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and streams; while the enumeration of 116 out of 196 marine 
species testifies to the assiduous inquiries and investigations 
which have been made by the authors in the preparation of their 
useful Handbook. 
Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn 
of 1880. By Joun A. Harvie Brown, Joun Corpraux, 
and Pumip M. C. Kermopr. 8vo, pp. 120. London: 
Sonnenschein & Allen. 1881. 
Ir will be in the recollection of our readers that in ‘The 
Zoologist’ for May, 1880, Messrs. Harvie Brown and Cordeaux 
published their first Report on the results of a scheme which 
they had organised the previous year for eliciting reliable evidence 
from trustworthy observers on the coast concerning the arrival 
and departure of migratory birds. By means of printed forms of 
inquiry and letters of instructions addressed to the keepers of 
lighthouses and light-ships on the East and West Coasts of 
Scotland, and the East Coast of England, they obtained a 
series of interesting observations which, being properly grouped 
and arranged, were embodied in the Report referred to. During 
the year 1880 the scheme was continued, the field of their labours 
was enlarged, and they were fortunate in securing the co-operation 
of Mr. Philip M. C. Kermode, of Douglas, Isle of Man, who 
undertook the collection of statistics on the West Coast of 
England. The result of their combined labours has just appeared 
in the shape of an octavo pamphlet of 120 pages, entitled as 
above, and reflects the greatest credit upon its authors. The 
continuous correspondence which the collection of these statistics 
has evidently entailed, and the time which must have been 
expended in transcribing and arranging them, betokens an 
amount of industry which none but the most zealous workers 
in Ornithology would have cared to bestow. It is to be hoped 
that these efforts in the cause of science will be properly appre- 
ciated, and receive the support of ornithologists throughout the 
country, so that, by means of the statistics thus carefully collected 
and summarised, we may some day arrive at a satisfactory solution 
of the many interesting questions which affect the subject of the 
migration of birds. 
