. Bird lore . inging in the earliergame, they continued to bring in theirquarry of all sorts. This consisted chieflyof rabbits, red and gray squirrels, chip-munks, and field-mice, all of which wereabundant and destructive. I have seen all three cats leave the houseat sundown, and return with as manyrabbits in a few minutes. They killedcomparatively few birds, and were intel-ligent enough to leave little chickensalone. Nevertheless, the birds that theydid kill were mostly our favorites aboutthe house, and, if the supply of rodents haddiminished much, very many birds wouldno doubt have been kill
. Bird lore . inging in the earliergame, they continued to bring in theirquarry of all sorts. This consisted chieflyof rabbits, red and gray squirrels, chip-munks, and field-mice, all of which wereabundant and destructive. I have seen all three cats leave the houseat sundown, and return with as manyrabbits in a few minutes. They killedcomparatively few birds, and were intel-ligent enough to leave little chickensalone. Nevertheless, the birds that theydid kill were mostly our favorites aboutthe house, and, if the supply of rodents haddiminished much, very many birds wouldno doubt have been killed daily. If it isnot wise to put a tax of one dollar per year upon all male cats in America, put a taxof three dollars per year at least upon allfemale cats. That would soon limitproduction.—Robert T. Morris, 616Madison Avenue, N. Y. An Albino Blue Jay This Albino Jay, with a large number ofother Jays, was fed, the past two winters,by a bird friend of mine. A party ofhunters, to kill anything in sight, shot. AN ALBINO BLUE JAY him within gun-shot of his feeding-ground. The birds throat and entireunderparts are white; the bill, legs and feetvery light horn-color; the crest and neckwhite; back white, excepting middle,which shows a tinge of blue; primarieswhite; secondaries blue, barred with blackand tipped with white; the three middletail-feathers white; the others blue, barredwith black and tipped an inch or morewith white.—Henry W. Osgood, Pills-field, Mass. i&oofc J&etos an& 3&etoieto£ A History of Birds. By W. P. Pycraft,Zoological Department, British Mu-seum. Methuen & Co., 30 Essex Street,W. C. London, 1010. 8vo., xxxi+458pages; 37 plates, 50 text cuts. Price 10shillings, sixpence. The reviewer who would prepare anadequate notice of this volume has beforehim a task of no small great, therefore, has beenMr. Pycrafts effort to present in onevolume a summary of what is significantin the history of bird-life. Furthermore,he may claim both
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