THE ZOOLOGIST 
FOR 
Hotices of Ae Books, 
The Birds of Shetland, with Observations on their Habits, 
Migration and Occasional Appearance. By the late HENRY 
L. Saxsy, M.D., of Balta Sound, Unst. Edited by his 
Brother, STEPHEN H. Saxsy, M.A., Vicar of East Clevedon, 
Somerset. Demy 8vo, 398 pp. letterpress, eight tinted litho. 
plates. Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart. London: 
Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1874. 
(THIRD AND concLUDING Notice.) 
A FEW particulars of a church-going swan are so much to my 
mind that I cannot forbear quoting them, although I greatly fear 
they will be considered trifling by my more erudite correspondents. 
It is impossible to meet every taste, for while one revels in the 
changing of scientific names and devoutly believes himself a 
philosopher, another is equally attached to the Gilbert-White 
phase of Natural History, and delights in reading of living birds 
and of what they do and how they behave themselves, entirely 
careless of their scientific appellations. The ‘Zoologist’ has 
‘committed itself to this latter-school, and therefore swan-biography 
is permissible. How the swan came to possess a taste for theology 
and the innumerable heads into which a sound Scotch divine will 
occasionally divide his sermon, | cannot say, and will not attempt 
to discover: I give the story as I receive it. 
A fisherman one morning, on emerging from his dormitory in 
the island of Yell, and looking out to sea, as was his custom, 
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