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they present no characters by which the Chatham-Island bones 
ean be generically distinguished from the Mauritian, and that 
they both belong to the same genus, Aphanapteryx, though 
perhaps they may constitute two species. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
Wild Spain (Espana agreste): Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, 
and Gun, Natural History and Exploration. By Ast CuoarMan 
and Watrer J. Buck. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893. 
No reader will close this book without admitting that it is at least 
- the production of authors who are thoroughly conyersant with their 
subject; and that isa great deal more than can truthfully be said of 
a large number of works on Spain, many of which are made up of 
the grumbles or the gushings of the very ordinary tourist, with 
descriptions—compiled from guide-books—of the principle aunti- 
quities and utterly impossible versions of bull-fights. There is no 
padding of that kind in the present work; no cathedral or picture- 
gallery is ever mentioned; and it is muchif the word “ railway ” 
occurs incidentally, although in travelling from the great plains to 
the south of Seville or the Sierra Nevada—beloved of the ibex—to 
the snows of the Sierra de Gredos and the trout-streams of Biscay, 
railways are useful accessories. This sketch of Espana agreste— 
rural, sport-affording Spain—is redolent of the keen air of the 
mountains, the indescribable freshness which, even in the heat of 
summer, is wafted across the marisma, and the spicy resin-laden 
odour of the pinales; and, as such, it will commend itself to every 
true lover of nature. To many of our readers Mr. Chapman is 
already known by his ‘ Bird-life on the Border ’—which we noticed 
favourably about four years ago—and his excellent articles on the 
ornithology of Spain contributed to ‘The Ibis’; while Mr. Buck 
has long been a resident at Jerez, and is one of the keenest sports- 
men in the Peninsula. And they have shown no undue haste in 
publishing their experiences, for more than twenty years have 
elapsed since they commenced those sporting excursions which have 
extended to the present day and have resulted in the handsome 
and profusely illustrated work now before us. 
Spontaneity and an absence of effort are noticeable features of 
the book, and another characteristic is the mixedness of its con- 
tents, resembling in this respect those ollas which are a household 
word in connexion with Spanish cookery. Sometimes, as in the 
chapters on the fighting-bull of Spain, brigandage, agriculture, and 
viticulture (with important observations on crops, horse-breeding, 
live-stock, the olive, and the vine), the gypsies, past and present, 
&c., we detect the preponderance of the experienced resident in the 
person of Mr. Buck; other chapters show joint collaboration, and it 
