REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. II9 



hardly have inserted so many elementary facts which are now 

 common knowledge to most people. The book contains a 

 number of extracts from the works of other authors, articles, 

 Government returns, etc., and fourteen illustrations, amongst 

 which are several German landscapes, towns, and villages, with 

 more or less wooded backgrounds, but otherwise of a kind more 

 likely to interest the continental tourist than the forester. 

 Part II. of the book criticises the Afforestation Report. 



A. C. F. 



Trees and Shrubs of the British Isles, Native afid Acclimatised. 

 By C. S. Cooper and W. Percival Westell. Sixteen 

 full-page coloured plates, and 70 full-page black and white 

 plates, drawn from nature by C. F. Newall. 16 parts at 

 IS. each. Two bound volumes 21s. London: J. M. Dent 

 and Co. 



This book is very well got up, and the price appears 

 marvellously low. 



The Food of Some British Birds. A Report by Robert 

 Newstead, M.Sc, A.L.S., etc., School of Tropical Medicine, 

 Liverpool. 



This report, price fourpence, appears as a supplement to the 

 Journal of the Board of Agriculture for December 1908. In 

 publishing it, the Board say that numerous representations 

 having been made, during recent years, respecting the losses 

 caused by birds to farmers and fruit-growers, and the necessity 

 for measures to reduce the nuisance having been urged, while 

 there is very little accurate knowledge about the food and 

 habits of birds, they have come to the conclusion that a full 

 and scientific inquiry into the matter should be carried out. The 

 present report forms a preliminary contribution to such an 

 inquiry. " Mr Newstead, whose name is well known in 

 connection with Entomological research, has conducted the 

 investigations here reported on through a period of twenty 

 years, and has materially contributed to the sum of knowledge 

 on the subject. But valuable as the work is, it is clear that 

 a great deal more requires to be done, especially as regards 

 the food of nestlings and of adult birds in the summer." 



