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The Book of British Song - birds and Aviary 



Companion, including interesting notes on the Warblers 

 and our other summer visitors. 



i?wo. 8/-. Ibid. 1856, 



Knight, Jonas. Hints on the Yorkshire Canary. 



-/9. London : F. IV. Office. ? 1890. 



IjABOUCHERE. 



See Biehni. 



Laudrr, Sir T. D., and Capt. Brown. Maeaws, Cockatoos, 

 ParrakeetS and Parrots. Their Natural Histor}-, Habits, 

 and Peculiarities. With chapters on cages and diseases by 

 Dr. Karl Russ. Illustrated with 40 engravings by Joseph 

 B. Kidd. 

 Cm.Svo. Boaids. 1/6. Lotidofi : Dean. About 1S80. 



{To be continued.) 



IRcvicw. 



'' Traveh of a Naturalist in Northern Europe; Norzvay, 1871, 

 Arcliangel, 1872, and Petchora, 1875." By J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. 2 vols. Demy Svo., Cloth, Gilt. 

 Price £2) 3^- "i?^- ^ • f^ish'er Unzvin. 



" Better late than never" is a homely proverb of 

 much weight, and although the Author has been 

 scarcely kind to ornithologists, or just to himself, in 

 keeping back for so long the records of his wander- 

 ings of thirty and more years ago, we cannot Init feel 

 indebted to him for the painstaking record he has now 

 presented to us. Literary faults it certainly possesses ; 

 but even they are excellencies, because they are due to 

 the book being a transcript of the daily journal, and 

 so being a faithful record of the conscientious work 

 done by Mr. Harvie-Brown and his distinguished co- 

 adjutors, Alston and Seebohm. 



The chief interest of the book centres around the 

 accotint of the Petchora journey, the principal object 

 of which was to discover the previously unknown 

 breeding places of the Little Stint, Grey Plover, 



