Recently published Ornithological Works. 507 
79. 'Bird-Lore.' 
[Bird-Lore. Edited by Frank M. Chapman, The Macmillan Co., 
Harrisburg, New York, and London.] 
We have before us the third volume of this American 
bi-monthly ornithological magazine for 1901, and the 
numbers up to May of the present year. Primarily ' Bird- 
Lore/ which appears to be the organ of the Audubon Society, 
appeals to American readers; but there is a great deal of 
matter which should interest a wider circle, and many of 
the numerous illustrations are of great beauty. We may 
instance those to the chapter by Mr. F. M. Chapman on a 
breeding-place of the Brown Pelican in Florida; Mr. F. A. 
Lucas's Walrus Island, in Bering Sea, with its denizens, the 
Guillemots^ Gulls, and Cormorants ; the Editor and the 
veteran Mr. Burroughs finding and photographing the nests 
of Humming-birds; and Mr. H. W. Henshaw's first im- 
pressions of Hawaiian birds. These are some of the more 
important photogravures as regards size and the general 
interest of the accompanying letterpress ; but the snap- 
shots of smaller birds from life are very effective. The 
tendency of the work is distinctly educational, and its aim 
is to foster observation, especially by means of the camera, 
instead of mere collecting. Mr. Chapman's exposition of 
the working of the electric perch, by which the bird takes its 
own portrait as soon as it alights, deserves attention, though 
not unknown to a select few of our photographers on this 
side. The annual subscription to this sympathetic work is 
only a dollar. — H. S. 
80. Boutourline un the Game-Birds of the Russian Empire. 
[Synoptical Tables of the Game-Birds of the Russian Empire. By 
S. Boutourline, Member of the Society of Naturalists, &c. Edited by 
N. Anofrief. Petersburg, 1901. 4to. 126 pp.] 
For some notes on the contents of this Russian memoir 
we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Delmar Morgan, who 
informs us that the introductory remarks treat of the 
practical and scientific importance of Ornithology, the 
necessity for accurate classification, and the want of a 
