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Bird Homes. The Nests, Eggs and 

 Breeding Habits of the Land Birds 

 Breeding in the Eastern United 

 States , With Hints on the Rear- 

 ing and Photographing ok Young 

 Birds. By A. Radclyffe Dugmore. 

 Illustrated with photographs from na- 

 ture by the author. Doubleday & 

 McClure Co. 8vo. Pages xvi-f 183, 

 50 half-tone ills., and 16 colorotypes. 

 $2 net. 



This attractive volume is to be com. 

 pared only with Davie's ' Nests and Eggs 

 of North American Birds', from which it 

 differs in arrangement, the descriptions 

 being grouped according to nesting-site, 

 and not systematically as in Davie, while 

 Mr. Dugmore gives a short description of 

 the plumages of the species treated, but 

 generally fails to mention the authority for 

 statements not based on his own experi- 

 ence, and, in this respect, the book is less 

 useful to the working ornithologist than 

 Davie's. In its illustrations, however, it 

 is immeasurably superior to Davie's book ; 

 in fact, we can conceive of no better 

 demonstration of the superiority of the 

 camera over the pen or brush in depicting 

 birds' nests than that furnished by a 

 comparison of Mr. Dugraore's beautiful 

 plates with those contained in Davie's 

 ' Nests and Eggs.' 



Mr. Dugmore will be known to orni- 

 thologists chiefly by his illustrations in 

 Scott's 'Bird Studies.' In the present 

 work, however, he shows a far clearer 

 perception of the true value of the camera 

 to the ornithologist, and his photographs 

 as here reproduced in black and white 

 are so eminently satisfactory that we 

 cannot but regret the attempt to produce 

 any of them in color. 



Mr. Dugmore has devoted much time 

 to rearing young birds, and his notes 

 on the habits of a number of our common 

 birds in confinement contain no little 

 amount of original and valuable informa- 

 tion. His position in regard to egg-collect- 

 ing is in accord with that of all true 



ornithologists, and we are assured that 

 his work will e.Kert a widespread influence 

 in creating and fostering an interest in 

 bird-study and a proper regard for the 

 rights of birds. — F. M. C. 



Nature's Calendar. By Ernest Inger- 

 SOLL. With 12 illustrations from 

 original photographs by Clarence 

 LowN. New York and London, Harper 

 & Brothers i2mo. Pages xii + 270. 

 12 full-page half-tones. 



'What to see in nature and when to see 

 it,' is the motto of this book, and its 

 author's skill with the pen and knowledge 

 of the literature of natural history have 

 served a good purpose in presenting in 

 attractive and useful form a large amount 

 of information concerning the seasons 

 and their plant and animal life. 



The matter is arranged under months, 

 a general description of the characteristic 

 phenomena of each month being followed 

 by calendars wherein are summarized the 

 statements in relation to Mammals, Birds, 

 Fishes, Batrachians and Reptiles, and 

 Insects. "The dates here given," it is 

 said, "refer to an ordinary season about 

 New York City," and wide margins are 

 left (the text occupying less than half of 

 each page) for the entry of the reader's 

 observations. 



Miss Helen Ingersoll, the author's 

 daughter, is accredited with assistance "in 

 respect to local botany." Prof. Clarence 

 M. Weed is responsible for the parts relat- 

 ing to insects, and for information in 

 regard to mammals, reptiles, batrachians 

 and fishes the author quotes from Merriam, 

 Burroughs, W. E. Cram, De Kay, C. C. 

 Abbott, John Bell (who is spoken of as 

 "Thomas Bell"), Mearns, Kirtland, Allen, 

 Hay, Goode, and others ; but for the 

 part relating to birds he gives no author- 

 ity. This is the more to be regretted, for 

 it is this portion of the book in which we 

 are here especially interested and in 

 which we find a number of records at 

 variance with previously published data. 



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