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Common Snipe . . See a few every winter. 



Blackheaded Gull . Large flocks oi the e gulls frequent the Thames 

 and fields round here in the winter, and have 

 seen them occasionally in summer. 



Herring-Gull . . . A few occasionally among the Blackheaded Gulls. 



Great Crested Grebe A pair have bred on the Penn Ponds, Richmond 

 Park, the last few years. I saw this year three 

 young swimming about with their parents. 



Little Grebe . . . Not uncommon. 



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Following the Deer. By W. Long. London : Ginn & Co. 

 Price 4s. 6d. net. 

 With the publication of his School of the Woods, and the article 

 from that work on " How the Animals Die," in the Field Naturalist's 

 Quarterly, Mr. Long secured for himself a large audience on this side 

 of the Atlantic. Hence this handsome volume recently sent out by 

 Messrs. Ginn will be readily welcomed. It is on the same lines as his 

 former works, and teems with the first-hand observations of a man 

 who has looked carefully before he writes. This is Mr. Long's great 

 charm : we see him at work, and hear him thinking as he goes. The 

 spirit of the book is that of the following sentence: — "The most 

 wonderful lesson of all that year's hunting was that an animal's life 

 is vastly more interesting than his death, and that of all the joys of 

 the chase the least is the mere killing." The beauty of style in which 

 the publishers have issued these books of Mr. Long's makes one 

 wonder when it will be possible to have British books of this kind 

 sent out with the same finish. They are a pleasure to the eye, as well 

 as a charm to the mind. 



Mostly Mammals. By R. Lydekker. London: Hutchinson & Co. 

 Price 12s. 6d. 



The series of zoological essays which are here collected into book 

 form have appeared for the most part in our contemporary, Knowledge^ 

 some of them in Nature, The /'Veld, and The Asian. The author is too 

 well known as a zoological writer for us to do more than draw attention 

 to the publication of this volume, which would make an admirable 

 Christmas present to any lover of mammalian literature. 



The contents of the volume are wide and varied in the subject- 

 matter. Animal colouration in different phases has a good deal of 

 space devoted to it ; and the monkeys of Africa figure prominently. 

 Two very interesting chapters are those on the Pedigrees of the Cat 

 and the Dog ; while to many of our readers the chapters on the Wild 

 Ox, Wild Cattle of the Phillipines, and Sheep will be specially attractive. 



