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Catalogue of Canadian Birds, Part II. 

 Birds of Prey, Woodpeckers, Fly- 

 catchers, Crows, Jays and Black- 

 birds. By John Macoun, Naturalist to 

 the Geological Survey of Canada. Otta- 

 wa, 1903. 8vo. pages i-iv+219-413. 



It is with much pleasure that we receive the 

 second part of this useful catalogue of birds, 

 the first part of which, issued in 1900, was 

 reviewed in Bird-Lore for August of that 

 year. 



The method adopted in the preceding 

 volume is here continued and includes a 

 full treatment, with authorities for every 

 statement, of the distribution of each 

 species, notes on its breeding habits and a 

 list of the specimens representing it in the 

 museum of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



The wbrk contains not only reference to 

 previously published material, but much 

 new information obtained by Mr. Macoun 

 and his assistants on the survey, and thus 

 liecomes an authoritative as it is an invalu- 

 .able manual of Canadian ornithology. 



We observe with satisfaction a note by 

 Dr. Robert Bell, director of the survey, to 

 the effect that the third and concluding part 

 of this important work will appear this 

 autumn. — F. M. C. 



Cassinia. Proceedings of the Delaware 

 Valley Ornithological Club for 1902. 



This, the sixth report of the proceedings 

 -of the D. V. O. C, and the second issued 

 under the title 'Cassinia,' contains a bio- 

 graphical sketch of Edward Harris, by 

 George Spencer Morris, with a full-page 

 portrait of this friend of Audubon's; 

 ' Henslow's Bunting in New Jersey,' by 

 Samuel N. Rhoads ; 'The Unusual Flight 

 of White Herons in 1902,' by William B. 

 Evans; ' Notes on the Germantown Grackle 

 Roost,' by Arthur Cope Emien ; 'The 

 Heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens,' by 

 Herbert L. Coggins ; ' Report on the Spring 

 Migration of 1902,' by Witmer Stone; 

 ' Birds that Struck the City Hall Tower in 

 1902' ; ' Abstract of the Proceedings of the 

 X). V. O. C. for 1902 ' ; ' Bird Club Notes ' ; 

 ' List of Officers and Members.' 



Our Feathered Game, A Handbook of 

 THE North American Game - Birds. 

 By DwiGHT W. Huntington. Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. New York, 1903. i2mo. 

 xii-l-396 pages, 8 full-page colored plates, 

 29 full-page half-tones. 



This book is written largely from the 

 standpoint of the sportsman who knows his 

 birds chiefly during the shooting season, 

 and as such it appeals nibst strongly to 

 sportsmen. The author, however, appears 

 to be well versed in the literature of his 

 subject, and numerous references to the 

 works of others add to the value of his book. 



With the exception of several species 

 which have been greatly in demand for 

 millinery purposes, game-birds have, for 

 obvious reasons, decreased more than any 

 other American birds. Mr. Huntington 

 pays especial attention to this phase of his 

 subject, and presents many records of 

 ' bags ' of game made in the days of the 

 muzzle-load, with illuminating comments 

 on the comparative scarcity of game-birds 

 to-day. 



The book is illustrated by eight colored 

 plates from paintings by the author of 

 ' Characteristic Hunting Scenes ' and by 

 numerous photographs of mounted birds. — 

 F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



The Auk. — Among the articles of gen- 

 eral interest in the July ' Auk ' we find 

 ' Notes on the Ornithological Observations 

 of Peter Kalm,' by Spencer Trotter, who 

 pleasantly summarizes the botanist's brief 

 remarks upon the birds seen during his 

 travels in America, about 1750. A. H. 

 Clark writes on the habits of Venezuelan 

 birds, and Witmer Stone takes up ' * * * 

 Winter Crow Life in the Delaware Valley.' 

 The general reader will also find two 

 annotated lists, one on the birds of Madison 

 county. New York, by William R. Maxon, 

 and one on those of interior British Colum- 

 bia, by Allan Brooks, the latter writer illus- 

 trating his paper with a colored plate of 

 young Ducklings. The specialist will en- 



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