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HUNTING ON WILDLIFE REFUGES. Hunting on portions of over 30 National 
Wildlife Refuges has been permitted recently. This is justified by the Fish 
and Wildlife Service as “part of a plan for better wildlife management of 
waterfowl populations.” It is also justified as a recognition that hunters 
by purchasing duck stamps have contributed to the purchase of wildlife 
areas and so have hunting rights in certain areas. It should be remembered 
that the present director of the Fish and Wildlife Service was politically 
appointed, and he may be expected to yield to hunting pressures. Hunting 
in any portion of a wildlife refuge tends to make adjacent portions less 
attractive to waterfowl. Furthermore, yielding a little to pressures for hunt- 
ing on a wildlife refuge makes it more difficult to resist pressures to open 
larger portions, and the area is no longer a real refuge. 
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Book Reviews 
FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF BRITAIN AND EUROPE, by Roger Tory Peter- 
son, Guy Mountfort and P. A. D. Hollom. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2 
Park St., Boston. $5.00. 
This is another of the familiar, and to the bird lover indispensable field 
guides, if one wishes to study European birds. Mr. Peterson contributed the 
illustrations and accompanying legend pages, which to us who are familiar 
with his artistry and ability to emphasize the differential points so neces- 
sary in field identification, is sufficient guarantee of excellence. Collaborat- 
ing are Guy Mountfort, Hon. Secretary of the British Ornithologists’ Union, 
primarily responsible for the descriptive text, and P. A. D. Hollom, editor 
of the Popular Handbook of British Birds, who prepared the maps and 
distribution notes. James Fisher, vice chairman of the Royal Society for the 
Protection of Birds, acted as general editor, and the introduction was written 
by Julian Huxley. 
There are 1107 illustrations, including flight and postural silhouettes and 
line drawings, and 367 maps showing summer and winter distribution. The 
descriptive text, in addition to the latest scientific classification, which in- 
cidentally includes the Jaegers and Skuas, gives the common names in 
Dutch, German, French and Swedish. There are 64 plates each of groups 
of related, similar birds. There is also a list of accidentals, a list of the 
British Ornithological Societies, and a complete index. Nothing seems to 
have been omitted. Dr. Alfred Lewy, #5 E. Washington Blvd., Chicago 
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THE MACMILLAN WILD FLOWER Book: text by Clarence J. Hylander; il- 
lustrations by Edith Farrington Johnston. The Macmillan Company, New 
York. Printed by the Great Lakes Press Corporation, Rochester, N.Y. 480 
pages. $15.00. 
There are 232 lithographed plates, many of them illustrating two plants, 
some of them three or four, nearly 400 in all. There is a brief description 
of each. By some artistic magic white flowers are made to appear white, 
even against the white page; others have a green leaf background. The 
forms and details are as perfect as anything I have ever seen, as far as 
