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"The works of Mr. Gould constitute a new epoch in 

 the history of ornithology, from the boldness of the plan 

 on which they were executed; the number of new species 

 added to science, and of doubtful species cleared away from 

 previous obscurity; the unadorned fidelity of the descrip- 

 tions ; and the exquisite accuracy of the plates, in which 

 the utmost adherence to nature is united with that felicitous 

 effect which stamps the artist, and proves that grace and 

 truthfulness may meet together. Again, Mr. Gould's works 

 form in themselves an ornithological museum ; pictorial, we 

 grant, but of such a character as to obviate the necessity 

 of a collection of mounted specimens, obtained at no trifling 

 cost, and preserved, even where room can be afforded for 

 them, not without the greatest trouble." The Times. 



Gould's books on humming-birds, as well as the collec- 

 tion he formed of the birds themselves, which is now in the 

 Natural History Museum, are known everywhere. The 

 only pity is that his works are so inordinately expensive. 



Besides such a magnificently standard work as this, 

 embracing the birds of all countries, there are, passing 

 eastwards, that ever delightful book, Captain Lloyd's " Field 

 Sports of the North of Europe." 



" The passion for the chase is strong in Mr. Lloyd's 

 constitution," writes a critic in Blackwood's Magazine. " It 

 seems for years to have been his ruling passion, and to have 

 made him a perfect model of perpetual motion. . . . We 

 admire Mr. Lloyd. He is a fine specimen of an English 

 gentleman ; bold, free, active, intelligent, observant, good- 

 humoured, and generous no would-be wit, no paltry painter 

 of the picturesque above all, no pedant and philosopher. 

 Mr. Lloyd's mind was wholly engrossed by his own wild 

 and adventurous Scandinavian life ; and when it was flown 

 he then began to lead it over again in imagination." 



His "Game Birds and Wildfowl of Sweden and 

 Norway," with an account of the seals and salt-water 

 fishes (1867), is a valuable book, and should be possessed 



