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THE EDITOR'S BOOt[ SHELF HANDBOOK OF BIRDS OF THE }VESTERN UNITED STATES. BY FLORENCE MERRIAM BAILEY. Illustrated by Louis AGASSIZ FI[JERTES and others. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, Mass. I9O2. i2mo. xcii + 486 pages + index; 36 full page plates,  diagrams, 6oi figures in text. Price 3.5o net and 19 cents postage. From HAND BOOK OF BIRDS OF }VESTERN UNITED STATES. To say that Mrs. Bailey's book "fills a long-felt want," tho literally the truth, puts the matter rather mildly. Up to the present time we have lacked a scienlific manual of our western birds, which could be used alike by beginners and more advanced students. Since I895 Mr. Chapman's.

"Handbook of the Birds of Eastern North America" has filled this place for states east of the