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A few typographical errors should be corrected, as for 

 instance, Saxicolo (p. 24), Cole (p. 29), pipet (p. 33), melanoce- 

 phala (p. 35), which is not the right name for the Eeed Bunting, 

 dikes (p. 48), scull (p. 59), gargany (p. 71), and Podiceps (pp. 76, 

 77), which, following Linnaeus, should be Podicipcs. This was 

 pointed out by Professor Newton in a footnote to Babington's 

 'Birds of Suffolk,' 1886 (p. 200), and has since been generally 

 and very properly adopted by ornithologists. The paragraph 

 relating to the " African Whydah Finch" (p. 39) should be 

 deleted, this bird having no possible claim to recognition as a 

 visitor to this country, otherwise than through man's agency. 



The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its Islands. By the Rev. Murray 

 A. Mathew, M.A., F.L.S. 8vo. Pp. i— Hi ; 1—131. 

 With Illustrations and Maps. London : R. H. Porter. 

 1894. 



The avifauna of the Welsh counties has long stood in need 

 of investigation by some skilled ornithologist, and Mr. Mathew 

 has done good service by publishing the result of his obser- 

 vations made during eight years' residence in Pembrokeshire. 

 Indeed, had not the accident of ill-health compelled him to 

 sojourn there, on account of the healthiness of the climate, it is 

 more than probable that we should still be without any connected 

 account of Pembrokeshire birds. 



It is scarcely correct, we think, to state, as our author does in 

 his "Introduction " (p. xiii), that "there are no Welsh ornitho- 

 logists who lived earlier than the present century." We have 

 some dim recollection of having read in an early volume of the 

 'Philosophical Transactions' some letters by Edward Lhwyd, 

 written about 1695, containing observations in Natural History 

 made during his travels through Wales and Scotland ; but 

 writing at this moment amongst the beautiful woody vales and 

 snow-capped peaks of Carnarvonshire, far away from all note- 

 books, except the one in use, we are unable to state precisely the 

 nature of the observations in question, further than that they 

 had reference to, amongst other things, Blackgame, Storks and 

 Crossbills in Pembrokeshire. The Stork has no place in 

 Mr. Mathew's list, and the Black Grouse has long been extinct, 



