Book News and Reviews 
range, should either use a gun or omit the 
record. 
The nesting of ‘The Black-throated 
Green Warbler’ is pleasantly described 
by Cordelia J. Stanwood, and excellent 
photographs of the nest are shown—mis- 
placed in binding—at page 304. We note 
that ‘Henlow’s Sparrow as an Ohio Bird,’ 
by W. F. Henninger, is accompanied by a 
photograph of a doubtfully ‘authentic’ 
nest, and it smacks umnpleasantly of 
modern commercialism to read that 
‘republication in any other work will be 
strictly dealt with according to law.’ Is 
the independent spirit of scientific 
ornithology so dead that ‘The Auk’ meekly 
accepts and publishes such stuff. The 
reviewer may also be pardoned for express- 
ing his belief that the ‘Resurrection of the 
Red-legged Black Duck,’ by William 
Brewster, while amusingly written, fails 
to establish any new facts, and we have 
already had the old ones before us for a 
long time. 
General notes and reviews are numerous 
and instructive. Some of us will be sur- 
prised to learn of the abundance of the 
Blue Goose (Chen cerulescens) in Lou- 
isiana, as recorded by W. L. McAtee, who 
saw them in thousands. 
In the October number of The Auk we 
can, figuratively speaking, put on our hats 
and go out into the open air to study birds 
at close range. We may go at daylight, 
with Mrs. F. M. Bailey, to arid New 
Mexico, and enjoy to the full the “Wild 
Life of an Alkaline Lake,’ without quaking 
with cold in the blind of boughs, while 
hordes of water-fowl sweep through the 
air or splash about in the water; or we may 
watch, in the deep woods, with Mr. N. 
McClintock, the home life of the family 
of birds of which he made ‘A Hermit 
Thrush Study,’ and see the youngsters 
grow apace; or, with Miss C. J. Stanwood, 
we may examine, from day to day, the 
occupants of ‘A Series of Nests of the Mag- 
nolia Warbler’; or, in the winter months, 
we may prefer to look through our glasses, 
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with Mrs. H. W. Wright, upon ‘Some Rare 
Wild Ducks Wintering at Boston, Mass., 
t909-1910.” All of these articles show 
careful observation, and supply much 
information concerning the life-histories 
of numerous species; and still another bit 
is furnished by Miss J. W. Sherman, who 
tells of nests and young of ‘The Brewster’s 
Warbler in Massachusetts.’ 
It is a pity to be obliged to pass over 
these delightful papers with such brief 
mention, for they show a rare blending of 
popular and scientific ornithology. Many 
readers may not know that the writer of 
the article on the Magnolia Warbler lives 
in Maine; there is no other clue given as 
to where the nests were found. 
‘Some Early Records of the Passenger 
Pigeon’ is the title of a paper by Mr. A. H. 
Wright, who modestly states that they 
were “gathered as a by-product.”’ We 
wish they had been quoted more often 
from original editions. Mr. A. H. Norton 
briefly records ‘The Little Gull (Larus 
minutus Pall.) in Maine, with Remarks on 
its Distribution and its Occurrence in 
America.’ This straggler from the Old 
World has been captured five times in the 
New. Mr. S. P. Fay writes on ‘The 
Canvasback in Massachusetts,’ where he 
thinks it is increasing in numbers; and 
Mr. A. H. Howell contributes ‘Notes on 
the Birds of the Sunken Lands of South- 
eastern Missouri.’ 
No less than ten corrections of records 
are made in the ‘General Notes’ depart- 
ment. “‘A little knowledge is a dangerous 
thing,” especially when we use opera- 
glasses. Among the reviews is one of the 
new A. O. U. Check-List of North 
American birds, the first complete enumer- 
ation since 1895, and the list is therefore a 
noteworthy landmark of faunal progress. 
There are also obituary notices of H. H. 
Giglioli and of W. E. D. Scott, the former, 
one of Italy’s prominent zo6logists, the 
latter better known to most of us for his 
field work in many parts of our country. 
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