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BOOKS RECEIVED 



Bulletin No. 10, The New Vork State 

 College of Forestry. The Palisades In- 

 terstate Park: A Study in Recreation- 

 al Forestry, by P. M. Silloway. 



Guide to the Summer Birds of the 

 Bear Mountain and Harriman Park 

 Sections of the Palisades Interestate 

 Park, by P. M. Silloway. 



The Relation of Forest Animals to 

 The Welfare of New York State, by 

 Dr. Charles C. Adams. 



The New York State Wild Life Me- 

 morial to Theodore Roosevelt, by 

 Dr. Charles C. Adams. 



The Roosevelt Wild Life State Me- 

 morial. By Dr. Charles C. Adams. 



Delights of The Wild Forest Trail. 

 By Dr. Charles C. Adams. 



These publications are a part of 

 those gotten out by the State of New 

 York and Roosevelt Memorial Associa- 

 tions and are descriptive, of the 

 Fauna and Flora, of that territory. The 

 na'mes of the authors are sufficient 

 guarantee of the readability and ac- 

 tivities of the contents. Dr. Adams 

 being a well known naturalist and 

 writings of our friend Silloway on 

 birds have been standard for lo these 

 many years. 



R. M. Barnes. 



"Report of the Chief Game Guardian, 



Province of Saskatchewan, Canada, 



for 1921" 



It has been a pleasure to examine 

 closely this report of 53 clearly printed 

 pages, which discloses 102 prosecu- 

 tions for violating the Game Law, two 

 of which were for killing Swan, where 

 the parties were fined $20.00 instead 

 of $200.00. 



It also discloses the dissimination 

 of 49,200 pieces of printed matter rela- 

 tive to game, birds, laws, etc., and re- 

 cites the seizure of 203 illegally killed 

 birds and fur beating animals, besides 

 over 6,000 pounds of moose meat. It 



tells of lectures attended by almost 

 12,000 school children, besides giving 

 a list of specimens secured by the 

 scientists of the United States Biologi- 

 cal Survey; reviews the legislation on 

 subject and makes recommendations 

 with reference thereto, discusses the 

 duck sickness with which the wild 

 fowl of Canada were afflicted and then 

 refers generally the status of the geese, 

 swans, cranes, big gatne and fur bear- 

 ing animals, besides setting forth the 

 reports of the several assistant game 

 guardians, as well as giving a tabu- 

 lated resume of the 666,000 fur bear- 

 ing animals taken in that yeaT. This 

 report is a credit to the compiler, and 

 the Department issuing it. — R. M. B. 



"Journal of the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Oology, Vol. II, 1-2, 1921" 



This issue is a credit to W. Leon 

 Dawson, the editor. It is well illus- 

 trated and contains much information 

 of interest to the Oologist. 



The first article being by the edi- 

 tor, "A candid examination of the right 

 to collect bird eggs," leaves little to 

 be said further on that subject. It is 

 fair, exhaustive, logical and thorough. 

 This is followed by other articles, and 

 communications on the same subject; 

 all of which is brought about largely 

 by the publication in the English 

 Press of a silly fulmination against 

 the Museum of Comparative Oology, 

 entitled "Another New Threat to Bird 

 Life,' without any signature, perhaps 

 because no reputable scientist or man 

 of standing would sign such a thing; 

 also because of another similar article 

 appearing in the illustrated London 

 News, over the signature of W. P. 

 Pycroft, of the British Museum. 



If the readers of The Oologist could 

 walk with the editor into the library 

 of our new museum here and take 

 from the shelves the Catalogue of 

 Bird Eggs, in the British Museum, pub- 

 lished a number of years ago, being 



