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Both as regards text and illustrations the author has shown excellent 

 judgment in using the necessarily limited space at his command to the 

 best advantage. Every one of the 395 species treated appears to be 

 figured, many of them in colors. These illustrations were made from 

 mounted specimens and if one must admit that they do not represent 

 the highest type of taxidermy, at least they are useful. 



As organizing inspector of nature study of the education department 

 of Victoria, Mr. Leach is familiar with his audience and its special needs, 

 and he has evidently supplied them satisfactorily and in a manner which 

 should do much to promote bird study and bird protection in Australia. — 

 F. M. C. 



'Bird Stories from Burroughs.' — This small volume 1 has been 

 gathered from Mr. Burroughs's books, dating from 1871 to 1909, and 

 consists of chapters on about thirty species of the best known birds of 

 the Northeastern States. A chapter is given to each species, and the 

 " chapters are arranged in a sort of chronological order," according to the 

 time of the bird's arrival in spring, or with reference to the season when 

 the species is particularly conspicuous. Hence the Bluebird, Robin, 

 Flicker, and Phoebe head the list, which includes the Crow, Whip-poor-will, 

 two hawks, the Screech Owl, Ruffed Grouse, Chickadee, and some twenty 

 other species which have been subjects of the author's special attention. 

 The selections include also six of his bird poems. It is unnecessary to 

 commend Mr. Burroughs's bird stories: the warm welcome they have 

 always received is sufficient guaranty that the present selection from 

 them will meet with a cordial reception. The eight beautiful drawings, 

 four of them in color, of some of our best loved birds, by Mr. Fuertes, add 

 greatly to the attractiveness of this little volume. — J. A. A. 



McAtee's ' Local Names of Water-fowl and Other Birds.'. — In a 



brochure of 24 pages, 2 reprinted from ' Forest and Stream,' Mr. McAtee 

 gives local names for 96 species, 61 of which are game birds (ducks, geese, 

 and shorebirds), and the others various non-game birds, of which 16 are 

 passerine birds. These names are mainly additional to those given by 

 Trumbull in his 'Names and Portraits of Birds ' (1888), and are compiled 

 in part from ' The Auk ' and other published sources, but chiefly from the 

 author's own notes taken during field work made under the auspices of the 

 Biological Survey in North and South Carolina and the Gulf States. 

 " The principal additions now made to Trumbull's lists," says the author, 



1 Bird Stories | from Burroughs | Sketches of Bird Life | taken from the works 

 of | John Burroughs | With Illustrations by | Louis Agassiz Fuertes | [Seal] Boston 

 and New York | Houghton Mifflin Company | The Riverside Press — (No date = 

 Sept., 1911.) 12mo. pp. viii + 174, pll. 8, 4 colored. 60 cents net. 



2 Local Names of Waterfowl and Other Birds. By W. L. McAtee, Biological 

 Survey, Washington, D. C. 24mo, 24 pp., reprinted from 'Forest and Stream," 

 issue of July 29, 1911, pp. 172-174, 196, 197. 



