240 REVIEW: COLOURED FIGURES OF BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA, 
Daulias luscinia (Linnexus). Nightingale. In the second 
week of June I saw an old bird, with a caterpillar in its bill, in 
a thicket by the roadside about two miles from Filey, and within 
a few feet also a bird of the year, 
Caprimulgus europzus Linneus. Nightjar. On June 15th 
I received a female Nightjar alive, which came on board the 
s.s. ‘Rupert’ one hundred and ten miles eastward of the Spurn. 
June 30th, 1897. 
COLOURED FIGURES OF BRITISH 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Our Country’s | Butterflies & Moths | and | How to Know Them. | 
A Guide to the Lepidoptera of Great Britain. | By | W. J- GonnOn 
author of | ‘Our Country’s Birds,” ‘‘ Our Country’s Flowers,” | etc. | wit 
a thousand Examples in Colour by | H. Lynn. [ and many original eet 
| London: | Day&Son . . .|. . .{|. . ~ | [Crown 8vo, cloth, 
price 6s., viii. +150 pages + 32 plates.] 
insects which they are stated to represent. : 
It is difficult to criticise the text, for while we can fully recognise 
with appreciation the excellence of the aims of the author and f 
a certain extent of the plan on which he works, we cannot help bu 
wish that the execution of the task had been put in the hands ca 
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while the keys given are. only a clue to families and genera. 
arrangement of the book is as follows :—Chap. 1 gives t 
names (we hope the author has not invented any) ; Chap- 
alphabetical index of specific names ; Chap. 3 is a syst 
the species figured ; Chap. 4 bears the strange title of ‘sorta A 
which we presume is meant classification, but which seems t0 fe : 
the author to be a Scot; Chap. 6 treats of groups and a oa 
Chap. 7 is a table of characters of families and their genera, 
Chap. 8 is a similar one of genera and their species. 
We regret to see that : is no clue in the book to its date * 
publication, which we believe to be in 1896. 
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