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PETS and How to kkkp THEM. By Fkank Finn, B.A., F.Z.S. With 



12 coloured plates and many reproductions of photos from life. 



Hutchinson & Co., Paternoster Row, 1907. 



Tliis is certainly one of the handiest little couipendiuius that has heen 

 published for some time; it is most interesting reading and embraces the 

 whole of the vertebrata. The text is divided into three parts as follows : 



Part I. Mammai,s. 

 ,, II. Cagk, Gakdkn, Park, and Aviary Birds. 

 ., III. Cold-Bloodkd Animals. 



While we cannot agree with all the directions given, as for instance, 

 milk-sop for parrots, etc., yet it is a most readahle and useful book, well 

 illustrated and full of interest from cover to cover. 



Birds of Britain: with 100 coloured plates and 399 pages of text. By 

 J. Lewis Bonhote, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S. A. & C. Black, Soho 

 Square, London. 



A worthy addition to the already long list of Monographs on our 

 native AVIFAUNA. It is sumptuously illustrated, and the life histories 

 of the various species fully and interestingly written. Plumage, sexual dis- 

 tinctions (this might with advantage have been more descriptive), nest, eggs, 

 and characteristics, all are fully described, and as a whole it is not merely 

 instructive, but most entertainingly written. It does not need the Author's 

 statement that his observations are taken from Nature, this being evident 

 on every page. Perhaps the one blemish is, that the records of the number 

 of appearances of the rarer species is not fully up to date. The book 

 should be in the library of every lover and student of our Native Birds. 



Three Voyages of a Naturalist. By M. J. Nichol, M.B.O.U. 



We have received a leaflet announcing the publication of this work 

 by Messrs. Witherby & Co. The Author was Naturalist on the Karl of 

 Crawford's yacht '• Valhalla " during these voyages. Most of the Islands 

 explored were previously very little known, and others had rarely, if ever, 

 been landed upon. The Birds met with during the Voyages are fully 

 described by the Author, who is a well-known Ornithologist. The work is 

 Illustrated: 56 full page reproductions of photos taken during the 

 respective crusies. 



The Bird Keeper's Guide* : Messrs. Trower, the Bird-food Special- 

 ists, have issued a most useful and reliable little pamphlet, under the above 

 title, and the joint authorship of Messrs. Allen Silver and T. R. Trower. 

 The features of the treatise are: Trivial and scientific names, habitat, size 

 and type of cage; food, and its merits as a songster and exhibition bird. 

 These particulars are given concerning nearly every known species of 



* The Bird Keeper's Guide. 6d. Trower & Co., 442, Caledonian Road, London, N. 



