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birds, their modifications and adaptations; the illustrations, based on 

 photographs, show the living birds, their feet, wings, and feathers. Itjis 

 thus well adapted to its function of a manual of instruction for visitors to 

 this portion of the exhibits at the New York Zoological Park. — J. A. A. 



Beebe's ' Two Bird Lovers in Mexico.' 1 — 'Two Bird-Lovers in Mex- 

 ico' is a pleasantly written account of a winter trip across Mexico, from 

 Vera Cruz to Manzanillo, made by the author and his wife during 1903-04. 

 As much time was spent 'roughing it,' camping out with a guide and 

 traveling with animals, their opportunities for studying the birds and 

 animals of portions of the States of Colima and Jalisco could hardly have 

 been more favorable, and the pages of this attractive book, as regards 

 both illustrations and text, show the good use made of these unusual 

 advantages. ' Two Bird-Lovers in Mexico ' is thus a book for the general 

 reader as well as the nature-lover and the naturalist. Says the author: 

 "The entire trip was so novel, so absolutely devoid of unpleasant features, 

 and on the whole so inexpensive, that it seemed to me that the knowledge 

 of such an outing would tempt many lovers of Nature to this neighboring 

 Republic." Mr. Beebe's book cannot fail to be such an incentive, and 

 the chapter by Mrs. Beebe on ' How we did it ' will be of great assistance 

 to those who may wish to follow in their footsteps. 



Besides the incidental and many quite extended notices of birds, mam- 

 mals, reptiles, and insects contained in the three hundred and fifty pages 

 or more of the general narrative, an annotated list of the birds and mam- 

 mals observed is given in an appendix of twenty-five pages, with cross 

 references to the general text 2 where they are further mentioned or more 

 fully described. As the author is an enthusiastic and well trained ob- 

 server, his narrative of experiences in the Mexican tropics is full of attrac- 

 tively presented information respecting the region visited and its inhabi- 

 tants — t human as well as animal and vegetable. — J. A. A. 



Hantzsch's Birds of Iceland. 3 — This detailed summary of present 

 knowledge of the ornithology of Iceland consists of two parts, the first» 

 being the generalities of the subject (pp. 1-90), and the second a systematic 



'Two Bird-Lovers in | Mexico | By | C. William Beebe | Curator of Ornithology of 

 the New York Zoological Park and Life | Member of the New York Zoological 

 society; Member | of the Ornithologists' Union | Illustrated with Photographs | from 

 Life by the Author. ] [Vignette] Boston and New York I Houghton, Mifflin and Com- 

 pany | The Riverside Press, Cambridge | 1905 — 8vo, pp. xii+408, with 15 half-tone 

 plates and 108 text cuts. «3.00. 



-Unfortunately the references to the later part of the book are quite often two 

 pages out of the way, as if made from proof-sheets and the pagination later changed 

 by carrying the folios two pages ahead. 



3 Beitrag zur Kenntniss | der | Vogelwelt Islands | Von Bernhard Hantzsch Mit 

 26 Abbildungen und 1 Karte | Berlin | Verlag von R. Friedliinder * Sohn | 1905 — 

 8vo, pp. vi+341, with 24 text cuts and 1 map. Price 12 marks. 



