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the aviary is located, morning and night, to feed on the seed

which is placed at their disposal; but if they are nesting they

have chosen trees a long way from their former home. I hear of

their presence in villa gardens as far away as a couple of miles,

two have been seen in the Casino Gardens at Monte Carlo, and I

greatly fear that when the shooting season begins in August so-

called sportsmen may destroy the majority of the pigeons which

are at liberty. William Ingram.


[Of the Crested Pigeons liberated in the London Zoo. we know of at

least two nests actually in the Gardens, and as about forty of these birds

were liberated there are doubtless many other nests in Regent's Park. — Ed.}



REVIEWS.



, BRITISH BIRDS *

The first number of this Magazine, of which we gave a

notice from the prospectus last month, has now appeared. It

contains an important paper by Mr. Howard Saunders on the

" Additions to the List of British Birds since 1899," the date of

publication of the second edition of his excellent " Manual of

British Birds." No less than twenty species have been added to

the list during the eight years that have elapsed since that work

appeared. Mr. P. H. Bahr writes on "The Home Life of the

Osprey " ; Dr. Sclater, "On a supposed new British Tit of the

genus Parus," while Mr. Selous deals with " Nesting habits

observed abroad of some rare British Birds." Some interesting

notes, and a review complete the number.



THE BIRDS OF RUTLAND, f

That every County should have its own ornithological

history written is a step in the direction which leads towards the

solution of the problem of the distribution of our wild birds,

and although general works on British birds are perhaps quite

numerous enough, we welcome new books which deal separately

with each County.


* B?itish Birds, an illtisttuted Magazine devoted to the Birds on the British List.


London : Witherby & Co., 326, High Holborn, monthly, One Shilling net/""---


+ The Birds of Rutland, by C. Reginald Haines, M.A., F.Z.S., etc.

London : R. H. Porter, 7, Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W. Price 7/6.



