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Booh Notices and Reviews. 
My only regret is that the book was not written several years ago, 
when it might have saved nie nianj' disappointnieuts ; ]mt liowever long one 
may have kept birds and however much experience one may have had, Mr, 
Page's book will al\va.ys be useful and one might say necessary, as well as 
extremely interesting. 
Even authors have their little weaknesses, and the author of this 
work is no exception. To Mr. Page the Grey-winged Ouzel is what an only 
child is to its parents. 
When he gets to this bird, he, to use.a vulgarism "spreads himself " 
and one wishes that he had had loom to do so more often. 
It is to Mr. Page that the honour belongs of being the lirst to bi'eed 
these birds in captivity : and his account of this interesting event is very en- 
tertainingly told. 
The following table of Contents will further indicate the compre- 
hensive character of the work, Chapter I. — The Cult of Bird-keeping ; 
II. — Aviaiies. Birdrooms and Cages ; III, — Iiisectile Mixtures, Live food. 
Sops, etc; IV. — Keeping and breeding Finches {Fr/inj/ll/ilii' and Plocc'uJn): 
V. — Thrushes (Tiinln/w) ; VI. — Babbling Thrushes, Babblers and Bulbuls ; 
VII. — Flycatchers (.Uuncn-apiild/) ; VIII. —Honey-suckers, Flowerpeckers, 
White-eyes, Creepers, Sunbirds and Sugarbirds ; IX. — Tanagers and Mana- 
kins ; X. — Wood-swallows, Starlings, Mynahs, and Troupials ; XI. — Barbets, 
Toucans and Hornbills ; XII. — Birds of iParadise, Crows, IMagpies, Jays, 
Hollers and Drongos; XIII. — Psittaci; Lorries, Parrots Macaws, Cockatoos, 
Parrakeets, Lovebirds, etc ; XIV. — Doves and Pigeons ; and XV. — The 
Etceteras. There is also a separate index for names of birds and genera and 
species. 
"Aviaries and Aviary Life " is certainly a book which every bird- 
lover and bird-keeper, and the two are the same, should have ; not simply Iq 
complete his collection of ornithological works but to have by him always, 
to be referred to often. It is quite one of the best of its kind that we have 
read for a long time. " INCA." 
The "CoNDOU," the Journal of the Cooper Ornithological Club, for 
j^jay— June, is of more than usual interest. The larger portion of the 
issue is occupied by a most valuable paper by Edward E. Warren, on 
'"Some North-Central Colorado Bird Notes," collected during an extended 
wagon trip. The article is illustrateti by a map and twelve photos by the 
Author ; the latter include Nests of Cliff Swallows ; Nest of White- 
Crowned Sparrow; Young Mountain Plover; Young Three-toed Wood- 
pecker.^ ; Western Nighthawks (3) ; etc.— all are excellent. The article is 
not only of interest to Western ornithologists, but to bird lovers and 
keepers the wide world over. The issue also contains a paper, " An After- 
noon's Field Notes," by J. Grinnell, which is also of great interest — some 
thirty species are named, and the notes, illuminating many phases of their 
life history, are also demonstrative of the thoroughness and ability of this 
well known ornithologist. Cieneral Notes, Reviews, Club Minutes, etc., 
complete a number of exceptional interest. 
