No. 429. NOTES AND LITERATURE. 
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Upland Game Birds.'— This volume, by Edwyn Sandys and T. S. 
Van Dyke, is the second in the American Sportsman's Library 
Series, edited by Caspar Whitney, and, like the first, Zhe Deer 
Family, by Roosevelt and others, shows the editor's good judgment 
in the selection of his authors for this noteworthy series of books. 
The scope of the work includes not only the turkey, grouse, partridges, 
and mourning dove, as would be expected, but also the cranes, 
woodcock, the upland and golden plovers, and introduced “foreign 
game," but not the snipe. Although written ostensibly for sportsmen 
by sportsmen, it has a much broader interest. Its attractive style, 
varied incident, and personal reminiscences must render it attract- 
ive to the general reader, and especially to those interested in the 
wild things of nature. The successful sportsman is necessarily a 
keen observer, and long experience in his craft renders him familiar 
with the ranges and life histories of his favorite objects of pursuit ; 
but few have the literary gift to impart attractively to others the fund 
of information gained through such varied and extensive opportuni- 
ties of observation. The authors of the present volume are well 
equipped for their task, as regards both experience and literary 
ability. 
Mr. Van Dyke's portion of the work (pp. 377—41 7) relates exclu- 
sively to * The Quail and Grouse of the Pacific Coast," with which 
he shows himself especially familiar. The rest of the field (pp. 1-376) 
is covered by Mr. Sandys, whose several chapters contain much that 
is detailed and explicit regarding the habits and peculiarities of the 
game birds he treats, and in many ways admirably supplement the 
much that has been written by ornithologists. The spirit of the natu- 
ralist pervades the pages of Upland Game Birds, although they are 
amply enlivened by personal reminiscences that should prove espe- 
cially attractive to the sportsmen ; and the authors also neglect no 
opportunity to castigate the “ game hog," and to urge more effective 
protection for game birds. Five of the nine very effective and 
pleasing illustrations are by Mr. L. A. Fuertes. TAA 
Nestlings of Forest and Marsh,? by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock, 
contains accounts of the home life of about twenty birds, most of 
! Sandys, Edwyn, and Van Dyke, T. S. Upland Game Birds. New York, 
The Macmillan Company, 1902. 8vo, ix + 429 pp., frontispiece and 8 full-page 
plates. American Sportsman’s Library Series, edited by Caspar Whitney. 
2 Wheelock, Irene Grosvenor. Nestlings of Forest and Marsh. Chicago, 
CA C. McClurg & Co., 1902. 8vo, xvi + 257 pp., 22 pls., text-figs. 
