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tion of his butterfly-house, a green-house devoted to rearing plants and 

 insects together, he writes as follows;— "In my younger days I myself 

 amassed an extensive collection of butterflies and moths. . . .1 have 

 the collection still, and never look upon it without pride. Friends love 

 to gaze upon the Scarlet Tigers, Clouded Yellows and mammoth 

 Death's Heads ; white bearded fossils come down from afar and beam 

 upon it — but when all's said and done what else is it but a collection 

 of corpses? Beautiful though they may be to look upon, arranged 

 systematically with pinions outstretched upon the clean white paper — 

 how much more beautiful to gaze upon the living form flashing its 

 gorgeous wings in sunlight, throbbing with the exuberance of lifeV 

 This is a frank statement from a collector, but one which is character- 

 istic of the times ; interest is being transferred from collections to nature 

 itself. 



F. T. L. 



Birds of Labrador and of the Chicago Area.— The Birds of Labrador 

 are well presented by Dr. Charles W. Townsend and Glover Allen 

 (Proc. of the Boston Soc. of Xat. Hist., vol. 33, pp. 277-428). In the 

 introduction the authors describe first their visit to T.al)ra.l()r in the sum- 

 mer of 1900; then the topograjihy, the fauiuil an-as. paths of migra- 

 tion, and ornithological history of the region; and finally the hird and 

 egg destruction which in 1833 fllled Audulnm with "liorror and (hs- 



and the authors hope that "the wonderful nursery tor \\ai> r l)ii(is in 

 Labrador will not be entirely depopulated but that snllic ieiit jjrotcction 

 tor the breeding birds will be givt>n and that sj)ee<lily, befon; it is too 



The introduction is followed l)y an annotated list of all Labrador 

 birds, and the book concludes with a table showing the approximate 

 number of each species observed by the authors, a l)ibliography, and 

 a map. This publication (which is sold separately) will be of interest 

 to the large number of students of local birds in eastern United States, 

 for Labrador is the destination of many familiar migrants. It is 



Thr Hints nj fhr Chiraqn Ami arc similarlv ircatcl l.v FranL M. 

 Woodnitf ilJnII. (1 <.r Nnt. I /is/. S„ m C /nrrn,n AmJ . nj Sri., 221 

 pp.). ^ The ininH|,i< ii,,n runK-iin^ not«-^ ..n ilir taxoral.K' ln. ;,lii i... f.,r 



catalogue of spcci.-s 1. rings fogrtlh'r a larg.- iwidy c.f fa«'ts covering a 

 long period of observation. Sometimes, however, the list of synonyms 



