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Publications Received 
CHARACTERS OF AGE, SEX, AND SEXUAL MATURITY IN CANADA 
GEESE, by Harold C. Hanson. “Biological Notes No, 49” of the Illinois 
Natural History Survey Division, Urbana, Illinois, Nov. 1962. 16 pp., 
84% x 11, illustrated with 34 halftones. Single copies available free of 
charge upon request from the Survey. 
A definitive study of the methods for aging and sexing geese in winter, 
effectively explained by means of detailed photographs and a concise 
summary of procedures. Provides a valuable guide for the game technician 
and field biologist. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL TALL TIMBERS FIRE 
ECOLOGY CONFERENCE. Roy Komarek, editor and curator. Pub- 
lished by Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, Florida, 1962. 
186 pp., with eight halftones and several line drawings. Available from 
the Tall Timbers Research Station. 
A report of the discussions and papers presented at the conference on 
March 1-2, 1962, at Tallahassee. Edwin V. Komarek, Sr., served as chair- 
man, with Herbert L. Stoddard, Sr., as research associate. Some 14 pre- 
sentations are covered, giving the experience of eleven authorities on the 
controlled use of fire in the vegetation and game management of pine 
plantations and other ecological situations in the deep Southeast. Your 
reviewer, like most outdoorsmen, finds the thought of deliberate setting 
of brush fires repugnant. But after reviewing these papers, we will admit 
that fire management must be regarded as much better than poisonous 
chemical management in controlling unwanted brush. 
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BOOK REVIEWS — Continued 
DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIOR IN PRECOCIAL BIRDS, by Margaret 
Morse Nice. Transactions of the Linnaean Society, Volume VIII, July, 
1962. Available from the Secretary of the Linnaean Society of New York, 
c/o The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 
79th Street, New York 24, N. Y. xii plus 211 pages. With two indices, 
bibliography, and 19 black-and-white illustrations by the author. $4.00. 
While a large portion of Mrs. Nice’s latest book is devoted to her 
detailed observations of the young of many species of precocial birds — 
principally waterfowl and shorebirds — her major effort is based on the 
striking analogies between the behavior development of precocial and 
altricial birds and between all birds and mammals. In drawing these 
analogies, she provides fresh insight into the many similarities between 
all animal types in the development of behavior from birth or hatching 
