264 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
In his Preface, the author says :— 
“My only excuse for adding another volume to the already long and 
ever-increasing list of Scandinavian travels, is my belief that comparatively 
few of our fellow-countrymen, and more especially of our countrywomen, 
who, year after year, ‘take their pleasure abroad’ by returning each 
successive summer to the familiar Continent, are aware what a splendid 
field is open to them by paying a visit to the glorious scenery of Norway, 
or by pushing still further northward across the Arctic Circle to the wilder 
land of the Laplanders, and the regions lighted by the rays of the midnight 
’ 
sun. 
The whole of this paragraph appears to us to be founded upon 
a misapprehension, for fewer countries are better known than 
Norway ; and after perusing carefully the 422 pages of Capt. Clark 
Kennedy’s volume we have failed to discover that he has anything 
new to tell us about it. On the other hand, a good many pages 
are devoted to matters which have little or no relation to Norway, 
but appertain strictly to the regions of which he only crossed 
the threshold. The description, for instance, of the habits of the 
White Bear (pp. 252—256), and the chase of the Walrus (pp. 257— 
260), taken from Lamont’s well-known volumes, might well have 
been omitted, seeing that neither of these animals came under the 
author’s personal observation, and the long account given of the 
Eider Duck (pp. 197—206) contains no statement with which 
ornithologists are not already familiar through the writings of 
previous authors. 
In some cases Capt. Clark Kennedy’s identification of the species 
of animals mentioned is incorrect ; as, for example, at p.156, where 
he gives the Beaked Whale, or “ Bottle-head,” the name Delphinus 
tursto (or, as he erroneously spells it, ¢ersio), which appertains 
to the Bottle-nosed Dolphin, the scientific name of the 
Bottle-head being AHyperoodon rostratus (Chemnitz): nor is it 
correct to term seals ‘‘Cetacee” (p. 253), nor Cetacea “ fish” 
(p- 295). 
We must do Capt. Clark Kennedy, however, the justice to say 
that there are many pages in his work relating to the Natural 
History of the country visited, which are not only readable but 
entertaining ; and if there is nothing very new in the facts narrated, 
the author has at least succeeded in imparting an air of novelty by 
the pleasant manner in which he has dealt with them. 
