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Book Reviews 
THOSE OF THE FOREST is the title of a new nature book acclaimed by scien- 
tists as well as nature lovers in general, as both unique and a beautiful 
piece of writing. Wallace Byron Grange, the author, is a biologist with wide 
experience in wildlife research but he writes with such obvious love for all 
the forest creatures, (with a snowshoe rabbit as the leading character) 
that the reader is scarcely aware that he is adding to his store of scientific 
knowledge. 
This is particularly true in regard to ecology, a subject that is too often 
ignored by the amateur nature student or dismissed as “too scientific.” In 
beautiful prose, almost poetic at times, Mr. Grange continually reminds us 
of the interdependence of all forms of life, ecology in fresh garments that 
even the most prejudiced must applaud. 
The charming illustrations by a fine naturalist, Olaus J. Murie, are 
another good reason for adding this book to your hbrary. The publisher is 
the Flambeau Publishing Company of Babcock, Wisconsin. The price is 
$4.75. Members of the Society who wish to purchase this book may do so 
by writing to Mr. Raymond Mostek. 
Harry R. Smith, 913 Michigan Ave., Evanston, Ill. 
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A GUIDE TO BIRD FINDING WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, by Olin Sewall Pettin- 
gill, Jr.; Oxford University Press, 114 Fifth Ave., New York; 709 pages, 
$6.00. This is a companion volume to “A Guide to Bird Finding East of the 
Mississippi” by the same author. 
Since this book covers a large territory, much of the data is furnished by 
others. The chapter on California is credited to Charles G. Sibley and 
Howard L. Cogswell, and credit is given throughout to many contributors 
for local information. 
A number of the localities described have been visited by this reviewer 
at one time or another over the years, usually on vacation trips, and it was 
a pleasure to recall the favored areas. Des Moines, Iowa is a fond school- 
boy recollection, but the old remembered spots, such as Walnut, Four Mile 
and Beaver Creeks, and Becker’s pasture are not mentioned, having been 
taken over by city growth. However new and, I hope, better areas are de- 
scribed. When in Los Angeles some years ago, I was directed by a member 
of the museum staff to the cliffs along the Santa Clara river, near Fillmore, 
where we saw condors, which bred there; also a prairie falcon. No mention 
is made of this. I hope the birds may still be there. This also applies to 
Laguna Beach, where a few years ago I saw innumerable shore b‘rds: 
long-billed curlew, godwits, black-necked stilts, rails and innumerable sand- 
pipers of several species. Perhaps too many humans have crowded them 
out. Tucson, Arizona, where this writer spent three weeks on a collecting 
trip for the Field Museum (now Chicago Natural History Museum), is 
well described. At Wichita Mountains Wild Life Refuge, both the bald and 
