160 NATURE STUDY REVIEW [8 :4^April, 1912 



Any book on birds by H. K. Job is bound to be worth while. 

 These two books are interesting and exceedingly profitable to the 

 bird lover. The Sport of Bird Study is a series of accounts of 

 adventures in the photography of birds, together with descrip- 

 tions of their habits. It is systematized by taking the birds some- 

 what in the order of their classification. There is an added charm 

 to the book because a pretty constant companion of the author 

 in his experiences is "Ned", to whom he refers in the early pages 

 of the book as follows : 



"Out of school hours some of the boys, on their own hook, 

 scour the fields and woods for miles around, and Ned is one of 

 these. Young as he is, he has already come to know the birds 

 wonderfully well, and he seldom meets one he cannot recognize, 

 if only he has a good glance at it. There is keen rivalry among 

 these boys as to who can see and identify the largest number of 

 kinds of birds each year." 



The book is splendidly illustrated with numerous photo- 

 graphs that can be appreciated only by one who has endeavored 

 to "get" birds with the camera. There are numerous suggestive 

 hints in the book as to how the success have been won, but this 

 phase of the matter is left largely to the second book, Hozv to 

 Study Birds. 



Here are chapters on "Learning Birds' Songs and Notes," 

 "How to Find Birds of Prey," "Camera Hunting and Outfit," 

 "Using the Ordinary Camera," and fifteen more, all making up 

 a "handbook of methods, the embodiment of the author's thirty 

 years' experience." This book is also well illustrated, and both 

 text and pictures make quite clear how birds can be followed, 

 studied, and photographed with quite as much zest as the sports- 

 man has in killing them. A little experience in attempting to 

 duplicate the author's results will convince the most ardent gunner 

 that it is a much more taxing form of sport, and a much more 

 exciting trial of human skill against bird wit to bag game with a 

 camera than with a shot-gun, and it is Job's purpose to convince 

 his readers that this is true. 



Both lx)oks will be exceedingly valuable additions to every 

 bird lover's library. The latter will be found especially helpful 

 to the amateur naturalist who is ambitious to do photography, as 

 the directions both as to equipment and methods of procedure 

 are explicit and authoritative. 



The Eleventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study 

 of Education. 



