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New books and other publications will be reviewed in this department. Authors wishing 

 publications reviewed should ssnd them to the Editor, who will examine them personally and 

 give them due consideration. 



"Citizen Bird" — Scences from bird life in plain english for beginners, by 

 Mable Osgood Wright and Elliott Cones, with one hundred and fifteen illustra- 

 tion by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. New York, The Macuillian company, 1897. 

 Cloth, |1.50. "Citizen Bird" will do more toward protecting our feathered 

 friends than any work that has yet appeared. It has no equal. Every home 

 should contain a copy. 



Grinnell's "Report on the Birds of the Islands of Santa Barbara, San 

 Nicolas and San Clements." A twenty-six page phamphlet, which is a report 

 of the birds recorded during about a month's exploration among the islands last 

 spring (1897). The sixty species treated, are arranged in four seperate lists — 

 the land birds observed in each of the islands and the water birds recorded 

 during the entire trip. It is replete with interesting field notes. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Birds, Vol. 2, No. 3, September, 1897. 



Pern Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 3, July, 1897. 



Le Naturaliste Canadien, Vol. 24, Nos. 8-10, Aug.-Oct., 1897. 



Museum, Vol. 3, No. 10-12, Aug.-Oct., 1297. 



Oologist, Vol. 14, Nos. 7-10, July-Oct., 1987. 



Osprey, Vol. 1, No. 12, Vol. 2, No. 1, Aug.-Sept., 1897. 



Popular Science News, Vol. 31, Nos. 8-10, Aug.-Oct., 1897. 



