"j^^g I Rccetit Literature. "^41 



Prof. Cooke's 'Birds of Colorado '' having "led to quite an extensive 

 correspondence and in several cases the examination or re-examination 

 of large series of specimens." The new information thus obtained has 

 resulted in increasing the list of Colorado birds from 360, as given in 

 Bulletin 371, to 374, a revised summary allotting the fourteen additional 

 species to the various categories in which thej belong. Additions are 

 also made to the ' Bibliography of Colorado Ornithology," and further 

 notes are given relative to the distribution of species pre\iously treated. — 

 F. M. C 



Proceedings of the Delaw^are Valley Ornithological Club." — This is 

 the second 'Abstract of Proceedings' issued by the Delaware ^'alley 

 Club, the first having been published in 1892. In the future it is pro- 

 posed "to issue a yearly number covering. the Proceedings with much 

 greater detail." The present 'Abstract' shows an average attendance at 

 the bi-monthly meetings of the Club of about sixteen members, gives the 

 titles of the papers presented with references to their place of publication, 

 if any, and other matters of interest to the Club, which is evidently a 

 llourishing organization. — F. M. C. 



Kearton's 'With Nature and a Camera.'* — This is an unusual book: 

 its author has made a large amount of valuable information readable ; its 

 illustrator has accomplished surprising and inspiring achievements with 

 the camera. We do not recall a more satisfactorily illustrated book^ 

 although ffom frontispiece to tailpiece every picture was made through 

 a lens, and they not only furnish a record of facts which the worker with 

 brush or pencil cannot hope to equal, but many of them possess a beauty 

 rivalling the best productions of the natural history artist. 



The first three of the eleven chapters of this noteworthy book treat of 

 the human and feathered inhabitants of St. Kilda, the remaining eight 

 are respectively entitled "Gamekeepers: Their Friends and Foes,"' 

 "Nests, Eggs, and Young,"' "\Yhere Birds Sleep,"' "Sea-Birds and their 



' See ' The Auk,' XIV, 1S97, p. 331 . 



'-Abstract of the Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club 

 of Philadelphia. For the years 1892 to 1897. Published by the Club, 1S9S. 

 8vo. pp. 1-42. 



^ With I Nature and a Camera | Being the Adventures and Observations | 

 of a Field Naturalist and an | Animal Photographer | By | Richard Kearton, 

 F. Z. S. I Author of ' British Birds' Nests,' ' Birds' Nests, Eggs, and Egg-Col- 

 lecting,' etc., etc. I Illustrated by 180 Pictures from Photographs ] by Cherry 

 Kearton | Third Thousand | Cassell and Company, Limited | London, Paris 

 & Melbourne | 1S98 | All Rights Reserved. — 8vo. pp. xvi + 36S, numerous, 

 half-tone illustrations. 



