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questions of cleaning and repairing. The second portion of the 

 volume is devoted to punt-guns and wildfowl shoulder-guns, and 

 concludes with a useful " glossary of terms." 



A hook so practical in its details commends itself not alone 

 to stay-at-home shooters ; sportsmen who vaay be going abroad, 

 and naturalists who imiy contemplate a collecting tour, will find 

 in it information likely to be of service to them. 



A History of British JSinls. By the late William Yarrell. 

 Fourth Edition, revised to the end of the Picida by Prof. 

 Newton, F.R.S. Continued by Howard Saunders, F.L.S. 

 Part XV. London : Van Voorst. 1882. 



We are glad to see that another part of "Yarrell" has 

 appeared, under the new editorship of Mr. Howard Saunders. 

 This part finishes the J'iridce, with which group (as every 

 ornitbologist will regret) Professor Newton's revision ends. Mr. 

 Saunders has now revised the Pigeons, with several skilful 

 emendations, and has written an entirely new chapter on Pallas's 

 Sand Ci rouse. He gives a resume of the facts connected with the 

 remarkable visitation of this bird to the British Islands in 1863, 

 prefaced with some remarks on the position of the species in the 

 System*/ uriii in, pointing out its structural peculiarities and ap- 

 parent affinities. Referring to the views of previous writers who 

 would class the Sand (irouse, on the one hand, with the Pigeons, 

 on the other hand with the Plovers, he "thinks it advisable, on 

 consideration, to adopt for the Sand Grouse the separate order 

 to which Prof. Huxley gave the name of Pteroclomorpha (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1808, p. 303), subsequently modified by Mr. Sclater 

 to Pterocletes (' Ibis,' 1880, p. 407)." 



The part before us concludes with a portion of the article 

 Capercaillic, in which will be found some interesting remarks on 

 the derivation of the name (as variously spelled " capercaillie," 

 "capercally" and "capercailzie"), and on early notices of the 

 bird by mediaeval writers. 



