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the Kentish Knock Lightship, Fair Isle 

 (where an assistant was employed to 

 conduct observations throughout the 

 year), St. Kilda, the Flannen Isles, Sule 

 Sserry, west of Orkney, and the Isle 

 of Ushant, all localities selected with 

 special reference to the opportunities they 

 afford the student of migration, and 

 well selected, as the truly remarkable 

 results obtained clearly show. 



Mr. Clarke's personal experience is 

 so extended that the book which he 

 modestly calls 'Studies in Bird Migration' 

 is in truth a general treatise on the 

 subject of bird migration in Great 

 Britain; and, while acknowledging the 

 debt under which he has placed foreign 

 ornithologists particularly, we trust that 

 we do not seem ungrateful in expressing 

 a regret at the absence of a bibliography. 

 — F. M. C. 



First Report of the Meriden Bird 

 Club, 1911. 8 vo. 68 pages, 18 ills. 

 For sale by the Secretary of the Club, 

 at Meriden, N. H. Price, $1.00 



The spirit in which it is written, the 

 suggestions it contains, and the achieve- 

 ments it records make this report one of 

 the most valuable contributions to bird 

 conservation, and what we may term 

 civic ornithology, with which we are 

 familiar. 



From it one may obtain practical hints 

 on winter feeding, the control of cats, 

 red squirrels, and English Sparrows, on 

 nesting habits, bird-baths, and other 

 methods designed to increase the number 

 of birds about our homes; and, more 

 important still, from this report one may 

 learn how an entire village was awakened 

 to a realization of the worth and beauty of 

 its bird citizens, and of its duty toward 

 them. 



Given the right kind of a "General 

 Manager" to organize, inspire, and tact- 

 fully pull or push, as occasion requires, 

 and we do not see why bird clubs with 

 similar objects cannot be formed through- 

 out the land. Should this day ever 

 come, we shall have gone a long way 

 toward establishing ideal relations with 

 our feathered neighbors. — F. M. C. 



The Bird Classes of the Audubon 

 Society of the District of Colum- 

 bia; 1898-1912. Published by the 

 Society and to be obtained on applica- 

 tion to its Secretary, Miss Helen P. 

 Childs, Chevy Chase, Md. 8vo. 8 

 pages, I plate. 



The history of the Audubon Society of 

 the District of Columbia, summarized 

 in this pamphlet, is a record of definite 

 achievements. With its membership 

 focussed in a small area and with an ex- 

 ceptional number of professional ornitholo- 

 gists to call on, this Society has success- 

 fully met a situation in which most 

 Audubon Societies fail by giving its mem- 

 bers something to do. 



We have long looked forward to the 

 day when membership in an Audubon 

 Society would have other than merely 

 negative qualities, and the District of 

 Columbia Society in its talks, lectures, 

 laboratory exercises, and field meetings 

 has demonstrated what may be accom- 

 plished in making an Audubon Society 

 not merely a factor in the preservation 

 of birds, but an efficient organization for 

 the study of bird-life. — F. M. C. 



The Flight of Birds. By F. W. Head- 

 ley. With sixteen plates and many 

 text-figures. Witherby & Co., 326 High 

 Holborn, London. 191 2. i2mo. 163 

 pages. Price, 5s, net. 



Readers of Mr. Headley's 'Structure 

 and Life of Birds' will recall the large 

 share of attention given to the flight of 

 birds in that volume. The subject evi- 

 dently has special interest for him and he 

 writes as an ornithologist and physicist 

 well posted in regard to the recent great 

 advances in aeronautics. His volume 

 appeals, therefore, both to bird-men and 

 air-men. While the illustrations have 

 been selected to demonstrate certain 

 points, they are far from doing justice 

 to the camera's important contributions 

 to the ways of a bird in the air. — F. M. C. 



Cassinia; Proc. Delaware Valley Orn. 

 Club XV, 1911. Philadelphia, Pa. 

 8vo. 80 pages, 3 plates. 



Cassinia opens with a readable and 

 informing biographical sketch, by Samuel 



