60 LH EA USD U BON] BiG Ls Leia, 
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY 
AREA WORKSHOPS: A 
GUIDE TO PLANNING 
AND CONDUCTING 
Nat'l Education Association, 1972 
50 pp, $2.25 
This new guidebook was produced 
under joint sponsorship of the NEA 
and the National Park Service. It 
provides teachers and conserva- 
tionists with instructions on how 
to conduct outside-classroom en- 
vironmental workshops. Nothing 
appears to be overlooked, from 
directions on registration of par- 
ticipants to sleeping rooms, activi- 
ties, refreshments and evaluations. 
Suggestions are given as to how to 
choose a good site, selecting par- 
ticipants and brainstorming ses- 
sions. Useful materials from other 
organizations are also listed. 
—Raymond Mostek 
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA 
by Austin L. Rand 
Doubleday and Co., 1971 
256 pp., $9.95 
Rand’s volume is one of six books 
found in the “Animal Life of 
North America Series.” Others are 
on Fishes, Insects, Invertebrates, 
Mammals, Reptiles and Amphib- 
ians. All are useful and interesting 
reference books, profusely illus- 
trated and done by the Chanticleer 
Press. 
What Rand says in his preface is 
worth quoting: “When as a youth 
in Nova Scotia I became aware of 
birds, the local ‘birdman’ impressed 
on me the importance of learning 
first hand what leach bird did and 
how and where it lived, as well as 
what it looked like.” Later, on 
assignment in Madagascar, an old 
Africa-hand advised him that he 
should not try to record what birds 
do every hour. “Rather, I should 
observe them day after day until 
finally I could summarize in a para- 
graph the normal behavior of a 
species, its way of life in its usual 
haunts, and something of its tem- 
perament.” This advice has served 
him well. 
After a long service at the Field 
Museum of Natural History in 
Chicago, Dr. Rand recently retired 
as Chief Curator of Zoology. He 
has also been associated with mus- 
eums in Canada and New York. He 
is the author of several books, and 
has made ornithological trips to El 
Salvador, the Philippines, and New 
Guinea, and, of course, the U.S.A. 
It is these personal observations 
that titillate the reader. For exam- 
ple, in writing about the long-time 
symbol of the Illinois Audubon 
Society — the Bobwhite Quail — 
he says, “Although I have shot 
quail on a big plantation in the 
Deep South where they were 
abundant, I would resent anyone 
molesting the convoy of a dozen 
quail that walk across our Florida 
dooryard twice a day for the 
scratch feed put out for them. For 
me the quail has changed from a 
game bird to a song bird.” 
Having initiated the move to 
place hawks and owls in the state 
protected list while a vice-president 
of IAS, I was especially interested 
in the section on hawks. He writes 
of a day when he was prowling a 
duck marsh and flushed a marsh 
hawk from a careass of a black 
duck. Rand felt this was evidence 
that they kill ducks but later ex- 
amination indicated that the bird 
was killed by a gunshot wound 
and that the hawk was merely 
cleaning up the carcass. 
The volume should have a wide 
appeal. The illustrations are ex- 
cellent. 
—Raymond Mostek 
