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historian of its whole avifauna, though Sir William Jardine 

 lived in it of old. We therefore cordially welcome this work 

 on one of its counties by Mr. Gladstone, the more so as 

 we are sorry to hear that Mr. R. Service may be unable 

 to publish his intended volume on the entire district. The 

 author has taken great trouble to make the book as perfect 

 an account of the birds as possible, and has spared no pains 

 in examining the literature of the subject and investigating 

 doubtful records. To a great extent it may be considered an 

 account of the birds of the Solway, as constant references are 

 made to the distribution of species in the area, and a whole 

 chapter is devoted to migration. Bird-protection, local 

 names, and the use of flight-nets have also separate sections 

 allotted to them, while the physical features and climate are 

 discussed at very considerable length. In short, we have here 

 an admirable piece of w^ork, almost too long for a single 

 volume, as will be seen from the number of pages. Perhaps 

 the Bibliography might have been abbreviated, but even this 

 will appeal to the local men of science, while the account of 

 former writers on the Ornithology of the county is of interest 

 to us all. Some of the most valuable sections are those on 

 such birds as the Hawfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 

 Stock-Dove, and Tufted Duck, which have increased con- 

 spicuously in Scotland of late years, on the former breeding 

 of the Bittern and Ptarmigan in the Solway, and that on the 

 occurrence of such rarities as the Blue-winged Teal and 

 Lesser White-fronted Goose. Two hundred and eighteen 

 species are included in the list, while thirty-nine others are 

 doubtfully recorded. No student of local faunas can afford 

 to be without this book, which may be compared in style of 

 treatment with those of Dr. Ticehurst on Kentish Birds and 

 of Messrs. Coward and Forrest on the Vertebrate Fauna of 

 Cheshire and North Wales respectively. 



13. Grant's List of British Birds. 



[A List of British Birds, showing at a Glance the exact Status of each 

 Species. Revised to vVugvist, 1910. By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. 

 Witherby & Co., 1910. 8vo, G9 pp.] 



Having been frequently asked during the last few years 



