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The course, which consists of twenty lectures and daily excur- 
sions for field identification and study, is in charge of Mrs. Alice 
Hall Walter, who is well known to the bird students of this coun- 
try. ‘She is the efficient editor of the Audubon Societies School 
Department of Birp-LoRE, but perhaps she is best known as the 
co-author of ‘Wild Birds in City Parks,” a very useful little 
book which has gone through several editions. In addition to the 
regular course, special problems for individual study, relating to 
the food and habits of birds, are given. During the session a 
beginner can get an introduction into ornithology, and can become 
more or less familiar with some sixty species of nesting birds. 
The subjects of the lectures given are as follows: (1) Nesting 
Birds of Cold Spring Harbor; (2) *Skeleton; (3) Study of a Bird 
Family—Warblers (4) *Anatomy; (5) Study of a Bird Family— 
Sparrows; (6) *Feathers and Molt; (7) Other Passeriform Fam- 
ilies; (8) Water and Shore Birds; (9) *The History of Bird 
Classification; (10) The Facts of Migration; (11) *Theories of 
Migration; (12) The Ancestry of Birds; (18) Distribution; (14) 
Distribution in America; (15) *The Bird’s Place in Nature; (16) 
*The Hconomic Value of Birds; (17) HWnemies and Protection of 
Birds; (18) Methods of Study in Schools; (19) * General Meth- 
ods; (20) Literature. The lectures marked with an asterisk are 
given by Dr. H. E. Walter, Professor of Zoology in Brown Uni- 
versity. 
The course will be given again this summer beginning July 5th. 
Excursions to the American Museum of Natural History and to 
Bronx Park Zoological Garden will be arranged if desired. 
G Ch in, 
Publications Reviewed 
The Home-Life of a Golden Eagle, Photographed and Described 
by H. B. Macpherson, with thirty-two mounted plates. Witherby 
& Co., London. Second revised edition. 
In this brochure of forty-five pages the author has told in a 
simple manner of the difficulties attending a study of the home 
life of this “Wing of Birds.” Only one whose heart was in the 
work could brave the difficulties and endure the almost impossible 
weather conditions which he endured. We wonder at his suc- 
cess in keeping his plates dry. The mounted photographs accom- 
panying the descriptive matter make a collection of unique and 
enduring yalue, illustrating, as they do, nearly every phase of 
the home life of young and parents. Mr. Macpherson must find 
