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rather accidental visitors, of Britain, being incorporated. These have already 
been noticed in the ‘ Zoologist,’ but I will recapitulate them here :— 
1. Emberiza rustica, the Rustic Bunting, caught at Brighton on the 
28rd of October, 1867, and now in Mr. Monk’s collection. 
2. Emberiza pusilla, the Little Bunting, also taken at Brighton, on the 
2nd of November, 1864, and also in the possession of Mr. Monk. 
3. Emberiza melanocephala, the Blackheaded Bunting, shot on the Race- 
course at Brighton, November Srd, 1868. I think Prof. Newton has com- 
mitted a grave error in assigning the name of “ Blackheaded Bunting” to a 
new British species, Emberiza scheeniclus being so universally known by 
that name. 
Our Summer Migrants: an Account of the Migratory Birds which pass the 
Summer in the British Islands. By J. KE. Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
Illustrated from Designs by Thomas Bewick. London: Bickers and 
Son, 1, Leicester Square. 1875. 836 pp. demy 8vo. 
This book is very useful and interesting ; the woodcuts (servile copies of 
Bewick) are generally excellent, and I am quite unable to explain the 
accurate manner in which they are reproduced. The process, whatever it 
may be, by which these figures are produced, has the disadvantage of 
perpetuating error as well as truth; thus the short tail of the redbacked 
shrike reappears in all its deformity. Take the volume altogether it is a 
most acceptable addition to our knowledge of British Ornithology, and a very 
pretty book for the drawing-room table. 
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 
showing the Operations, Expenditure, and Condition of the Institution 
for 1874. Washington. 1875. 416 pp. demy 8vo. 
This volume contains an immense amount of matter rather useful than 
ornamental; amongst other papers I would invite especial attention to a 
translation of Arthur Morin’s Essay on ‘‘ Warming and Ventilation,” which 
originally appeared in Paris. We English rather pride ourselves on loving 
comfort, and in support of these ideas we attempt to show that foreigners, 
and especially Frenchmen, have no equivalent for the word: consolation, 
soulagement, assistance, secours—the only translations [ recollect in my old 
French dictionary—certainly fail to convey my idea of a well-ventilated and 
well-warmed apartment, the attainment of which is within reach of a French- 
man, but not of an Englishman. We construct churches, chapels, theatres, 
and indeed private houses, regardless of expense, but utterly regardless 
also of comfort; in these respects our insular prejudice prevents our 
copying anything but fashions from the French, and hence we are debarred 
the advantage of profiting by their example: so we are condemned to live 
in foul air, thorough draughts, stifling heats, piercing cold, and sea-coal 
