Pt. 
y 
Miscellaneous. 56) 
than give us a mere list of detailed occurrences of rare birds or 
bald commonplace statements of facts concerning residents, for 
field-notes of an extremely interesting character are copiously dis- 
tributed throughout its pages. 
Our avifauna, from various causes, is being slowly depleted, and 
no one, turning over the pages of the volume, can fail to realize that 
we owe Mr. Harting a great deal for having rescued from oblivion 
facts of the greatest interest concerning many species which have long 
since ceased to be more than occasional visitors to our shores, but 
which were at one time very common birds. Scarcely less valuable 
are the notes on the derivation of the names of birds, such as the 
Capercaillie, Solan Goose, Reeve, and Spoonbill, for instance; for 
they represent much laborious research in fields inaccessible to most 
of us. 
The book is well bound and well printed, and furthermore is 
illustrated by 35 Plates giving coloured figures of the heads (and 
outlines, in many cases, of the feet) of most of our British birds. 
We cannot but feel that they could be very well dispensed with and 
so reduce the cost of the work; if they are to be retained more must 
be added, so that all the undoubted residents at least are included, 
and several more representing immature plumages must be added. 
Most of the figures are exceedingly good, some are exceedingly bad: 
none were drawn specially for the work, and all have appeared 
before in a Dutch work: finally, they were not drawn (save one 
or two) by Schlegel, as is stated on the titlepage, but by Keulemans. 
As to their arrangement, we venture to think it would have been 
better to place them all together at the end of the volume, instead 
of distributing them between every ten pages or so. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Moore's ‘ Lepidoptera Indica.’ 
To the Editors of the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History.’ 
GENTLEMEN,—Enquiries having reached mefor a continuation of 
my notes on this book (‘ Annals,’ Dec. 1894), I beg to enclose you 
the information desired by my correspondents, as it is of general 
public service. As the parts are supplied direct by the publisher to 
the Museum, the dates of receipt here given may be regarded as 
within a few. days of the actual date of publication. 
Received by the 
Brit. Mus. (N. H.). 
XX. pp. 177-192. 14 Jan. 1895. 
XXI. 193-208. GEAprs 95: 
XXII. 209-232. S July >, | Not 18 Mar: 
. stated on p. 
OTE: 233-248, 20 Septye so0 9 Not LOM Apr: 
stated on p. 
1895, as 
209! 
1895, as 
2de0 ! 
