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New Ecoks and other publications will be reviewed in this c'eraitment. Authors 

 wishing publications reviewed should sene them to the Editoi who will examine them 

 personally and give them due consideration. 



"Bird Life," a guide to the study of our common lairds, by Frank M. 

 Chapman, with seventy-five full page plates and numerous text draw- 

 ings, by Ernest Seton Thompson. New York, D. Appleton & Co. 1897. 



"Bird Life" is indeed a guide to the study of our fxmmon birds, for 

 any one who is fortunate enough to be the owner of this valuable work, 

 by Mr. Frank M. Chapman. The opening chapters are : 



I The Bird, Its place in Nature and Relation to Man. II The Living 

 Bird. Ill Colors of Birds. 17 The Migration of Birds. V The 

 Voice of Birds. VI The Nesting Season. VII How to Identify Birds, 

 and a field key to our common land birds. About two-thirds of the vol- 

 ume is taken up wdth ably written biographies of "our common birds." 

 The 75 full page plates of birds and the numerous drawings are by our 

 well known ornithologist and artist Ernest Seton Thompson. Mr. Chap- 

 man and the publishers are to be cougratulated on securing the services 

 of this most excellent artist of our feathered friends. "C. F. H." 



Gleanings from Nature. No. 1. "Sjmo Oological Abnormalities," by 

 J. Warren Jacobs, will be out in a f 3W w^eeks — not later- than Feb. loth. 

 Among the descriptions of freak sets will be found two sets from Jasper 

 County, Iowa, namely, Prairie Horned Lark and Yellow Warbler. 



"D. L. S." 



"How to know the Ducks. Geese and Swans of North America," by 

 Chas. B. Cory. Boston. Little, Brown & Co. 1891 [ 



How to know the ducks, geese and swans need not puzzle any one who 

 has a copy of this most excellent work by Charles B. Cory, all the species 

 being grouped according to size and color. The work is intended to meet 

 the wants of a large number of persons who are interested in birds and 

 would like to know their names but often find it no easy task to identify 

 them by the "bird books." It is of especial value to the sportsman. The 



"How to know the Shore Birds {LuiiiroJac) of North America," by 

 Charles B. Cory. Boston. Little, Brown & Co. 1897. 



Chas. B. Cory's new work. "How to know the Shore Birds" is as valu- 

 able for the working oruithologist as it is for the sportsman and should 

 find a place in the library beside its companion bcok, "How to know the 

 Ducks, Geese, and Swans," by the same author. Mr. Cory gives a good 



