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Wild Wings, Adventures of a Camera 

 Hunter Among the Larger Wild Birds 

 of North America on Sea and Land. 

 By Herbert Keightley Job. With an 

 Introductory Letter by Theodore Roose- 

 velt. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 8vo. 

 xxviii-f 341 pages, 160 half-tones from 

 photographs by the author. Price, $3 net. 



Since the publication, in 1902, of his 

 'Among the Wild Fowl,' Mr. Job has 

 been hunting birds with a camera from Bird 

 Rock, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to the 

 Florida Keys, and the most important re- 

 sults of his work are given in this handsome 

 volume. 



Those who have been so fortunate as to 

 hear Mr. Job describe his adventures afield 

 will realize the charm of this book when we 

 say that he has succeeded in transferring to 

 the printed page the glowing enthusiasm 

 which adds so much to the interest and 

 attractiveness of his recountal of experiences 

 while in pursuit of birds. 



Like many another writer, however, he 

 confesses he "cannot adequately explain the 

 fascination which the wild birds have" for 

 him ; though every bird-lover will sympa- 

 thize with his effort to explain the bird's 

 power to awaken responses silent to every 

 other stimulus. Armed now with more 

 adequate photographic apparatus than that 

 with which the illustrations for his earlier 

 volume were made, Mr. Job has here done 

 greater justice alike to his subject and to 

 himself. But, even with the best available 

 camera and lenses, bird photography is 

 sufficiently difficult to tax the energy and 

 patience of its most ardent disciples, and 

 only the experienced can realize the effort 

 required to obtain as many excellent illus- 

 trations as are contained in this book. The 

 description of the manner in which the 

 splendid picture of the Laughing Gull ( page 

 132) was secured recalls a comment made, 

 a week or two later, to the reviewer, by the 

 captain of the life-saving station where Mr. 

 Job stayed while visiting the Gulls' haunts, 

 who, apropos of the time required to secure 



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this particular photograph, remarked, "that 

 man Job is sure well named." 



No experience, however, is required to 

 enable one to appreciate the hardships en- 

 dured by Mr. Job in southern Florida, or 

 the pluck needed to persevere in the face of 

 the difficulties one encounters there. The 

 tragic death of Warden Guy Bradley, who 

 was Mr. Job's guide in this region, lends a 

 melancholy interest to the chapters on Cape 

 Sable and the Cuthberl Rookery, to which 

 the warden took Mr. Job, and the latter's 

 graphic account of the trip gives one a vivid 

 impression of the hopelessly desolate country 

 in which for several years Mr. Bradley 

 labored so faithfully. — F. M. C. 



The Birds of Essex County, Massachu- 

 setts. By Charles Wendell Town- 

 send, M.D. Memoirs Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 III, Cambridge, Mass., published by the 

 Club, April, 1905. 4to, pp. 352, i half- 

 tone, I map. 



This elaborate treatise contains not only 

 an annotated list of Essex county birds, but 

 also chapters on ' Topography and Faunal 

 Areas,' 'Lighthouse Records,' 'Ornitholo- 

 gical History of Essex County, 1616-1904,' 

 and on the characteristic bird-life of the 

 ocean, sand beaches, sand dunes, salt 

 marshes, fresh marshes and ponds. Based 

 on long-continued, minute and sympathetic 

 observation, these introductory essays con- 

 tain much that is of scientific importance 

 and at the same time are most interest- 

 ing reading. Few portions of America 

 have an ornithological history extending 

 over nearly 300 years, and Dr. Townsend 

 has evidently availed himself of all desir- 

 able sources of information concerning the 

 bird-life of eastern Massachusetts when the 

 Great Auk, Labrador Duck, Sandhill 

 Crane and Swan were doubtless common 

 there. We note that the Great Auk is said 

 to have ranged southward only to Vir- 

 ginia, the discovery of humeri in a shell- 

 mound atOrmond, Florida, having evidently 

 been overlooked. (See Bird-Lore, IV, 

 1902, 97.) 



