34 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Ornithological Notes from a South London Suburb, 1874-1909. 

 By F. D. PowEE, M.R.C.S. Henry J. Glaisher. 

 Lovers of Nature, condemned to live amid the grim respecta- 

 bility of a London suburb, where even the builder can scarcely 

 find more available sites on which to wreak his activity, may 

 well feel surprised to read in the pages of this book that its 

 author has been able to record the appearance of no fewer than 

 one hundred and twenty-five species of birds at Brixton and its 

 immediate neighbourhood. This is the result of thirty-five 

 years' observation, mostly in the garden attached to his own 

 house, but is in a line of migration, which, if not very marked 

 when the birds are arriving in spring, is most pronounced and 

 unmistakable at the time of the autumn passage. 



The birds are thus enumerated : — 

 I. Eesidents, comprising 29 species. 



IL Summer visitors, numbering 37 species, of which 17 have 

 been found nesting, though only 13 do so now ; 9 are 

 seen only occasionally ; and 6 are reckoned accidental. 

 in. Winter migrants, 18. 



IV. Occasional 24 ; — 9 summer ; 15 autumn and winter. 



V. Accidental 26 ; — 6 summer ; 20 autumn and winter. 



VI. Various, 6 ("all, of course, escapes"). 



This list is already attenuated, for a not inconsiderable 

 number are now disappearing, or have disappeared. 



The "Migration Notes" at the end of this small volume are 

 suggestive and important, and the publication itself shows how 

 Nature can be studied in an urban district. 



The Home-Life of the Spoonbill, the Stork, and some Herons. 

 Photographed and described by Bentley Beetham, F.Z.S. 

 Witherby & Co. 



This is another record of enthusiastic and patient bird- 

 watching, and another example of the great service to ornithology 

 rendered by photography. It is by the aid of these j)ublications 

 that we acquire a personal acquaintance with living birds, and 

 forget for the time the preserved skins which we treasure so 

 carefully and love so well. Mr. Beetham has visited the haunts 



