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Stories of Bird Life. By T. Gilbert 

 Pearson. With illustrations by and 

 under the supervision of John L. Ridg- 

 way. Richmond. B. F. Johnson Pub- 

 lishing Company, 1901. i6mo, 236 

 pages, numerous ills. 



Professor Pearson has drawn on a life- 

 long field of experience to furnish the ma- 

 terial for this volume which, therefore, 

 unlike many additions to popular ornitho- 

 logy, possesses much of interest and value. 

 A close student and sympathetic recorder, 

 he presents us with a series of studies of 

 certain birds in the south which may be 

 read with both pleasure and profit by begin- 

 ners as well as past-masters in the study of 

 birds. It is, however, to the former that he 

 especially addresses himself, and his exper- 

 ience in teaching gives him a point of view 

 which many popular nature writers lack. 

 Having told his story he calls attention to 

 the significance of the facts observed in a 

 series of what he has well named ' thought 

 questions,' which should lead the reader to 

 make independent observations. The book 

 is thus admirably adapted for school work, 

 and we wish for it the wide circulation it 

 deserves. — F. M. C. 



A First Book Upon the Birds of Ore- 

 gon and Washington. By William 

 Rogers Lord. 1902. J. K. Gill Com- 

 pany, Portland, Oregon. i6mo, 304+ 

 iv pages, numerous ills. 



This is a revised, enlarged, and greatly 

 improved edition of the first edition of this 

 book which was issued in the summer of 

 1901. Attracted by West Coast birds Mr. 

 Lord found, on coming to this region, that 

 there were no popular guides to a know- 

 ledge of western birds and he has prepared 

 this book to meet in part what is evidently 

 a widely felt want. 



The combined experience of a student 

 and teacher of birds make the needs of both 

 a practical matter, and Mr. Lord writes 

 as one who addresses an audience with 

 whose wants he is familiar. Thus there 

 are chapters on ' How to Know the Birds,' 



' How to Name the Birds,' ' How to Do- 

 mesticate and Tame Birds,' and 'A 

 Course of Study upon Birds for Schools and 

 Bird Students.' The latter is here of espe- 

 cial importance, since the book has been 

 selected for supplementary reading in the 

 public schools of Oregon. 



The publication of the first edition of this 

 work brought to its author much additional 

 information "both for new knowledge and 

 for correction," and the present edition may 

 be accepted as accurate and authoritative. 

 It should exert a very important influence 

 on the study of the birds of Washington 

 and Oregon.— F. M. C. 



Wild Birds in City Parks. By Her- 

 bert Eugene Walter and Alice Hall 

 Walter. Revised Edition. Chicago. 

 1902. i6mo, 45 pages. For sale by F. 

 C. Baker, Chicago. Academy of 

 Sciences, Lincoln Park, Chicago. 



Students of the bird-life of city parks, 

 which often offer unusual advantages for ob- 

 serving the migration, will be interested in 

 this booklet which is based on a study of 

 the spring migration of birds during the past 

 six years in Lincoln Park, Chicago, and is 

 designed especially for the use of bird stu- 

 dents in that locality. It contains some 

 admirable ' General Hints ' on bird study, 

 descriptions of 100 species of birds arranged 

 in the order of their average first appear- 

 ance, 'A Table of Arrival,' 'a Table of 

 Occurrence,' 'a chart showing the num- 

 ber of different kinds of birds seen in 

 Lincoln Park during the height of migra- 

 tion,' a 'Supplementary List' of birds 

 which may be reasonably looked for, and a 

 blank for recording observations. All this 

 is excellent, but we should imagine that the 

 book would be more helpful to students of 

 the birds of Lincoln Park if the space de- 

 voted to descriptions of plumages had been 

 given to fuller information concerning the 

 manner of a bird's occurrence, than can be 

 presented in tables or by diagrams. — 

 F. M. C. 



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