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Mrs. Davenport's ' Birds of Windham and Bennington Counties, Vermont. 1 

 — These two counties embrace the southern fourth of the State of Vermont, 

 and aggregate an area of about forty miles square, varying in elevation 

 from about 200 feet in the valley of the Connecticut River, which forms its 

 eastern border, to nearly 4000 feet, in the interior. This region has been 

 Mrs. Davenport's home for the greater part of her life, and she has become 

 familiar with its flora and fauna through many years of careful exploration. 

 The character of the country is first described, followed by an annotated 

 list of the birds, numbering 176 species. The annotations contain much 

 definite information about the manner of occurrence of the species. Of 

 the twelve species of Dendroica recorded eight are given as more or less 

 common breeding summer residents. Unfortunately the list is badly 

 disfigured by typographical errors, for which the author is doubtless not 

 responsible. — J. A. A. 



Herman's The Protection of Birds in Hungary. 2 — Hungary — greatly to 

 her credit — has ever taken a most active interest in bird protection, and 

 from the first inception of the movement in Europe for the international 

 protection of birds has been one of its strongest supporters. This work, 

 issued in English, by order of the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture, and 

 prepared by Otto Herman, the well-known Hungarian ornithologist and 

 director of the Hungarian Central Bureau for Ornithology, is, in effect, an 

 historical account of the efforts for bird protection in Europe, and of the 

 present state of international bird protection. Preceding the historical 

 part is an introduction (pp. 9-23) treating of the generalities of the subject, 

 under 'Birds and Nature' and 'Birds and Man.' The 'Historical Part' 

 begins with a general statement respecting the changes unfavorable to 

 bird-life due to the spread of agriculture, and the resultant need for syste- 

 matic bird protection through legal enactments and international coopera- 

 tion. Then follows a detailed account of the progress of bird protection in 

 Europe, beginning with a meeting of German fanners and foresters in 

 1868 in advocacy of an international agreement, and of subsequent steps 

 to the same end down to the International Convention for the Protection of 

 Birds held in Paris in 1902, and the adoption, in 1906, of the 'International 

 Convention for the Protection of Birds,' into the "Corpus Juris" of Hun- 

 gary; which, "being endowed with the force of law, found the rational 

 protection of birds in Hungary a fait accompli." The signatories to the 

 Paris Convention (March 19, 1902) include, through their properly appointed 

 representatives, the following countries: Austria, Prussia, Belgium, Spain. 



1 Birds of Windham and Bennington Counties. By Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davenport. 

 Vermont Bird Club, Bulletin No. 2, pp. 5-14, July, 1907. 



2 Publication of the Royal Hungarian Minister of Agriculture | — | The Inter- 

 national | Convention | for | The Protection of Birds | concluded in 1902; | and | 

 Hungary. | Historical Sketch. | Written by order of his Exc. | Ignatius de Darangi, | 

 Hungarian Minister of Agriculture. | By | Otto Herman | late M. P. | Director of the 

 Hung. Centr. Bur. f. Ornithology. | [Seal] Budapest | Victor Hornyanszky, Court 

 Printer | 1907 — 8vo, pp. v + 241. 



