470 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



1878. Miller, S. H., and Skertchley, S. B. J. — Continued. 



I Giitlilac's Cross. | Wisbech : Leach and Son. | London : | Longmans, Green, 

 and Co. | 1878. | [All rights reserved.] 1 vol. large 8vo, pp. xxxii, 649. 



Chapter Xn, p. 355. — III. Birds in the past: Ancient Records, Plover Nesting, Drayton's 

 Polyolbion, Swan Marlis. IV. Decoys. V. List of Birds — permanent residents, that is, 

 nestang, 101; regular visitants, 74; rare and occasional, 69. The list is extensively annotated. 



1878. EOWLEY, G. D. A fevi^ words on Feu-land. <^ EowJ. Orn. Misc., iii, pt. xiv, 

 May, 1878, pp. 203-222, pll. cv-cix. 

 An attractive article, with handsome plates of scenery, geese, &c. 

 1878. [SCLATER, P. L., and Salvin, O.] Proposed B. O. U. List of British Birds. 



< Ibis, 4th ser., ii, July, 1878, pp. 386, 387. 



1878. [SCLATER, P. L., antZ Salvin, O.] The Dyke-Road Museum, Brighton. <^Il)is, 

 4th ser., ii, July, 1878, pp. 387,388. 

 Favourable notice of E. T. Booth's collection of mounted British Birds. 



1878. [ScLATER, P. L., and Salvin, O.] J. H. Gnrney, Jnn., on the Birds of the Fern 



Islands. < Ibis, 4th ser., ii, Oct., 1878, pp. 471, 472. 

 Notice of the paper in Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 1877, pp. 268-278. 



1879. Anon. Lubbock's Fauna of Norfolk. < The Field (London), Iv, No. 1,416, Feb. 



14, 1880, p. 198. 

 Extended review of the ed. of 1879. 

 1879. Anon. The Natural History of Selborne, and the Naturalists' Calendar. . . . 



< The Zoologist, 3d ser., iii, No. 3(), Dec, 1879, pp. 494-498. 

 Eeview of the Davies edition, 1879, of the work named. 



1879. Beckwith, W. E. A Guide to the Botany, Ornithology and Geology of Shrews- 

 bury and its Vicinity. . . . The Ornithology by W. E. BecWvith. . . . 

 Shrewsbury. Bunny and Davis. 1879. 1 vol. 12mo. pp. 65. 



Not seen. — The list of Birds "occupies about eight pages, and includes only those which 

 have been observed within five or .sis miles of Shrewsbury — in all 165 out of 218 found in the 

 county of Salop." (Zootojrivi, Apr., 1880, p. 158.) 



1879. Lubbock, R. Observations on the Fauna of Norfolk, and more particularly on 

 the District of the Broads. By the late Rev. Richard Lubbock, M. A., Rector 

 of Eccles. New Edition by Thomas Southwell, F. Z. S. With a Memoir by 

 Henry Stevenson, F. L. S. And Notes on Hawking in Norfolk by Alfred New- 

 ton, M. A., F. R. S. Norwich and London. Jarrold and Sons. 1879. 1 vol. 

 8vo. pp. 239. 

 Not seen. See the orig. ed. , 1845. 



"Lubbock may be said to have done for the Norfolk broads what White did for the parish 

 of Selborne ; and each has left behind him in the shape of a charming and instructive volume, 

 a lasting memorial of a well-spent life. Lubbock's volume, written five-and-thirty years ago, 

 has long been out of print and scarce ; and the reliable nature of the information which it 

 affords has for some time rendered a new edition a desideratum with naturalists." (The 

 Field, Feb. 14, 1880, p. 198.) 



1879. White, G. {Ed. Davies.) The Natural History of Selborne, and the Natural- 



ists' Calendar. By the Rev. Gilbert White, A. M. A New Edition. Edited, 

 with Notes, by G. Christopher Davies, Author of 'The Swan and her Crew,' 

 &c. London : Warnc & Co. 1879. Post 8vo. Illustrated. 



Not seen — title from The Zoologist, Dec, 1879, pp. 494-496, when reviewed. 



"Although we are unable to understand how any necessity can possibly have arisen for 

 another edition of White's ' Selbonid, ' three different editions having appeared within the 

 last three years, ... In the present instance the editor's chief merit seems to lie in the 

 brevity of his notes ; we should like to have added also in the accuracy of them. . . . We 

 cannot say much for the engravings. The best are copies (electros, we presume), of Wolf's 

 illustrations to Johns' 'Biitish Birds and their Haunts,' engi"aved by Whymper. These 

 were chaiming when they tirst appeared, but as they liave been piiblished some seventeen 

 years, and have been used over and over again in different books, many of them are much 

 worn, and the impressions consequently are not satisfactory." (Zoologist, 1. c.) 



1880. Dixon, C. Rural Bird Life | being | Essays on Ornithology | with instructions 



for preserving objects | relating to that science | by ( Charles Dixon | with a 



