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applies to all members of the Avicultural Society) will find

something of interest to them in almost every page. Miss

Thompson, besides being a first-rate artist, is a very keen

observer of the ins and outs of animal life, and she tells us many

an amusing anecdote of the more familiar inmates of the

Regents Park Gardens. The greater part of the volume is

devoted to the mammals, but the birds are not forgotten ; two

chapters being given up to the larger and more popular species.


But the chief charm of the book lies in its illustrations

which, with perhaps one or two exceptions, are excellent—we



STANLEY CRANE


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(From Who's Who at the Zoo).


have rarely seen better work—and show the author to be a most

talented delineator of animal life. There are some twenty black

and white plates, and over a hundred text figures, all from the

author’s brush and pen, and we can most heartily recommend

the book to our readers.



