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. 



W, 



PEEP IN THE NEW FOREST. 



