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The Birds of Ohio. A complete scientific 

 and popular description of the 320 species 

 of birds found in the state, by William 

 Leon Dawson, A.M., B.D., with intro- 

 duction and Analytical Keys, by Lynds 

 Jones, M.Sc. Illustrated by 80 plates 

 in coIor-photo_s;raphy and more than 200 

 original half-tones. Sold only by sub- 

 scription. Columbus. The- Wheaton 

 Publishing Co. 1903. 4to. xlv+671 

 pages. 



This volume should exert a marked and 

 far-reaching influence, not only on the study 

 of birds in Ohio, but on the general attitude 

 of the people of the state toward its feath- 

 ered inhabitants. The book's real worth 

 will commend it to the student, its beauty 

 will claim the admiration of the bibliophile, 

 and its size alone will command the atten- 

 tion of that not small portion of the com- 

 munity whose measure of values is one of 

 dimensions. 



The present, however, is a case of quality 

 as well as quantity. We are given keys to 

 orders, families and species; detailed de- 

 scriptions of plumage, with a special para- 

 graph for "Recognition Marks," descrip- 

 tions also of nests and eggs, and a statement 

 of the "general" as well as Ohio range of 

 every species. Then follows biographical 

 matter, with very frequently a photograph 

 from nature of the bird or its nest, or its 

 characteristic haunts. Lack of space for- 

 bids detailed criticism, but we may say in 

 brief that the authors have given us the 

 most attractive and valuable work on the 

 ornithology of a single state which has yet 

 appeared. — F. M. C. 



With the Birds in Maine. By Olive 

 Thorne Miller. Boston and New York : 

 Houghton, Mifflin and Company. i6mo. 

 ix + 300 pages. 



We are very glad to welcome this new 

 volume of bird studies by Mrs. Miller. 

 There are few writers who have succeeded 

 so well in expressing the potentialities of 

 bird companionship; who so clearly voice 

 the pleasures of making friends with and 

 of the birds. 



Some fifty species of birds receive greater 

 or less attention in this book, most of the 

 studies being made in Maine. — F. M. C. 



Cassinia: Proceedings ok the Delaware 

 Valley Ornithological Club, V'II, 

 1903. 8vo. 88 pages. 



The proceedings of this active organiza- 

 tion always contain much matter of general 

 ornithologic interest. In the present num- 

 ber, for example, the papers by Witmer 

 Stone or "John Kirk Townsend," by S. N. 

 Rhoads on the disappearance of the Dick- 

 cissel from the Atlantic slope, by H. L. 

 Coggins on the travels and flight lines of 

 Crows in southeastern Pennsylvania and 

 the adjoining portions of New Jersey, and 

 by W. L. Baily on a night flight of birds 

 at Mt. Pocono, are not only unusually 

 readable but exceptionally valuable. There 

 are also contributions by Spencer Trotter, 

 ' The Red-headed Woodpecker as a Penn- 

 sylvania and New Jersey Bird,' J. A. G. 

 Rehn, ' Notes on the Summer Birds of Le- 

 high Gap, Pennsylvania," and H. W. Fow- 

 ler, 'Water Birds of the Middle Delaware 

 Valley. ' Mr. Stone presents a ' Report on the 

 Spring Migration of 1903,' based on obser- 

 vation by numerous club members and others 

 living near Philadelphia, and there is an 

 ' Abstract ' of the proceedings of the club for 

 1903. It appears that the average attend- 

 ance of members for this period was twenty. 

 Is there any other local ornithological club 

 in the country with so good a record? If 

 not, vvhy not? — F. M. C. 



Birds of California : An introduction to 

 more than three hundred common birds 

 of the state and adjacent islands. By 

 Irene Grosvenor Wheelock. With 

 ten full-page plates and seventy-eight 

 drawings in the text by Bruce Horsfall. 

 Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. 1904. 

 i2mo. xxviii -(- 578 pages. 



This book is a noteworthy contribution 

 to the literature of ornithological biography. 

 The author states that "field notes begun in 

 1894 . . . form the basis of the following 

 pages" and give a list of twenty localities 



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