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Birds’ Eggs of the British Isles.—Messrs.’ Brumby & Clarke, the 
well-known colour printers, Hull, have drawn our attention to the volume 
they issued some little time ago under the above title. This contains the 24 
beautiful plates of birds’ eggs which appeared in the larger work, ‘ British 
Birds with their Nests and Eggs ;’ and in their present form will appeal to 
those who are more particularly interested in eggs than birds, or who do not 
care to pay the price of the larger work for the sake of the illustrations of 
the eggs. Mr. A. G. Butler has written a hundred quarto pages of 
descriptive letterpress, and the drawings are by Mr. F. W. Frohawk, 
‘ whose work is so well known. The figures will particularly appeal to the 
collector from the wonderful varieties of eggs shown—some of these being 
most unusual; the eggs of the black-bird, for instance, being represented by 
eight extraordinary varieties. There are in all 472 illustrations, and the 
price of a guinea is not out of the way. In his introduction Mr. Butler 
. gives some useful hints on the preparation of specimens for the cabinet. 
Wild Life at Home: How to Study and Photograph it, by R. Kearton, 
F.Z.S. Cassell & Co., 204 pp. New and revised edition, 1907. Price 6/- 
A further edition of this well illustrated volume is evidence of its popularity. 
Gulls Feeding.—A scramble for breakfast. 
(From ‘Wild Life at Home.’) 
The work of the brothers Kearton is well known to our readers. The 
present edition has been revised, and the illustrations, type, paper, and 
_ binding are uniformly excellent. We are permitted to reproduce one of the 
illustrations herewith. 
Birds and their Nests and Eggs, by G H. Vos. London, G. 
Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 148 pp. and numerous illustrations. Price 1/. 
This well printed and cloth bound volume is the cheapest of its kind that 
we have seen for some time, and will be very suitable fora prize book for 
young naturalists. The photographs are mostly good, though the method 
of sticking badly stuffed birds in their more or less natural surroundings and 
photographing them is not very desirable, especially as in so many cases 
any schoolboy can ‘spot’ the artificial twig upon which the bird is perched ; 
on p. 41 the starling, which ‘is a well got up and groomed gentleman at all 
times of the year,’ certainly belies this description, though possibly the 
specimen figured has suffered through being carried in the photographer's 
pocket! The photographs of eggs at the end of the volume are of little 
value except for showing the relative sizes of the eggs. 
1907 July 1. 
