Publications Reviewed. 101 



Publications Revie^ved 



The Canadian Alpine Journal, Special Number, 1912. Pub- 

 lished by The Alpine Club of Canada. Price one dollar. 



This Journal takes the form of a report upon the Mammals, Rep- 

 tiles and Batrachians, Birds, and Plants of The Alpine Club Ex- 

 pedition to the Mount Robson Region. The first four pages are 

 devoted to the itinerary, a discussion of the life zones, and ac- 

 knowledgements. Then follows the annotated list of species of 

 Mammals covering about 38 pages, Reptiles and Batrachians, two 

 pages ; Birds, 28 pages ; and Plants, 21 pages. The report upon 

 the Birds is made by J. H. Riley, of the U. S. Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. Seventy-seven species are here given. The Journal con- 

 tains numerous excellent half-tones of specimens as well as scen- 

 ery, and closes with a colored topographical map of the region 

 under discussion. l. j. 



Second Report of the Meriden (N. H.) Bird Club. 1912. With 

 brief reports from other New Hampshire Clubs. 



This report contains 17 half-tone figures and two maps, one of 

 the Bird Sanctuary, known as the Allen Woodruff Smith Bird 

 Sanctuary. It is a valuable treatise on the protection and care 

 of birds, and should be in the bands of every one interested in 

 bird protection. l. j. 



The Practical Value of Birds. By Junius Henderson. Univer- 

 sity of Colorado Bulletin. Vol. XIII, No. 4. Boulder, Colo., April, 

 1913. 48 pp. 



There is condensed in these 48 pages a wealth of material ar- 

 ranged in handy form. Judge Henderson will receive the hearty 

 thanks of the large army of people who want to present facts in 

 their arguments for the conservation of our birds. l. j. 



Distribution and Migration of North American Herons and their 

 Allies. By Wells W. Cooke, Assistant, Biological Survey. 1913. 



The Flamingo and all of the Herodiones are treated in this Bul- 

 letin. The treatment of each species is accompanied with a map 

 of America, and in each case the breeding range as well as the 

 area in which the species occurs at any time is indicated. It 

 would be impossible to speak too highly of the value of such maps 

 of distribution. They show at a glance the exact status of the 

 species without wading through a thicket of verbiage with the 

 necessity of hunting up a general map in order to follow the de- 

 scription at all. L. J. 



