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and economic applications. We are pleased to see the precision 

 displayed in the references to figures and in citation of authorities. 

 The illustrations are numerous, and consist of well-executed wood 



engravings. 



Mr. Cooke gives a clear and intelligible account of the associa- 

 tion of a dextral shell with a sinistral animal (p. 249), which would 

 have been still more intelligible had he not reversed the line of 

 figures (Fig. 157) which illustrates his remarks. The book is in 

 all respects an excellent one, evidencing a wide and extensive range 

 of reading on the part of the author, and in its neat and handsome 

 get-up worthy of the publishing house from which it emanates. 



A CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF PREY (ACCIPITRES AND 

 STRIGES\ WITH THE NUMBER OF SPECIMENS IN THE NORWICH 

 MUSEUM. By J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S. (London : R. H. Porter, 

 1894.) 8vo, cloth, pp. 56. Portrait, Woodcut, and 2 Maps. 



Ornithologists will note with extreme pleasure that Mr. Gurney 

 has taken up the study of the two orders of birds with which the 

 name of his father will be for all time associated. The Catalogue 

 under consideration furnishes us with systematically arranged lists 

 of all the known Birds of Prey, with an indication of their climatic 

 races, or sub-species, and distribution, and also with critical notes 

 on some of the rare and more interesting species, which are of great 

 value. We have personally found this well -arranged work a most 

 useful book of reference. It is nicely got up, and contains an 

 excellent portrait of the late Mr. Gurney, and an enumeration, with 

 references, of his numerous and valuable published writings on the 

 Accipitres and Striges. 



FOREST BIRDS, THEIR HAUNTS AND HABITS : SHORT STUDIES 

 FROM NATURE. By Harry F. Witherby. (London : Kegan Paul, 

 Trench, Trubner, & Co., Limited, 1894.) 



In this little book Mr. Witherby records, very pleasantly, his own 

 experience of eight species of birds The Green Woodpecker, Tree 

 Creeper, Nut-hatch, Wood-pigeon, Sparrow-hawk, Tawny Owl, and, 

 oddly, as it seems to us, the Water-hen. The series of articles are 

 the result "of many hours of patient watching and waiting on the 

 part of the writer," and as such have a value and interest of their 

 own. The book is illustrated by eight plates and a number of 

 woodcuts. 



A MONOGRAPH OF THE MYCETOZOA, being a descriptive Cata- 

 logue of the species in the Herbarium of the British Museum. By 

 Arthur Lister, F.L.S. (Printed by order of the Trustees of the 

 British Museum, 1894.) 



The strange organisms, forming a connecting link between 

 plants and animals, and classed now in the one kingdom, now in 



