496 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Brambling to illustrate White’s remarks on the Snow Bunting. 
Why figures of such birds as the Knot and the Puffin, of which 
no mention is made by White, should be.introduced (pp. 69, 71), 
we cannot say. 
We make these remarks in no spirit of unfriendly criticism, 
but rather in that spirit of acewracy which especially characterises 
the writings of Gilbert White, and which all writers on Natural 
History would do well to emulate. 
Ostriches and Ostrich Farming. By JuLius DE MosentHan and 
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