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In Audubon's Labrador. By Charles 

 Wendell TowNSEND, M.D. Houghton, 

 MifBin & Co., Boston and New York. 

 i2mo. xiv+3S4 pages; 64 half-tones, 

 I map. 



Dr. Townsend tells us that ever since 

 his boyhood he has longed to follow 

 Audubon's footsteps in Labrador. This 

 volume, therefore, not only marks the 

 realization of an early ambition, but it 

 serves also the dual purpose of convey- 

 ing much interesting and valuable in- 

 formation regarding the region to which it 

 relates and of being an illuminating and 

 always sympathetic commentory on the 

 explorations of the great ornithologist. 



Doubtless there is no one better qualified 

 to write a book of this nature than Dr. 

 Townsend. A boy's imagination, stirred 

 by Audubon's graphic description of his 

 voyage, was doubtless further stimulated 

 by contact with George C. Shattuck, one 

 of Audubon's young companions, after- 

 ward a well-known Boston physician 

 under whom, many years later, Dr. Town- 

 send served as house officer at the Massa- 

 chusetts General Hospital. Add to these 

 circumstances a keen interest in bird-life 

 and the strong touch which comes from 

 personal experience, and it is evident that 

 Dr. Townsend, so far as Labrador is 

 concerned, is Audubon's lineal representa- 

 tive. 



Dr. Townsend does not confine him- 

 self to birds, but writes also of plants and 

 of people; and always there is an historical 

 background in which, so comparatively 

 little has the scene changed in its major 

 features, the past is brought singularly 

 near the present. — F. M. C. 



Birds of Lewiston-Auburn [Maine] 

 AND Vicinity. By Carrie Ella Miller. 

 With an Introduction by Professor 

 J. Y. Stanton. Lewiston Journal Co., 

 Lewiston, Maine. i2mo. 80 pages; 2 

 half-tones. 



This is a thoroughly well annotated 

 list of 161 species in which the author's 



(307) 



enthusiastic love of birds finds frequent 

 expression. Her remarks, therefore, are not 

 confined to mere statements of manner of 

 occurrence with dates, etc., but show a 

 keen appreciation of the songs of birds and 

 a discriminating interest in their ways. — - 

 F. M. C. 



The Teaching of Science in the Ele- 

 mentary School. By Gilbert H. 

 Trafton, Instructor in Science at the 

 State Normal School, Mankato, Minn. 

 Houghton, MifBin & Co. i2mo. xii-(- 

 288 pages. 



Professor Trafton, drawing on his own 

 wide experience, here writes a book for 

 teachers on methods of teaching science. 

 The book has six major headings as 

 follows: I, The Pedagogy of Science 

 Instruction; II, Biological Science; III, 

 Agricultural Science; IV, Hygiene; V, 

 Physical Science; VI, Outline of Science 

 Instruction. 



There is no padding, but a wealth of 

 practical suggestion and information based 

 not on theory but on practice. We should 

 say that no teacher of elementary science 

 could fail to profit by an examination of 

 this volume. — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



The Condor. — Five general articles 

 and a number of short notes make up the 

 varied contents of the May number of 

 'The Condor.' In a brief account of 

 'The Short-eared Owl in Saskatchewan,' 

 Goelitz describes the nesting of the bird 

 on the open prairies and the finding of 

 several nests, one of which, containing nine 

 eggs, is reproduced from a photograph. 

 One of the most interesting articles in 

 Bradbury's 'Notes on the Nesting Habits 

 of the White-throated Swift in Colorado,' 

 well illustrated with five views of nesting- 

 sites and one photograph of a nest and 

 four eggs collected June 24, 1916, near 

 Hot Sulphur Springs, Colo. This paper and 

 Hanna's article on the Swift in the number 



