1 HE GEESE OF EUROPE & ASIA.— Few groups of 

 birds have hitherto received so little attention from a literary 

 point of view as the Wild Geese, and since these are of the 

 greatest interest alike to naturalists and to wildfowlers, Mr. 

 Rowland Ward has much pleasure in directing attention 

 to the issue of a limited English edition of the highly im- 

 portant work on the group by the eminent ornithologist, 

 Sergius Alpheraky. It is illustrated with 24 coloured Plates by 

 F. W. Frohawk, drawn from life and reproduced in the highest 

 class of chromo-lithography, as well as by a Frontispiece by Dr. 

 P. P. Sushkin depicting a scene-of goose-life on a Siberian lake. 



The author has spared nothing in making this exceptionally 

 fine work as nearly complete as possible. 



The twenty-two species and sub-species are treated of in 

 the fullest manner as regards their habits and geographical 

 distribution ; and the plumage of the adult, of the immature 

 bird, and of the young in down is fully described. The work 

 also contains two supplements — one on the eggs of the geese, 

 by G. F. Gobel, and the other entitled " Extracts from the 

 Diary of my Journey in Kolguev," by S. A. Buturlin. 



Including as it does all the known species of wild geese 

 frequenting the British Islands, the work cannot fail to prove 

 most valuable to all wildfowlers, sporting naturalists, and orni- 

 thologists generally. As the author is not only a very eminent 

 scientist but a great sportsman, he has been able to treat the 

 subject from both a scientific and a sporting standpoint. 



PRESS NOTICES 



" Mr. Alpheraky ... is to be congratulated in giving us the first 

 detailed account of this interesting and, we may say, literally confusing 

 group of birds. It is an admirable treatise, full of research in field and 

 museum, and the work of one who has carefully studied the subject from 

 all points of view. ... In this excellent monograph the author gives us all 

 we wish to know about the difference of sexes, gradual growth from 

 nestling upward, plumage, variation, moulting, local names, chase, and 

 colour of the soft parts ; the latter, perhaps, the most important point of 

 all in the determination of species. . . . To the oologist, too, the table 

 and descriptions to be found on pp. 185-190, furnished by Mr. G. F. 

 Gobel, are of the most exact and comprehensive nature, and the book 

 is one that every working naturalist or wildfowler should possess in his 

 library, for it is by far the best work that has as yet appeared on this 

 interesting family of birds." — Nature. 



"All who are interested in geese would do well to read Mr. Alpheraky's 

 book and study the coloured plates both of the geese and those showing 

 dififerences in their bills." — The Saturday Review. 



