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99. Palmer and Oldys on the Importation of Game-birds 

 into the U.S. 



[Importation of Game-birds and Eggs for Propagation. By T. S. 

 Palmer and Henry Oldys. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers" 

 Bulletin, No. 197. 8vo. Washington, 1904.] 



Two of the Assistants in the ever-active Biological Section 

 of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have prepared this 

 memoir, which contains many useful particulars as to the 

 importation of game-birds into the United States. The 

 Pheasant appears to be the only bird that has done really 

 well, great numbers of them being reared every season in the 

 game-preserves of New Jersey, while they are also largely 

 bred in New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and other States. 

 All attempts at the introduction of European Grouse, 

 Partridges, and Quails seem to have been unsuccessful. 

 " Thousands of Quails/' we are told, ' ' have been liberated in 

 the U.S. during the last thirty or forty years, but nowhere 

 has the species gained a foothold/' 



100. Pearson on the Birds of Russian Lapland. 



[Three Summers among the Birds of Russian Lapland. By Henry 

 J. Pearson. With History of Saint Triphon's Monastery and Appendices. 

 London : R. II. Porter, 1904. 1 vol. 68 pis.. 216 pp.] 



The extreme north of Europe has long been a favourite 

 hunting-ground for the British Ornithologist. Out of the 

 182 species of birds which are catalogued in the Appendix 

 to the present volume only 16 do not occur in the British 

 List, while 22 species that have never been known to nest 

 in Great Britain are to be found breeding in Russian 

 Lapland. This fact it is, as Mr. Pearson well observes, 

 that excites the great interest in these northern couutries 

 among the members of the B. O. U. and other bird-lovers. 



As shown by its title, the present volume contains an 

 account of three different expeditions to Russian Lapland, 

 in the summers of 1899, 1901, and 1903. The narrative is 

 in the form of a journal, but is written in full and excellent 

 English, quite free from the blemishes that too often adhere 

 to the journalistic style. On the first occasion the author 



