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and Eggs,' 'Young: How they are Fed 

 and Protected,' 'Feathers and Flight,' and 

 ' Calls and Song Notes,' may be read with 

 profit by the ornithologists of every land. 



Mr. Cherry Kearton's pictures add to our 

 appreciation of his skill and patience with 

 the camera, and further illustrate the ad- 

 vantages of photography over any other 

 known method of portraying bird -life. It 

 does not seem to us, however, that they 

 have all been reproduced with full justice 

 to the original, and we especially deplore 

 the loss of accuracy in a bird's outline 

 which often accompanies the etching or 

 cutting out of the backgrounds. — F. M. C. 



Laws Regulating the Transportation 

 AND Sale of Game. By T. S. Palmer 

 and H. W. Olds. Bulletin No. 14. 

 Division of Biological Survey; U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 Government Printing Office, 1900. 8vo, 

 pp. 89, 5 maps, 4 diagrams. 



Further evidence of the benefits to the 

 cause of bird protection which have followed 

 making the Biological Survey responsible 

 for the enforcement of the provisions of the 

 Lacey bill, are shown in the publication of 

 this pamphlet. It has been prepared with 

 the especial object of informing shippers, 

 transportation companies, and game dealers 

 of the laws regulating the transportation 

 and sale of game and, possessing the authori- 

 tativeness of a government document, it is 

 far more valuable for reference than an un- 

 official publication. — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 

 The Auk. — ' The Auk ' enters the new 

 century in much the same garb it has worn 

 during twenty-six years of the old, being 

 modeled on the same lines that have proved 

 so successful in the past. Nearly one quar- 

 ter of the 131 pages of the January number 

 are devoted to reports on bird protection 

 by Mr. Witmer Stone and Mr. William 

 Dutcher, and afford unusually instructive 

 reading. Much good will result from in- 

 telligent legislation, and Mr. Dutcher shows 

 how effectively the persecuted Gulls and 

 Terns have been protected the last summer 

 on the Atlantic coast, from Maine to Vir- 

 ginia, by securing the paid services of per- 

 sons living on or near their breeding 



grounds. The molts and plumages of 

 these birds are explained by Dr. Jonathan 

 Dwight, Jr. The opening pages are filled 

 with obituary notices of Dr. Elliott Coues 

 and Mr. George B. Sennett, from the pens 

 of Mr. D. G. Elliot and Dr. J. A. Allen, 

 respectively. One of the most remarkable 

 things about Dr. Coues was the wide reach 

 of his scientific knowledge, which made 

 him in the truest sense of the word a great 

 ornithologist. Some new birds from Panama 

 are described by Mr. Ontram Bangs and 

 others; from Mexico, by Mr. E. W. Nelson, 

 in a couple of brief papers, and a local list, 

 by Mr. James H. Flemming, on the birds 

 of Parry Sound and Muskoka, Ontario, fills 

 thirteen pages. In Mr. John H. Sage's 

 report of the Eighteenth Congress of the 

 A. O. U., we learn officially of a radical 

 change in membership that will take 

 effect at the next Congress. The species 

 "Associate Member" is to be split into 

 two, but which is the subspecies I am still 

 in doubt. Some one has facetiously dubbed 

 one the "killers," and the other the 

 "see-ers," and everybody ought now to 

 be completely satisfied at this new experi- 

 ment in trinomialism. The reviews of new 

 literature are extensive, especially one on 

 Dwight's molts of passerine species, and 

 one on Grinnell's birds of Alaska. There 

 is also a goodly array of general notes, cov- 

 ering captures and records too numerous to 

 mention. — J. D., Jr. 



Book News 



We learn from Dana Estes & Co., pub- 

 lishers of Coues' 'Key,' that the revised 

 edition of this work, the manuscript of 

 which Dr. Coues completed shortly before 

 his death, will be ready sometime during the 

 coming spring. It will be profusely illus- 

 trated, chiefly by Louis A. Fuertes, and will 

 be issued in two volumes, at the price of $10. 



The report of the A. O. U. bird protec- 

 tion committee including Mr. Dutcher's re- 

 port on the expenditure of the Thayer fund, 

 which occupies thirty-seven pages in the 

 January 'Auk,' has been issued separately 

 and may be procured from William Dutcher, 

 525 Manhattan Ave., New York city, at five 

 cents a copy, or four dollars per hundred. 



