Recently published Ornithological Works. 553 
1909, p. 540) we have fully explained the nature and plan 
of these “ Habitat-groups,” which have been most favourably 
reported upon by all those who have been fortunate enough 
to see them. We have now before us a volume which 
contains what may, we suppose, be called the “ evidence ” 
upon which the “ Habitat-groups ” have been formed. Mr. 
Chapman, who is by no means inclined to hide his light 
under a bushel, has already published some of his pieces of 
“ evidence ” in c The Century/ Scribner’s r Country Life/ 
and other serials, but now presents us with a connected 
account of his adventures in search of “bird-life,” which 
cannot fail to interest all bird-lovers, and specially those of 
his own country. Mr. Chapman divides his subjects accord¬ 
ing to the localities visited. After an introduction, in which 
he treats of the umbrella required to conceal the photographer 
from the ever-wary bird, he gives us chapters on the “ Bird- 
life” of the Atlantic coasts and islands, the Bahamas, 
California, and Western Canada, and of his adventures met 
with in visiting these widely different scenes. It is difficult 
to pick out the most interesting birds which he has studied, 
but the Flamingos of the Bahamas, the Water-Turkeys of 
Florida, and the Skimmers of Cobb’s Island are perhaps 
of special interest. We will ask our ornithological friends 
to read the volume for themselves, and we are sure that they 
will be pleased with it, even if they know little of American 
bird-life. It is very fully illustrated by 250 photographs, 
“taken from Nature by the author,” which do him great 
credit. 
57. Cory on the Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. 
[The Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. By Charles B. Cory. Chicago, 
U.S.A., 1909. 8vo. 764 pp.] 
Settled at Chicago, as Head of the Department of Zoology 
in the great Field Museum of Natural History, Mr. Cory has 
turned his attention to the birds of Illinois and Wisconsin, 
which have already been the subject of his study in the 
( Birds of Eastern North America.’ 
