460 Correspondence



MRS. BRYAN’S AVIARIES AT PANAMA


Dr. William Beebe writes in the current number of the Bulletin of the

New York Zoological Society :—


“ One memorable visit was to Mrs. Bryan’s aviaries, a tangled hodge¬

podge of cages rambling in all directions about her house, but with an

amazing collection of birds of many groups in splendid condition. Mrs. Bryan

is one of those natural bom bird lovers of whom birds have no fear, and for

whom they will breed at any time. Here were Tinamous dropping their

turquoise eggs about and hatching them out at the slightest encouragement;

young, recently fledged Mot-mots, Galapagos Doves, and Callistes nesting in

any place they could find. If this wonderful aviculturist had sufficient

space and facilities there is hardly any species of bird which she could not

raise.”



“BIRD SYMPHONY”


This little volume contains a wonderful collection of the best items of

poetry and prose that have ever been written on the subject of birds. It

forms “ a gallery of word-pictures all centred on our friends the birds, on the

winged, joyous population that, through all our vicissitudes of birth and growth

and care, of hope and loss, struggle and forboding, resignation, gaiety, and

death, will be singing at our windows and flying over and about our homes,

always a little nearer than ourselves to the secret of joy and to the world

of cloud and sky It is compiled by C. C. Vyvyan (C. C. Rogers) and

published by John Murray at 65 . net.



