158 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
A Guide to the Botany, Ornithology, and Geology of Shrewsbury 
and its Vicinity. The Botany by W. Puttures, F.L.S.; 
the Ornithology by W. E. Brcxwiru; the Geology by 
C. Carnaway, M.A., F.G.8. 12mo, pp. 65. Shrewsbury: 
Bunny and Davis. 
Tue first twenty-six pages of this little work are occupied 
with a list of the Flowering Plants and Ferns found within a 
radius of five miles round Shrewsbury. In the preparation of 
this list the author acknowledges his indebtedness to a larger 
work, ‘The Flora of Shrewsbury,’ by the Rey. W. A. Leighton, 
and states that for several years past he has made it his 
business to verify the records of plants mentioned in that book, 
which he has found to be very correct. As might naturally be 
expected he has been able to add several new localities for some 
of the plants, and has had to point out a few instances in which 
agricultural improvements have destroyed old habitats. In the 
present list, with a view to economise space, all common species 
are merely named, while the rarer species have the localities 
appended. 
Mr. Beckwith’s List of Birds, which follows, oceupies about 
eight pages, and includes only those which have been observed 
within five or six miles of Shrewsbury—in all 165 out of 218 found 
in the county of Salop. Amongst the rarer birds, Mr. Beckwith 
includes the Red-footed Falcon, Lapland Bunting, Richard’s 
Pipit, Rose-coloured Pastor, Glossy Ibis, and Sabine’s Gull. 
He remarks that the Nightingale ‘has been heard near Meole 
and in other places within the last few years”; that the Red- 
legged Partridge has once been killed near Charlton Hill in 1878; 
and that the Pochard and Tufted Duck, having been observed on 
Almond and Bomere Pools in the third week of April, possibly 
breed in the neighbourhood. There is a heronry consisting of 
thirty or forty nests at Attingham, where they are strictly 
preserved by Lord Berwick. 
The remaining pages are devoted to a sketch of the Geology 
of Shropshire, in which the author, Mr. Callaway, endeavours to 
remove some of the misconception which has prevailed in regard 
to the ‘“‘ Pre-Cumbrian Volcanic Series,’ and notices the chief 
elevations in detail. At page 50 he gives a list of Cumbrian 
Fossils of Shropshire, most of which are comparatively new to 
