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ANIMALS OF NO IMPORTANCE. *


This book consists of a series of sketches that have

appeared in The Times of Indict and the Indian Daily Telegraph ,

dealing with the well-known Indian animals. The birds, very

naturally, come in for the greater share of the author’s attention,

and his articles on the Indian Crow, the Cuckoo, the Drongo or

the Mynah will be read with great interest by bird lovers.


Some idea of the style of this book may be derived from

the dedication on the fly leaf:—


I dedicate this book to

CORVUS SPLENDENS, Esouire,


The Grey-necked Crow,


Most clever and cunning of birds, zuho disturbs my

morning slumbers, zuho converts into a playgivund

the back of my unresisting mare, who devours my

choicest fruit as it ripens on the tree , zuho steals every

portable object upon luhich he can lay his claws, but

zuho, as a set off to his misdeeds, has afforded me

much amusement.


Mr. Dewar is one of those students of nature who finds

something of natural history worth studying wherever he happens

to be, whether at sea on the voyage from England to India, in

his Bungalow, beside a small stagnant pool or in the jungle; he

is quite happy whether watching birds, mammals, insects, reptiles

or spiders. It is difficult to say which of his sketches is the

most delightful.



“ I GO A-WALKING.” f


Sucli is the title of a book that is to be completed in six

parts. It describes a country ramble and the birds met with.

In Part I., which is now before us, the Author takes his reader a

walk “ through the Country Lanes,” and in the five parts to come

the walk will be continued “ Through the Meadows,” “ By the

Stream and Lake,” “Through the Woods,” “ O’er the Moor,”

and “ Home-wards.”



* Animals of No Importance, by D. Dewar. Condon : Thacker & Co., 2, Creed Lane, E C.


r I go A-Walking through the Country Lanes. Compiled from “British Birds and

their haunts,” by Rev. C. A. Johns, B.A., F.L.S., and other works. Illustrated from

photos by Cras. Reid Wishaw. Part I., price 6d. T. N. Foulis, 3, Frederick Street,

Edinburgh, and London.



