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arid its delightful plates studied by all interested in the 

 summer homes of our various wildfowl. 



To " An Old Bushman " (Wheelwright) we are indebted 

 for an enticing picture, " A Spring and Summer in Lap- 

 land," of collecting skins in the Lapland forests and witness- 

 ing the arctic winter vanish at the touch of spring. 



That enlightened ecclesiastic, the Rev. Erich Pontoppidan, 

 in " The Natural History of Norway," has given a par- 

 ticular and accurate account of the temperature of the air, 

 the different soils, waters, vegetables, metals, minerals, 

 stones, beasts, birds, and fishes, together with the disposi- 

 tions, customs, and manners of living of the inhabitants, 

 interspersed with physiological notes from eminent writers, 

 and transactions of academies, with map of Norway and 

 28 plates. He adds some information on fowling in Norway, 

 with which I have occasionally made free. 



Henry Seebohm's " Siberia in Asia " is full of curious 

 facts regarding the migrations and nesting of English birds. 

 Mr. Ernest Shelley, again, has written a comprehensive 

 handbook on " The Birds of Egypt," and a host of mono- 

 graphers, whom we have not space to detail at the length 

 which their learning and research demands, have epitomized 

 or amplified the feathered creatures of central and southern 

 Europe. 



The Indian sportsman keeps his " Jerdon " at hand, and 

 cannot go far wrong while he has by him " The Birds of 

 India," in three volumes. There is also Le Messurier's 

 "Game, -Shore, and Water Birds of India," though 

 it is now very scarce ; and Burton's " Falconry in the 

 Valley of the Indus," with four fine plates after Wolf 

 and McMullin (1852) ; the " Catalogues of the Birds " 

 in the Museum of the Hon. East India Company, by T. 

 Horsfield, F.R.S., and F. Moore (1856); and others of various 

 merits. The name of Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe will always 

 be held in high repute by Indian ornithologists. He has 

 done much in classification or monographing, and there 



