THE ZOOLOGIST 



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1871 



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The Birds of Norfolk ; tvith Remarks on their Hahils, Migration 

 and Local Distrihution. By Henry Stevenson, F.L.S, In 

 three volumes. Vol. II. John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. 

 1870. 450 pp. demy 8ro, and three litho. plates. Price 

 ten shillings. 



If my readers will take the trouble to turn to p. 747 of the 

 present series of the « Zoologist,' they will find that I have fully 

 expressed my favourable ojnnion of Mr. Stevenson's ' Birds of 

 Norfolk.' Every word I then wrote, every opinion I then expressed, 

 is abundantly confirmed by this second volume; indeed, the 

 author's careful, and as they may be called exhaustive, researches 

 seem to become more and more apparent as he proceeds with his 

 labours, and as they culminate towards completion. Nevertheless 

 I must confess to feeling considerable disappointment from two 

 causes; first, the length of time that has been suffered to elapse 

 between the publication of the first and second volumes; and 

 secondly, the announcement, so evidently a matter of fact, that 

 the work is still incomplete, the water birds being reserved for 

 a third volume, which has yet to make its appearance. There 

 can be no doubt of Mr. Stevenson's original intention of com- 

 pleting his 'Birds of Norfolk' in two volumes, as announced on 

 the title-page of the part previously published, where the work 

 is said to consist of two volumes, of which that was the first. 

 Mr. Stevenson, however, thinks himself compelled by the in- 

 crease of materials before him to depart from this intention, as 



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