98 Forest Birds. 
book is indispensable, but minute details cannot be 
noted down, whilst a photograph, however bad it 
may be as a picture, gives a lasting impression of 
the position of the nest, eggs, and young, and their 
surroundings, which can always be referred to when 
the group is being cased. 
Above all, let the abominably unnatural ‘“‘pro- 
fessional case,” which teaches nothing of the habits 
of the birds it contains, be abhorred, and let the 
beautiful creatures, whose lives we have taken, be so 
grouped in their native haunts, that they may afford 
pleasurable instruction to everyone who sees them. 

PEEP IN THE NEW FOREST. 
