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I must ask their forebearance, hut owing to the date of the 

 Show coinciding with the time of our i;:)ing to press, this report Jius 

 liad to be written against tinie_. it is too lengthy, and time has been 

 altogether too short for either research or revision. 



For list of Club Specials see report of our esteemed 

 Exhibiticnal Secretary on page 2\ of inset. 



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 Cassell and Co. In monthly })arts, 7d. net. 



Part XI. The interest is well maintained, and the text 

 is illustrated with many practi.cal diagrams of W|iugs, etc. The 

 chapter on " Breeding evenly marked Canaries " is completed, and 

 chapters on " The Green Canary " and '" The Common Canary " are 

 included. The frontispiece is a coloiu'ed plate of dark mules, 

 liguring four varieties, viz: Yellow Siskin, Yellow Linnet, Yellow 

 Goldlinch, and Bull Twite. There are also excellent black and 

 white illustrations (.f typi(;al specimtuis of the- varieties dealt with 

 ill tin; text. 



Tin-: BiiiDS ok Tiir; liiuTisii Islands. By (Jiiarl; s Stonhaiu, 

 C.M.C., F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., with illustrations by L. M. .Mediand, 

 F.Z.S. I'art xvii. Koy. ({uarto, 7s.. Gd. Grant Richards, l^td. 



This part, bringing us witliin an appreciable distance of 

 the completed work, deals witii the six Terns which are more or 

 less well known as migrants to our .shores; with seven more 

 recorderl ;is rare and accidental visitors; witii Sabine's Gull; and 

 witli the True Gulls down to the Herring Gull. 



No fewer than twenty-one plates are given; eight ispecies 

 being accorded two each, and one, the Black-headed Gull, being 

 illustrated in adult summer, in adult winter, and in three stages 

 of immature, plumage. And it is scarcely too much to say that, 

 good as Miss Medland's work has been in the past, it has now 

 come to such a pitch of excellence as fully to warrant the opinion 

 expressed by one of our most distinguished artists, that she is 

 unrivalled in her delineation of feather effects. Aloi'e than that 

 one cannot help seeing that, while her accuracy as to feather is 

 due to careful study of skins, it can only be by an equally care- 

 ful study in many cases of the live bird itself, that she has been 

 able to catch its gi^aceful attitudes, and life-like expression under 

 various conditions. Take for instance the charming pictures of the 

 Little Tern, just about to dip for its prey, and the Black -headed 

 Gull standing over its nestling and uttering its clamorous note. 

 These alone would make an artist's reputation. 



The letterpress is equally gratifying to the student. Mr. 



