252 NOTES AND NEWS, 
Why should not Lakeland dwellers in quiet places seek consciously — 
to accommodate it? just as the waller has unconsciously accom- 
modated many other species. Nesting-boxes are extensively used 
by birds in some parts of the continent. I have known, in that 
beautiful Lakeland of Austria, the Selabicoe ages a garden where 
tiny wooden houses erected on tall poles among the shrubs were 
inhabited by various species of birds, the Black Redstart among 
them; and wooden boxes are already used in many English 
gardens, it is pleasant to know. Why should we not try by means 
of this sort to foster the race of Pied Flycatchers, and so associate 
another bird with man? [This suggestion has happily been realised 
during the present summer in adjacent garden-ground, and a Lies 
of youngsters has safely flown from a box. | 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
contemporary the ‘American Monthly Microscopical Journal’ for June 
an rts? in full from our pages Mr. J. Newton Coombe’s account of ‘ Alge 
found at Roche Abbey, July 11th, 1896,’ with due acknowledgment of the source. 
—_——_ Bn} —_ 
Our penenebins naturalist pies are doing excellent work in the nego 
field of — zoology, and we A el = pleased be the report given 
by Mess R. Standen (general), Lionel E. Adams, B.A. (Land and Fresh-water 
Mollusea), Geor rge W. Chaster (Marine eae ate J. Ray Hardy (Coleoptera) 
on the of Rat niin pe and the Ballycastle district, which appear 4 > 
the * Trish: Naturalist’ for July, and of which a reprint lies before us. Mr. Standen's 
notes include some on almost all departments of the fauna, from mamm 
‘The | Concise paepieice |  Netial History | by | R. nee 
SA; F.R.S., V.P.G.S R. Bowdler Sharpe Sela Eh et We . ee 
a 
animal kingdom 4 is pier n Sanest is in systematic order, from Man 
fusori w 
conveyed i : 
i$ no overloading with technical anatomical detail. The use of side-hea ae 
facilitates the consultation of it, and the illustrations, though somewhat may be 
in n finish, will be found useful. “The price is five shillings, and the book pensive 
me 
who desire a general work less cumberso 
a: more Seily tats Wood’s or Lydekker’s well-known books. —_—— 
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