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appeared in the late Dr. S. P. Woodward’s well- 
known ‘“‘Manual of the Mollusca.”’ 
(6) In this volume Mr. Heatherley describes 
minutely and illustrates fully by a wealth of pic- 
tures taken—during successive seasons—from hour 
to hour during daylight from an adjacent but con- 
cealed observation shelter, the intimate nesting 
history of the Peregrine Falcon from the time 
the eyrie was tenanted and the eggs laid until the 
young hatched out and were fed to maturity. The 
monograph forms an interesting and very valuable 
record of a long watch pursued with great con- 
NATURE 
FAUGIIST ib: 1914 
state that the illustrations—one of which is repro- 
duced, by the courtesy of the publishers—are wy 
to the high standard that we are accustomed 
in that journal. It is a pity, we think, that 7 
a work of this character some of the pages shoul 
be furnished with very frivolous headlines. 
(7) The next volume on our list is written fot 
the “increasing number of people, young and old,” 
who “are interested in popular nature-study.’ 
Nearly half of its contents deals with objects of 
the sea-shore; the remainder is devoted to birds 
of the garden, spiders, beetles, and moths. Two 
Young Peregrine Falcons, twenty-nine days old. 
scientiousness and endurance, regardless of the 
many discomforts which it entailed, by the author 
and his friends who from time to time mounted 
guard in his place. Mr. Heatherley notes as a 
previously “unrecorded fact that after the first 
few days the falcon turned over to the tiercel the 
duties of her sex, spending his time abroad hunt- 
ing and bringing the quarry to the tiercel who 
remained at home to feed and look after the 
young.” As the book is one of the series of 
studies issued by Country Life, it is needless to 
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From ‘‘The Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie.” 
chapters are given up to nature photography and 
how to photograph small objects. A specimen 
nature calendar, with the chief notabilia for eack 
month of the year, partly filled up and left to 
be completed by the reader, is included. So far 
as sampled, the information is accurate, and| 
is conveyed in language understandable by those 
for whom the book is designed. Some of the} | 
photographic reproductions might be improved] 
upon. | 
(8) A book on the ocean by Sir John Murray 
