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103. Lucas on the Tongues of Birds. 



[The Tougues of Birds. By Frederick A. Lucas. Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 1895, p. 1001 (J 807).] 



This is au excellent essay on a much-neglected subject, 

 and will, we hope, excite some of our younger students to 

 pay attention to a very important feature in the structure of 

 birds. As Mr. Lucas points out, similar habits and food 

 in widely different forms of birds may result in pro- 

 ducing similar tongues. But there is also little doubt that 

 the investigation of the tongue may be very instructive in 

 cases of uncertain affinities, though not absolutely to be 

 depended upon for purposes of classification, unless supported 

 by other characters. 



104. Morels Lift and Letters. 



[Life and Letters of Alexander Goodman More, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c., 

 with Selections from his Zoological and Botanical Writings. Edited by 

 C. B. Moffat, B.A., with a Preface by Frances M. More. Bp. i-xii, 

 1-642. 8vo. Dublin : Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1898.] 



'The Ibis' for 1895 (p. 410) contained a notice of the 

 career of our lamented colleague, and those who had the 

 privilege of knowing the man will be pleased at the light 

 thrown upon his estimable character by the correspondence 

 contained in this volume. That IVIore was an enthusiast is 

 abundantly shown by his letters, but what cannot so clearly 

 be indicated is the power he possessed of communicating his 

 fervour. Though not an Irishman, his name will always be 

 associated with Ireland, to which he paid his first visit in 

 1850, when he shot a INIarsh-Harrier near Kilmacduagh ; 

 while, in the following year, he not only saw Eagles near 

 Kylemore, but found the Hen-Harrier " common on all the 

 hills, and often seen quartering the ground. '^ We believe 

 he was the first to observe the Arctic Teru nesting by a 

 freshwater lough, and it seems that he was the identifier of 

 the Bartram's Sandpiper killed in Nottinghamshire — the 

 first British specimen on record. There is much corre- 

 spondence with Sir Edward and Professor Newton, and the 



