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cheeks, back, wings, and tail of turquoise-blue; throat and

underparts of clean lemon-yellow; with a band of delicate orange

across the breast ! His mate who follows him so faithfully and

listens to his pitiful song so admiring, has the greens and

yellows in softened indistinct lines. Altogether they are charm¬

ing little birds, living in a region where their beauty falls only

upon such unappreciative eyes as those of vultures and coons.”


To Mr. Beebe then belongs the credit of giving to this

beautiful bird an appropriate name, a name by which Mrs. Miller

intends henceforth to call her bird, and by which let us hope it

will be known to aviculturists in this country when some enter¬

prising person takes the trouble to bring home some more of

these delightful birds. The Indigo Bunting (C. cyanea ) a first

cousin to the present species, though a very handsome bird, is a

dull-coloured creature by the side of the exquisite Rainbow

Bunting. D. S-S.



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THE BRITISH WARBLERS.*


The third part of Mr. Eliot Howard’s beautiful work on

the British Warblers is now published, and deals with the Black¬

cap, Pallas’s Willow-Warbler and Radde’s Bush-Warbler. Every

page testifies to the extremely careful observations made by the

author. From the time these migrants reach our shores to the

day they leave Mr. Howard seems to have studied their every

movement, which he graphically describes, and his chapters on

their life history are of absorbing interest to every bird-lover.


The plates are, one and all, most beautifully executed by

Mr. Grbnvold, and are some of the best work that this clever

artist has produced. The attitudes are most life-like, and so

different to the conventional attitudes employed in the majority

of present-day bird illustrations. It would be difficult to praise

too highly the work of either the author, the artist, or the pub¬

lisher.



* 'The British War biers, A history with problems of their lives. By H. Eliot Howard,

F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. Illustrated by Henrik Gronvold. R. H. Porter, 7, Princes Street,

Cavendish Square, W. Part III. Price 21/- net.



