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New Ecoks and ether pubjicalicns will "be reviewed in this dcrartment. Authors 
wishing publications reviewed should sene them to the Editor who will examine them 
personally and give them due consideration. 
“Bird Life,” a guide to the study of onr common birds, by Frank M. 
Chapman, with seventy-five full page plates and numerous text draw¬ 
ings, by Ernest Setoii Thompson. New York, D. Appleton & Co. 1897. 
“Bird Life” is indeed a guide to llie study of our ccinmon birds, for 
any one who is fortunate enough to be the owner of this valuable work, 
by IVlr. Frank M. Chapman. The opening chapters are : 
I The Bird, Its place in Nature and Relation to Man. II The Living 
Bird. Ill Colors of Birds. lY The Migration of Birds. V The 
Voice of Birds. VI The Nesting Season. VII How to Identify Birds, 
and a field key to our common land birds. About twm-thirds of the vol¬ 
ume is taken up with ably written biographies of “our common birds.” 
The 75 full page plates of birds and the numerous drawings are by our 
well known ornithologist and artist Ernest Seton Thompson. Mr. Chap¬ 
man and the publishers are to be congratulated on securing the services 
of this most excellent artist of our feathered friends. “C. F. H.” 
Gleanings from Nature. No. 1. “Some Oologioal Abnormalities,” by 
J. Warren Jacobs, will be out in a few weeks—not later than Feb. IStli. 
Among the descriptions of freak sets will be found twm sets from Jasper 
County, Iowa, namely. Prairie Horned Lark and Yellow Warbler. 
“D. L. S.” 
“How to know the Lucks. Geese and Swans of North America,” by 
Chas. B. Cory. Boston. Little, Brown & Co. 189i. 
How to know the ducks, geese and swans need not puzzle any one who 
has a copy of this most excellent w^ork by Charles B. Cory, all the species 
being grouped according to size and color. The work is intended to meet 
the wants of a large number of persons who are interested in birds and 
wmuld like to know their names but often find it no easy task to identify 
them by the “bird books.” It is of especial value to the sportsman. The 
“How to know the Shore Birds (Limicolae) of North America,” by 
Charles B. Cory. Boston. Little, Brown & Co. 1897. 
Chas. B. Cory’s new work. “How to know the Shore Birds” is as valu¬ 
able for the working ornithologist as it is for the sportsman and should 
find a place in the library beside its companion book, “How to know the 
Ducks, Geese, and Swans,” by the same author. Mr. Cory gives a good 
