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birds and changes in nomenclature which 

 have been made since Dr. Coues' death 

 in 1899. 



It is unnecessary for us to offer general 

 comment on a work which we have before 

 characterized as, beyond comparison, "the 

 best known on general and systematic 

 ornithology ever published," and we have 

 aimed here only to note the differences 

 between the last and the preceding editions. 

 — F. M. C. 



Birds of a Maryland Farm; A Local 

 Study of Economic Ornithology. By 

 Sylvester D. Judd, Ph.D. Bull. No. 

 17, Div. Biological Survey, U. S. Dep't 

 of Agriculture, Washington, 1902. 116 

 pages, 17 plates, 41 text-cuts. 



Dr. Judd's study of the food of birds on 

 a farm of 230 acres, of which 150 were 

 under cultivation, extended over a period of 

 seven years and is of unusual value, not 

 alone because of the results obtained, but 

 also as an admirable object-lesson in the 

 methods of investigation employed by the 

 modern economic ornithologist. It has, 

 too, much ecologic interest purely as a con- 

 tribution to our knowledge of the economic 

 relations of birds to a definite environment- 

 It may well stand as a model for work of 

 this kind, and an examination of it will sug- 

 gest numerous lines of observation to stu- 

 dents of the food of birds. Particularly, we 

 would commend Dr. Judd's fairness of 

 mind. He does not appear as a special 

 pleader for this bird or that, but evidently 

 presents his conclusions without attempting 

 to defend one bird and condemn another, 

 influenced by a preconceived fondness or 

 prejudice for the species in question. — 

 F. M. C. 



Two Little Savages: Being the Adven- 

 tures OF Two Boys Who Lived as 

 Indians and What They Learned. 

 With over 300 drawings. By Ernest 

 Thompson Seton. 1903. Doubleday, 

 Page & Co. New York. lamo. 552 

 pages. 



This is not a 'bird book,' although it 

 has much in it about birds, but it teaches 

 the lesson of the beauty of life out-of-doors, 

 of which the birds, after all, are only a 

 part, even if a very important one; and it is, 

 therefore, a book which should be considered 



by every one who would lead the world to 

 that well of pure delight, of which the au- 

 thor writes so briefly but so eloquently in 

 his two-line preface. 



Into this attractive volume Mr. Seton has 

 crowded the results of his years of experience 

 in the woods. It is, we believe, no secret 

 that the story is largely autobiographical, 

 and in reading it one realizes how well its 

 writer's training has fitted him for the work 

 he has made his own. — F. M. C. 



Catalogue of Canadian Birds. Part II. 

 Birds of Prey, Woodpeckers, Flycatchers, 

 Crows, Jays and Blackbirds. By John 

 Macoun, M.A., F.R.S.C. Geological 

 Survey of Canada. Ottawa, 1903. 8vo. 

 Pages i-iv + 219-413. 



The Birds of Ohio. By Lynds Jones, 

 M.Sc. (Oberlin College). Special Paper, 

 No. 6. Ohio State Academy of Science. 

 1903. 8vo. 241 pages, i map. 



The Birds of Wisconsin. By L. Kum- 

 lien and N. Hollister. Bull. Wis. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. II (new series), 

 Nos. I, 2 and 3. Published with the Co- 

 operation of the Milwaukee Public Mu- 

 seum. 1903. 8vo. 143 pages, 8 half- 

 tone plates. 



The Birds of Fergus County, Montana. 

 By P. M. SiLLOWAY. Bull. No. i, Fer- 

 gus County Free High School, Lewis- 

 town, Mont. 1903. 8vo. 77 pages, 17 

 half-tone plates. 



Here are four noteworthy contributions to 

 the literature of faunal ornithology. The 

 scope of Mr. Macoun's work has been out- 

 lined in our notice of Part I (BiRD- 

 LORE, II, 125 ) , and it is necessary only to say 

 here that the high standard of the first vol- 

 ume has been maintained. This important 

 publication will be concluded with Part 

 III, which is promised for the coming fall. 

 Professor Jones has been so long in close 

 touch with the birds and bird students of 

 Ohio, and is so directly responsible for much 

 of the interest in ornithology in that state, 

 that assuredly no one is better fitted than he 

 to write on the status of Ohio birds. It is, 

 consequently, almost needless to say that his 

 fully annotated list is thoroughly satisfac- 

 tory and workmanlike. It enumerates 322 

 species and subspecies as "actually recorded 

 in the state." 



