62 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 
BOOK NOTICES. 
FIELD OBSERVATIONS ON BRITISH Birps. Bya Sportsman Naturalist 
(the late Fergus Menteith Ogilvie). London: Selwyn and 
Blount, 1920. Price 21s. 
During his lifetime the late Dr Menteith Ogilvie made a collection 
of British birds which is said to rival the famous Booth collection at 
Brighton. Some of his specimens were acquired at Barcaldine in 
Argyllshire, but the majority were collected in Suffolk, and it is therefore 
very fitting that the collection should recently have been presented to 
the Ipswich Museum. His extensive series of British bird-skins have 
been given to the British Museum. 
Dr Menteith Ogilvie unfortunately published very little, and the 
work under review is an effort to preserve in book-form some of his 
careful observations in the field. His scientific training stood him in 
good stead, and that he worked on scientific lines is abundantly evident. 
Perhaps the chapters on “ The Food of Some of our Common Falconidz ” 
and “British Wild Geese” are the most valuable, but throughout the 
book there are many shrewd and original remarks. It is difficult to 
determine whether Dr Menteith Ogilvie’s dominant passion was for 
natural history or for sport: naturalists will appreciate his observations 
on the habits and economy of British birds no less than sportsmen will 
profit by his remarks on game and wild-fowl. 
The book, of which there are only five hundred copies, is well printed 
and suitably indexed, and is enriched by three maps, fourteen figures in 
the text, and seven illustrations, two of which show in colour the heads 
of Grey Lag and White-fronted Geese. lals Sh (E 
KINCARDINESHIRE (Cambridge County Handbooks). By the late 
George H. Kinnear, F.E.I.S. Cambridge: At the University 
Press, 1921. Pp. xi+-122. Price 4s. 6d. net. 
This volume affords, in limited scope, a succinct and reliable guide 
to the main physical, industrial, antiquarian, historical and architectural 
interests of the county. It contains two maps in colour, and more 
than fifty excellent reproductions of photographs and drawings. The 
short section on natural history records, amongst other things, the 
former occurrence of fox-hunting, the increase of the Brown Hare, 
the introduction of the Rabbit about 1808, the extinction of the 
Ptarmigan, and the practical extinction of the Golden Eagle. 
