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sides of the vessel are carried up to a height of seven inches from the 
base, which is protected by four knobs. Within two inches of the top 
are four small projections, on which rests an inner lid perforated. _ It 
is surmounted by a second lid, which drops over the sides, between 
which and the first-named lid specimens can be packed in sea-weed, 
the bottom being filled with water up to within an inch of the inner 
lid. It is carried by means of a brass wire handle passing over the 
ends longitudinally. It is not expensive in cost, and with care (as 
the enamel is apt to chip off) will last a long while. I shall be very 
happy to give the name of the maker to any naturalist who may wish 
for such a handy little article as I have found it to be in my wan- 
derings. 
W. R. Hueues. 
The General Hospital, Birmingham, 
October 13, 1864. 
Notices or New Booxs. 
‘The Birds of India; being a Natural History of all the Birds 
known to inhabit Continental India” By T. C. Jervon. In 
two Volumes. Vol. II.; Part 1. Royal 8vo.; 439 pp. 
(Second notice of the work). 
- In the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1863 (Zool. 8617) will be found a notice of 
the first volume of Jerdon’s ‘ Birds of India, and if my reader will 
excuse the egotism implied in my referring him to my own labours, I 
will beg of him to skim over, however lightly, what I have written of 
this valuable work, certainly one of the most important contributions 
to Natural History India has yet produced; and having so skimmed 
that first notice, to consider it as a prelude to a second and third: 
unless so regarded both that notice and the present one must be con- 
sidered incomplete, inasmuch as the work of which it. treats is 
incomplete also. The ‘ Birds of India’ is now before us in its entirety, 
and it becomes unecessary to continue, and I trust,very shortly to com- 
plete, my notice also. The work itself bears witness to the profound 
research and unwearied industry of its author, and will be the authority 
on the Ornithology of India for years. I am little skilled in that. set 
form of panegyric which constitutes the literary stock in trade of 
reviewers in general when writing on Natural History. Handsome 
volumes are placed in their hands, and handsome things must therefore 
