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Of books dealing with the art of approaching wildfowl 

 there are: "Hints on Shore .Shooting/' including a 

 chapter on skinning and preserving birds, by J. E. Harting 

 an admirable little volume ; " The Dead Shot, or 

 Sportsman's Complete Guide ; " a treatise on the use 

 of the gun, dog breaking, pigeon shooting, etc., by Marks- 

 man, with plates ; and Captain Lacy's " Modern Shooter," 

 containing practical instructions and directions for every 

 kind of inland and coast work. 



Of books on game laws, showing the keeper his relations 

 to the poacher when his birds have come to maturity, there 

 is Nelson's "Game Laws of England," of hunting, hawk- 

 ing, fishing, and fowling, of forests, chases, parks, warrens, 

 deer, dove-cotes, conies a scarce and curious work ; " The 

 Game Laws of England for Gamekeepers," by Hugh 

 Neville, M.A., of the Inner Temple, barrister- at- law ; and 

 some few others. We may, however, safely say on this 

 subject, that the epitome of English laws we have given 

 in the following chapter possess the advantage of being 

 unquestionably the most recent of any ; and the summary 

 of foreign game regulations in a final chapter has never, 

 so far as we know, been attempted before. 



If any one has a fancy for hawking, he may safely turn 

 to the pictorial pages of the " Falconer's Favourites," by 

 W. Brodrick, a series of life-size, well-coloured portraits of 

 all the British species of falcons used in falconry ; or, 

 " Falconry in the British Isles," by Salvin and Brodrick, 

 the second edition, with new plates and additions. 



Finally, to bring our hasty and imperfect incursion into 

 the realm of this literature to an end, the farmer who would 

 know what English birds really eat all the year round should 

 consult Napier on " The Food, Use, and Beauty of 

 English Birds ; " and the taxidermist, Rowland Ward's 

 " Sportman's Handbook." Other excellent manuals on 

 this latter subject are Montague Brown's " Practical 

 Taxidermy;" Davies' "Practical Naturalist's Guide," 



