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BRITISH BIRDS. 
An | Illustrated Manual | of | British Birds, | | By | Howard 
Saunders, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. | Second Edition, Pics d. | With 
illustrations of nearly every species. | [Publishers’ monogram] | London: 
| Gurney & Jackson, 1, Paterno en ow. | (Successors to Mr. Van Voorst.) 
| To be completed in twenty part 
Of this standard work in its new edition we have received 
eight parts, published in the months November 1897 to June 
1898, and we are indebted to the publishers for the loan of one 
of the cuts, which 
eee to readers 
e Naturalist,’ 
inasmuch as it is 
from the 2? example 
of the Greenish 
Willow - Warbler 
(Phyvlloscopus vtrt- 
danus Blyth) which 
Me oO. H. Caton 
The Greenish Bevhonide? S mek (Phy Iloscopus mak mer? ri a 
; oh}, Cotes, Lincolnshire, 
jridan. 
Shot at North Cotes, ua cil 5th Sept. 1896, by On the 5th Sept. 1896. 
2 Caton Tinie. The book itself is 
So well known and so classic a work as to need but few 
words to commend this second editi to the notice of our 
readers cessity of condensation requisite to include 
ll the British birds in a single volume a s but a single 
leaf of two pages to each species, and it need hardly be sai 
that Mr. Howard Saunders utilizes the sp he greatest 
advantage. The publishers are t ongratulated on the 
excellence of the turn-out of the work, and we look forward 
to noticing the succeeding parts as they appear. 
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NOTE—GEOLOGY. 
Glacial Boulders in Swaleda le.—When at casigeew yond Castle a few 
da 7S ago, I noticed in the inside curtain-wall, between the ancient oratory 
of St. Nicholas and ons ba ig oe ho e ga piste, a boulder of basalt 
i non t Z ivec 
e Tees 
Out of the local drift a split fora Seuitatone by the Nonnay or Breto: 
ork Oo 
with several boulders of the same stone, one of t , he says, being ‘as 
fouch asf S two men could lift. "HARRY SPEIGHT, sain, 28th July 1898. 
oe. 1868. 
Do aera meet a, 
? Sas ae i} 
