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an unavoidable sameness in most descriptions of the 12th August 
or the lst September. But this is made amends for by the account 
which is furnished of the sport to be obtained in the marshes or at 
the mouths of tidal rivers, and various shooting excursions in 
different parts of the Continent. 
The chapter on catching Foxes in France for the English 
market (vol. ii., p. 49) will have an interest for those who prefer 
hunting to shooting, while the concluding chapters in the second 
volume on sea-fishing will furnish amusement to all lovers of the 
long-line. 
Although the author is a keen sportsman, and evidently a good 
shot, we infer from his book that he is no naturalist, for we miss 
the accuracy that would characterise a close observer of Nature 
in many passages wherein he fails to discriminate the species 
of birds shot by him, while he makes no note of their peculiarities 
of habit, call or flight. Some attention to these points we think 
would have heightened the value of the book in the eyes of many 
readers. 
We should have been glad also to have seen a list of the 
provincial names of birds, with the localities in which the same are 
in use, and which “ Wildfowler,” from his many opportunities, 
might well have furnished. Visitors to the coast, even naturalists 
of some experience, are now and then puzzled to identify a bird 
from its local name without actual examination of a specimen; and 
a curious collection of such names might be made from the 
vocabularies of local fishermen and professional gunners. We 
throw ont this hint for the consideration of some of our readers. 
Field Paths and Green Lanes: being Country Walks, chiefly 
in Surrey and Sussex. By Louis J. Jennines. Illustrated 
with Sketches by J. W. Waymper. London: John Murray. 
1877. 293 pp. 
THE author of this entertaining work well observes, “To anyone 
who has eyes, there is much to see in this small but infinitely 
varied England, so much that, as Emerson says, to see it well 
‘needs a hundred years.’” He has done, therefore, acceptable 
service, which will be recognized and acknowledged by many a 
