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Coast Marshes of New Jersey,’ by I. 
Norris DeHaven; ‘Cruising Through the 
New Jersey Pine Barrens,’ by J. Fletcher 
Streets; “Nesting of the Broad-winged 
Hawk and Goshawk in Pennsylvania,’ 
by Robert P. Sharples; ‘Breeding Birds of 
Passaic and Sussex Counties, N. J.,’ by 
William L. Baily; ‘Report on Spring 
Migration of 1909, by Witmer Stone, with 
an abstract of the Proceedings of the 
sixteen meetings held during the year, 
at which the average attendance was 
nineteen.—F. M. C. 
Nores on NEw ENGLAND Birps. By 
Henry D. THoREAv. Arranged and 
edited by Francis H. Allen. With pho- 
tographs of Birds in Nature. Houghton, 
Mifflin Co. 1910. 12mo., pages ix+ 
452, 14 half-tones, 1 map. Ptice, $1.75, 
net. 
It was a capital idea of Mr. Allen’s to 
bring together the notes on birds scattered 
through the fourteen volumes of Thoreau’s 
published ‘Journal,’ and he has carried 
it out in admirable fashion, placing the 
notes under the species to which they 
belong, arranging these in the sequence of 
the A. O. U. ‘Check-List,’ and adding 
comment when desirable. There is, also, 
an index to the bird matter in Thoreau’s 
previously published works, ‘The Week,’ 
‘Walden,’ etc. For the first time, therefore, 
Thoreau’s actual contributions to orni- 
thology are presented in a form which 
not only renders reference easy but places 
them within reach of many to whom the 
‘Journals’ are not available. 
Mr. Allen’s ‘Preface’ contains what 
seems to us to be so just an estimate of 
Thoreau as an ornithologist that we are 
tempted to quote from it, and refrain only 
because it should be read in its entirety.— 
HEME: 
WILDERNESS PETS aT Camp BucKSHAW. 
By Epwarp Breck. Houghton, Mifflin 
& Co. 239 pages, 16 half-tones. Price, 
$2.50, net. 
Young bears, moose, squirrels, Gulls, 
Ravens and Loons, Uncle Ned Buck- 
shaw and some boys and girls, are the 
principal actors in these stories. The 
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scene is laid out-of-doors, and the various 
animals were given freedom, which made 
them pets in the best sense of the word, 
permitting the establishment of relations 
which close captivity in cages forbids. 
The various pets soon accepted the hospi- 
tality of their human friends, and their 
companionship evidently added not a little 
to the pleasure and interest of life at Camp: 
Buckshaw; but the tragic ends which a 
number of them encountered emphasizes 
the responsibility one assumes in taking 
an animal from the care of its parents and 
from its own environment.—F. M. C. 
The Ornithological Magazines 
THE AuK.—Among the pages of the 
April ‘Auk’ is an obituary notice of Dr. 
Richard Bowdler Sharpe, of the British 
Museum, which marks the passing on 
Christmas Day, 1909, of a great ornitholo- 
gist and one of world-wide reputation. 
His ‘Catalogue of Birds of the British 
Museum’ supplemented by his ‘Hiand-List’” 
is the only complete list of the birds of the 
world, and is bound to be the standard for 
years to come wherever the English lan- 
guage is spoken. No finer monument to 
his memory can be imagined. Dr. Allen’s 
notice is accompanied by a portrait re- 
produced from the magazine ‘British 
Birds.’ There is also a belated obituary 
and portrait of Dr. J. C. Merrill, U.S. A., 
who died in 1902, written by Mr. Wm. 
Brewster, and still another obituary and 
portrait of Mr. Chas. Aldrich, written by 
Mr. Ruthven Deane. 
An article deserving of special mention 
is one by Mr. Leon J. Cole on ‘The Tag- 
ging of Wild Birds: Report of progress in 
1909.’ The fastening of metal bands to birds, 
for the purpose of learning something of 
their migratory movements, is not a new 
idea, but Mr. Cole needs the co6peration 
of all persons interested in birds if definite 
results are to be obtained. He tells what 
progress has been made in ‘banding’ birds 
and describes the method. “The Court- 
ships of Golden-eye and Eider Ducks,’ by 
Dr. Charles W. Townsend, is a pleasing 
contribution to the life histories of these 
