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Ploceidse seem to be more or less indifferent, (tliongh 

 some individuals wash daily), while the Parrakeets 

 and Conines I have never seeii even drink. Of course 

 I am here only speaking of m}^ experiences during 

 hard weather. Budgerigars, by the way, never bathe 

 even in summer, as is well known, though I have 

 sometimes seen one standing by the bath to receive 

 the splashing from other birds. 



In my dining room I have a few small foreigners 

 and a young Diamond Dove. The former always 

 make use of the bath when supplied ; the latter has 

 never done so yet. W. Geo. Creswell. 



1Revicw5. 



The Birds oj the British Islands. By Charles Stonham, C.M.G., 



F.R.C.S.. F.Z.S., ivith illustrations by L. M. Medland. 



Part IV. Roy. Quarto, "jih. Grant Richards. 



This part, which completes the first volume of 



Mr. Stonham's classical work, is fully up to the high 



standard achieved by its predecessors, both in text and 



illustrations. The range of birds it treats of includes 



the Wagtails and Pipits, the Golden Oriole, the Shrikes, 



the Waxwing, and the Flycatchers. And not only are 



the regular inhabitants and visitors fully described, 



but, as in previous parts, the rare and accidental 



visitors get a short, though sufficiently detailed 



notice. 



We are apt, and rightly apt, seeing that school 

 and college life is too short for any one to specialize in 

 both Classics and Science, to congratulate ourselves 

 that in our "Secondary" Schools, (as the old Gram- 

 mar Schools are now called), the Natural and Physical 



