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includes Mount Anne, or Thompson's Mountain, the highest point on the 

 North Shore, some 225 feet above the sea, — a pine-clad, granite summit 

 in the midst of a forest wilderness. The park is otherwise charmingly 

 diversified, being a spot of exceptional natural beauty. 



We would call especial attention to the efforts of the Audubon 

 Monument Association of New Orleans to raise funds for the ei^ection of 

 a Monument to the famous ornithologist John James Audubon, in Audubon 

 Park, that city. To this end the Association offers for sale a well written 

 and tastefully bound volume of some eighty pages containing a sketch of 

 Audubon's life by Mrs. Mary Fluker Bradford of New Orleans. 



This work can be obtained of the Audubon Monument Association of 

 New Orleans for the price of one dollar. It is not only worth this sum 

 but every purchaser will have the satisfaction of helping a good cause. 



Houghton, Mifflin and Company announce among their Autumn 

 publications ' Birds of Village and Field,' by Florence A. Merriam. The 

 book is intended for beginners and, we are told, " is planned primarily to 

 meet'the needs of persons who are interested in birds but who know 

 very little about them, — to aid them, without a gun, to know and name 

 the common birds around them." The work will have nearly 300 

 illustrations. 



Respecting the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum, we 

 take the following from ' The Ibis, ' for July, 1S97: " The great collection of 

 birds'-eggs in the British Museum, which was arranged under the direc- 

 tion of Seebohm shortly before his death, contains about 48,000 specimens, 

 and is, no doubt, by far the most extensive collection of these objects in 

 existence. It is contained in 35 cabinets, with about 24 drawers in each 

 cabinet, and follows the systematic order of the Bird Catalogue. In it 

 are comprised, besides the old collection, the large collections of Gould, 

 Hume, Salvin and Godman, and Seebohm. It is thus rich in Indian, 

 Palsearctic, Australian, and Central American eggs, but comparatively 

 poor in South American and African forms. A Handbook of General 

 Oologv, based upon this splendid series, Avould be a most valuable work, 

 and will, we trust, shortly be undertaken. Nothing of the sort has been 

 published since the appearance of Des Murs's 'Traite General d'Oologie 

 Ornithologique,' in 1S60." 



From the same authority we learn that the Gatke Collection of birds 

 and eggs, and the library belonging therewith, has become the property 

 of the Prussian State, and placed under the control of the Royal Biological 

 Institution in Heligoland ; it will soon be removed to the new Heligoland 

 Museum and be made accessible to the public. 



