;34 Recent Literature. f^^^"^ 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Davie's Nests and Eggs of North American Birds.' — The fifth edition 

 of this useful book contains seventv-nine pages more than the preceding 

 edition, "^ the increase in size being due in part to tlie addition of new 

 matter and in part to the introduction of many illustrations, some of 

 which appear to have been drawn especially for this work but most of 

 which are borrowed from other publications. Thev are very unequal in 

 character and some of them might have been omitted to advantage, the 

 attempt to print half-tones on uncalendared paper being particularly 

 unsuccessful. 



The text is greatly improved, much that was wanting in the preceding- 

 editions being supplied in the present one. In some instances, however, 

 Mr. Davie does not appear to have availed himself of the most recent 

 information concerning the species treated. Thus his remarks in regard 

 to the Labrador Duck, Cory's Bittern, the Heath Hen, Ipswich Sparrow, 

 Philadelphia Vireo, Bachman's Warbler, and Olive Warbler by no means 

 represent our knowledge concerning these species. Jiinco hyemalis 

 connectens is wrongly given as Junco hyemalis skufeldti and Platypsaris 

 alaicB \sic\ is included presumably as a North American bird but on just 

 what authority is not stated. 



These errors are obviously not of a serious nature and they detract 

 but little from a book whose value is measured by its marked success.— 

 F. M. C. 



Bird-Nesting with a Camera.'^ — Since our last notice of this fine 

 work'* the parts have continued to appear with regularity and we now 

 have before us Part XII, completing the third volume. Many of the 

 plates are fully equal to those of volume I, of which we could not speak 

 too highlj-, while others have lost in clearness of definition, apparently 

 through too great enlargement, it being presumably the author's desire 

 to make all the plates in the book of the same size without regard to the 



' Nests and Eggs | of | North American Birds | By | Oliver Davie j 

 Author of " Methods in the Art of Taxidermy," etc. | — | The Fifth Edition 

 I — I Revised, Augmented and Illustrated | — | Part II. Ornithological 

 and Oological Collecting | (The preparation of skins, nests and eggs for the 

 cabinet.) | — | Columbus: | The Landon Press | 1S9S. — Svo. pp. [i-xi] 

 1-509, i-iS, i-xxi, numerous text cuts. 



2 Reviewed in ' The Auk', XI, 18S9, 32S. 



3 Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts. By Oswin A. J. Lee. Illus- 

 trated by the camera. 



■■ Auk XIV, 1897, p. 334: see also ibid., pp. 106, 247. 



