coloration in Animals.' — It is now fourteen years 

 since the eminent artist, Abbott H. Thayer, first published his discovery 

 of "The law which underlies Protective Coloration," in 'The Auk' for 

 April and July, 1896. These articles were later republished, in full or in 

 abstract, in the 'Yearbook' of the Smithsonian Institution for 1898, and 

 in 'Nature' in 1902. Mr. Thayer has also given many practical demon- 

 strations of his discovery before various gatherings of naturalists, his first 

 oral presentation of the subject, with experiments and demonstrations, so 

 far as we are aware, having been made before the American Ornithologists' 

 Union at the annual meeting held in Cambridge, in November, 1896, and 

 again more elaborately before the same body in New York, in Novem- 

 ber, 1897. Later similar demonstrations were given in England and in 

 various cities in Europe. His previous most elaborate exposition of the 

 subject in print appeared in the ' Popular Science Monthly ' for December, 



1 Concealing-Coloration | in the | Animal Kingdom | An Exposition of the Laws 

 of Disguise | through Color and Pattern: | Being a Summary of | Abbott H. Thayer's | 

 Discoveries | By | Gerald H. Thayer | With an Introductory Essay by | A. H. Thayer] 

 Illustrated by | Abbott H. Thayer Gerald H. Thayer | Richard S. Meryman and 

 others | and with Photographs | New York | The Macmillan Co. | 1909 [= February, 

 1910] — 4to, pp. xix + 260, 16 colored plates, and 140 black-and-white figures. 



