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mots, Kittewakes and Fulmars on the face of a precipitous rock,

looking almost as if one of the birds themselves, taking the camera,

had flown out over the sea, made the exposure, and returned it

safely into the owner’s hands !


There are successful photos, of Herons and their nests, by

Mr. Alfred Taylor, and a splendid one of a fox ; “ Madra Ruad,”

(the Red Dog) as he is styled in Ould Ireland, by Mr. Douglas

English.


We are more concerned with the birds, as aviculturists, but

nevertheless no one who loves wild life, can fail to be interested in

the photographs of fish, taken under water in their native ponds and

streams.


For adults who know their subjects, this publication cannot

but be interesting, for the rising generation it will be a means of

education, an encouragement to arm themselves with the camera

rather than the gun, to study wild life, sooner than destroy it !


H. D. A.



“ OUR VANISHING WILD LIFE.” *


A book which all book-lovers should read, albeit pathetic,

sad, and one might say heart-rending.


It is described as a practical treatise on the extermination and

preservation of wild life, a protest against slaughter, a call to arms

in defence of wildlife, which will be heartily welcomed by the friends

of the wild birds and mammals throughout the world.


Dealing very largely with facts about the destruction of wdld

creatures in North America; for Mr. Hornaday is an American and

the Director of the New York Zoological Park ; it nevertheless is

world-wide in its statistics and interest. In a ‘foreword,’ Professor

Henry Fairfield Osborn, the President of the New York Zoological

Society, writes in clear and decisive warning. He speaks of the

forceful pages of this book as reminding him of the sounding of the

great bells in the watch-towers of the cities of the Middle Ages,

which called to arms the citizens to protect their homes, their



* Our Vanishing Wild Life, by WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, Director of the New

York Zoological Park, etc. With maps and illustrations.


New York : CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 1913.



