v "\.*? x \ Recent LUeratun 44.'; 



subject, bo thai in .1 way ii fails of it mi ion It i gratifying therefore 

 at a time when the upport of the entire country! nece ■■u-y, to the success 

 of this movement to find a work such as Dr, Eiornaday' which in originality 

 oi 1 1 in tratioo and method of pre entation, compel* the attention i 

 one into ■••■ ho •■ hand ii find ii 



The in ' paragraph "I the preface ound th< b note of the work: 

 ■■ Beyond que tion, we are e xt er m inating our finest species of mammal 

 bird and fi be according to law! I am appalled by the tna of evidence 

 proving that throughout the entire United State and Canada bate 



:iii<l province, the existing I * ■ j_» .• > f v. tern for the pre ervation of wild life i 

 fatally defective. There is not a single stati in our country from which flic 

 tillable game i oo( being rapidly and pei i tently hoi to death, legally, 

 or illegally, very much more rapidly than i1 i breeding, with extermination 

 for ill' mo I ol ii clo e in sight. This itatemenl b nol open to argument; 

 for million* of men know thai ii i literally true. We are living in a fo 

 paradise." In the 44 chapters into which the work is divided ev< 

 of the subject i con idered and the terse and forceful comments of the 

 author follow the quotations on the title p ig< Hew to the Line! Lei the 

 chips fall where they will "; " Nothing extenuate, 001 e1 down aught in 

 maUce." 



Thebool i a mine of information for the army of people who are enlisting 

 in the efforl to save our wild life from extermination and they can obtain 

 here in concise form the fad and argument! thai they require in carrying 

 on the campaign. 



There i a trong ' Foreword' by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Pre idenl 

 oi the New York Zo&logical Society and a fitting dedication to Mr. William 

 Dutcher, Presidenl of the National A- ociation of Audubon Societies and 

 " life-long champion of American bin 



All friends ol wild life owea debl of gratitude to Mr Hornaday and to 

 the New York Zodlogical Society for the preparation and publication of 

 - uch a woi I 



The Zodlogical Society'- Bulletin for May, 1913, contains reproductions 

 of many of the iilu tratione of Mr. Hornaday's work, with a fine colored 

 plate of birdi threatened with extinction and strong articles on Wild-life 

 .it ion. W. 8. 



Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia." Three parts of Mr. Mathews' 

 greal worl ippeared since our last issue. Pari 5 of Volume 2 com- 



plete theaccounl of the Pacific Gull and cover the Skuas, while thetwo 

 part;- of volume 3 deal with the Charadriiformes, treating of the Morinelli- 

 ,hi (Turn tone \, Hamatopodida (Oyster cati I haradriida (Plo 



virostrida (Stilts and Avocets), and Scolopacida (Snipi i 



i The Birds ol ttutralla. ByGregoryM Mathew ,Vol [I., pi 5 Jan 

 (pp. 477-627, pQ, 121 t-'i Oontenl Preface etc.) ; vol HI., pt. I, April 2 (pp. 

 I ioi, |, ii i.', 13" i.' ' Maj 2 pp.105 204, pll. 138 150) Witherby & Co., 

 326 High Holborn, London. 



