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but this is not surprising, as the Arctic heat radiated from the snow is

intense. Carl Hagenback noted years ago that the Polar Bears lay

stretched in the full glare of sunshine that gave Leopards heat apoplexy.


Miss Walker writes well on her Capuchins ; they are most interesting

pets and in our experience almost as clever as Chimpanzees. It is

sad to see them going off, even after four years, with rickets, or rather

a form of tuberculosis ; and we think that if she gave a small box in

which to sleep, a cage with room for exercise, and access to fresh air,

and took away the hot-water bottle, that trouble might be avoided.


We cannot close this notice without special reference to Dr. Butter’s

article on his Chimpanzee “ Anthony ”, which should insure a place

for this volume in every zoological library in the world. Dr. Butter

for seven years kept his Chimpanzee in the open air without artificial

heat, raising it from puny childhood to perfect adolescence. He gives

us all the details of his successful experiments—he has revolutionized the

theory of anthropoid management, and wonderful to relate he is quite

unconscious that he has done something wonderful.


George Jennison.



A Handbook of the Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales. By


H. E. Forrest. Witherby & Co. pp. 106. 6.s. net.


North Wales is too large an area for any man to work alone ; con¬

sequently, Mr. Forrest, when in 1907 he published his Vertebrate Fauna,

had to depend largely on correspondents and matter which had appeared

elsewhere. He. has now produced an epitome of his former work,

bringing knowledge up to date. A number of species have been added,

justly so with the birds, but in the portions dealing with mammals

and reptiles the author has been a little too anxious to swell the list.

There is no proof that the large Bat seen by Mr. Bolam was a Greater

Horseshoe ; that, on the evidence of a washed-up vertebra, the Blue

Whale occurs in Welsh waters ; nor that the identification of the Sand

Lizards was correct; they were seen, but not critically examined. The

added birds are on firmer foundation ; the most important are the

Barred Warbler, Willow Tit, Blue-winged Teal, Crane, and Great Skua.

Dr. Ticehurst and Mr. Stanford recognized many unusual birds on

migration at Bardsey, and their notes will prove to sceptical workers



