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after they have been fledged. The lady’s custom of feeding 
this albino has made it extremely confiding, for it will ap- 
proach a person within two or three feet. Many kodak pic- 
tures of this white robin have been taken, and I give here four 
of them grouped together. ® 
BOOK REVIEWS 
In this section are reviews of new, or particularly important and interesting books 
in the fields of natural science. Books dealing with botany or kindred subjects should 
be sent to the Editor, the University of Notre Dame. All other books for review 
should be sent to Carroll Lane Fenton, at the Walker Museum, the University of Chi- 
eago, Ill. Publishers are requested to furnish prices with books. 
TREES, STARS, AND BIRDS. By Edwin Lincoln Mosely. World Book 
Company, 1920. $1.80. 
This is a book designed primarily for use in schools, but it will be 
of value to anyone who wants to find out the more essential facts about 
the things which Mr. Mosely discusses. The style is interesting, and 
the facts, while not new, are exactly those which most people do not 
know. The numerous quotations from poets serve to link the natural 
science of the book with the literature of the world, and they do it 
far better than could any long formal essay on the relation of poets 
and nature. E 
The section of the book devoted to trees is almost a complete popular 
manual for their study. There is an excellent discussion of the struc- 
ture of the limbs, trunk, and roots, of various typical tree groups, and 
of the proper ways in which to care for trees, both old and young. 
The second part of the book, headed “Stars,” not only treats of stars, 
but the planets, satellites, and nebulae. It, like the rest of the book, is 
non-technical, but is at the same time accurate and specific. 
It is the third section, however—that on birds,—which most arouses 
my enthusiasm. That section should be enlarged a little by discussions 
of some of the general facts and problems of ornithology, and _ then 
