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excellent picture b}^ Mr. Lydon, representing all five species

(both sexes of the Guttural Finch being figured). It is no easy

task to shew, in black and white, the distinctive characteristics

of such closely allied species, but the artist has succeeded in

shewing this, and we have seldom seen a more satisfactory and

life-like drawing of birds.


There is a short illustrated article on the Arizona Quail,

and one on "Larks and other British Birds in Captivity."


Mr. Camps' article, entitled " My Bird Room," is

apparently a reprint, with some alterations and additions, of one

from his pen which appeared in the Aviadtural Magazine for

December, 1894; a number which has, b}^ the way, long been

out of print. The article was well worth reproducing, and

is made much more interesting by the illustrations wliich now

accompany it.


" The Grey Java Sparrow," by Mr. W. T. Page, is sub-

stantially the same as an article which appeared quite recently

in this Magazine.



Popular Parrakeets : their Breeding and Managetnejit by Amateurs,

by W. T. Greene, M.A., M.D., F.Z.S., Qfc.


In this, his latest work, we find Dr. Greene at his best, and

we can most heartily recommend this practical little book to our

readers. The Introduction contains valuable hints on aviary

building, the selection of nesting boxes, and other matters, and

is followed by chapters on the Budgerigar, Cockatiel, Ring-

necked Parrakeet, Rosella, New Zealand Parrakeet, Turquoisine,

Blossom-headed Parrakeet, and King Parrakeet, while a few

other species are treated of incidentally. " Popular Parrakeets "

seems to have been written with great care, and is commendably

free from the " padding " which often disfigures avicultural

handbooks. Dr. Greene has wisely adopted the nomenclature of

the Catalogue of Birds at the British Museum, and avoids those

discussions on classification which are so out of place in a

popular manual.


The statement that the King Parrakeet belongs to the sub-

family of the Broad-tails must be a slip of the pen.


The illustrations are shocking.


There is a very complete index — a most useful addition to

a book of this sort.



