266 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Sea Eagle (Haliatus albicilla) was soaring far up in the dusky sky, and 
Golden-eyed Ducks, Great Northern Divers, Terns, Mergansers, Guillemots, 
Cormorants, Razorbills, and hosts of other species too numerous to name, 
made the sea and air dark with their ever-moving forms. Such an 
ornithological treat is not often to be obtained, and we stood on deck for a 
long time watching, with the greatest interest, the varied forms of life 
around the ship, which often had to be put at reduced speed in the narrow 
fjords to give the birds time to hurry their young broods out of danger of 
being run down. As we progressed northward, the vast flocks of Eider- 
Ducks seemed ever to increase, and so great were the crowds of the female 
birds upon some of the numerous islets, that their brown forms perfectly 
covered the rocks, and they themselves were hardly distinguishable from 
the tangled masses of dark sea-weed.” 
A useful portion of Capt. Kennedy’s book is the Appendix, con- 
taining particulars of his expenditure on his tour, which occupied 
six weeks. During this time he estimates that he travelled as 
nearly as possible five thousand English miles. These details will 
be useful to future travellers who may make the same tour, as 
will also the route-map which is given at the end of the volume. 
Some of the illustrations are prettily designed, the Long-tailed 
Ducks (p. 114), and the “ Seals at home” (p. 168) being especially 
characteristic and natural in outline. 
Camp Life and Sport in South Africa. By 'T. J. Lucas, late 
Captain Cape Mounted Rifles. 8vo, pp. 258, with coloured 
Illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall. 1878. 
Ir might reasonably be doubted, on taking up this volume, 
whether anything remained to be said on the subject of South 
Africa, after all that has already been published on this fertile 
theme. It is not very long since Mr. Anthony Trollope presented 
us with two thick volumes of South African experiences ; and his 
well-known thoroughness might be thought to have exhausted all 
the ordinary topics of interest in that direction, Captain Lucas’s 
view of the country, however, has been taken from a different 
stand-peint. Unlike Mr. Trollope, whose sojourn there was com- 
paratively short, and who, like many another visitor, wrote merely 
from first impressions, Captain Lucas’s residence of nearly fifteen 
years has enabled him to form a more mature and probably 
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