80 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Nature Leaflets revised, with New Half-tone Illustrations and 



Cuts. 

 Nov. 9. Nature Leaflet 22. How to identify Birds, 7 pages. Sixth 



edition. 

 Nov. 9. Nature Leaflet 23. How to find Birds, 7 pages. Sixth edition. 

 Nov. IL Nature Leaflet 12. Winter Birds at the Farm, 8 pages. Fourth 



edition. 

 Nov. IL Nature Leaflet 24. How to approach Birds, 6 pages. Sixth 



edition. 

 Nov. IL Nature Leaflet 25. How to attract Birds, 7 pages. Sixth 



edition. 



Special Report (in Press). 

 Nov. 27. A History of the Game Birds, Wild Fowl and Shore Birds of 

 Massachusetts and Adjacent States, 621 pages. Second edition, illus- 

 trated, revised and enlarged. 



Bulletin (in Press). 

 Nov. 27. Economic Biology, Bulletin 2. The Domestic Cat: Bird Killer, 

 Mouser and Destroyer of Wild Life: Means of utiUzing and con- 

 trolling it, 130 pages. First edition with haK-tone illustrations and 

 line cuts. 



The first edition of the report on the "Game Birds, Wild 

 Fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States" 

 having been exhausted, another edition was prepared during 

 the summer. Additions, corrections and appendices tend to 

 bring it up to date. 



A mass of material collected last year forms the basis of a 

 bulletin on the domestic cat, which is now in the hands of the 

 printer, and probably will be ready for distribution by the 

 time this report reaches the public. 



This bulletin tells of the origin and history of the house cat, 

 shows how it has run wild and spread over New England, 

 even to the uttermost limits of the forests, and has become a 

 serious menace to poultry, game and birds, as well as to such 

 useful insectivorous animals as shrews, bats, toads, newts, etc. 

 It deals with the various means of preventing the destruction 

 of poultry and birds by cats, weighs the value of the animal 

 as a killer of rats and mice, touches upon the cat "in law" 

 and as a distributor of disease, sums up its economic value, 

 and deals with the means of keeping it in control. This bul- 



