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print has now been drawn upon except the great files of bulletins and pro- 

 ceedings which are to be found only in the larger city libraries; and not, 

 by any means, in even all of these. The work now being done is in this 

 direction, and it is a work both laborious and costly. 



"In the preparation of large masses of material, never as yet adequately 

 found in print, the Preparator of the proposed book has enjoyed the gen- 

 erous help of just forty bird students and field workers. Of these, twenty- 

 five are men of national reputation in this domain. When this work is 

 ready for the press, the student who shall look to it for information con- 

 cerning times, places, number of eggs, nesting conditions and distinctive 

 habits of birds during the nesting season may confidently look to find, in 

 'Nesting Ways,' the vital facts, so far as known, for all North American 

 birds. Here, in reasonably brief space, he will readily find through careful 

 lists and indexes that which would cost him no less than two hundred 

 dollars, if bought in original form, and which would involve, even then, 

 literally months of perplexing and wearisome research. The illustrations 

 will be full, and wholly original. A large number of the subjects portrayed 

 have never before been photographed; and there will be found in this work 

 not a few facts that are absolutely new to science. 



"The book in question, incubating in the Preparator's mind for many 

 years, has not been undertaken with any thought of personal gain. Pre- 

 pared, throughout, with a view to the needs of the great host of younger 

 bird students, the convenience of the scientific student has been as care- 

 fully borne in mind. And every possible effort will be made to keep the 

 price of the work within the scope of humble purses." 



In this connection the author makes an appeal for full and authentic 

 data concerning the nesting of some thirty to forty species of birds, mostly 

 West Coast forms, a list of which he presents, and states that credit will 

 be given for any aid rendered. 



Some years since, Otmar Reiser, curator of the Bosnia-Herzegowina 

 Laudesmuseum in Sarajevo, began the publication of his ' Materialien zu 

 einer Ornis Balcanica,' of which Volume II, 'Bulgarien und Ost-Rumlien,' 

 appeared in 1894, and Volume IV, 'Montenegro,' in 1896. After a lapse 

 of ten years, Volume III, ' Griechenland und die griechischen Inseln (mit 

 Ausnahme von Kreta),' is announced to appear in 1906, and Volume V, 

 'Serbie,' in 1907, to be followed soon after by Volume I, 'Bosnia-Herze- 

 gowina,' completing the work, which is published by Adolf Holzhausen, 

 Vienna. Each volume in large octavo, illustrated with both colored and 

 plain plates and a map of the region treated. 



