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tllleswater and a catalogue of Cumberland plants for Hutchinson's 

 'History of Cumberland' (1794—97); John Gough, of Kendal, 

 and his son Thomas ; Dr. John Heysham, of Carlisle, the author 

 of a Catalogue of Cumberland Animals (1796-97), and his son 

 Thomas Coulthard Heysham, whose names are well known to 

 ornithologists in connection with observations on certain north- 

 country birds.* 



In the next chapter we have an account of the extinct animals 

 of Lakeland — the Wolf, the Bear, the Wild Boar, the Red-deer 

 and the Beaver, of which last-named species the remains (so far 

 as Westmorland is concerned) have been found but in one locality, 

 namely, in some alluvium in the bottom of the Kessondale Valley, 

 near Clouds. 



" The destruction of wild animals," " Variation of colour in 

 animals," "Bird-fowling" and "Introduced Species," are the 

 titles of the chapters which follow, and which are in turn 

 succeeded by a " Review of the Fauna of Lakeland," which intro- 

 duces us to the general body of the work. Here the Mammals, 

 Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes are dealt with in turn, and at con- 

 siderable length. 



The birds, as might be expected, receive the fullest share of 

 attention, not only on account of the large number of species, 

 but because this class of Vertebrates has been more generally 

 and closely studied. Amongst these are two species of which 

 coloured figures are given — namely, the Isabelline Wheatear, 

 Saxicola isabellina (Riippell), and the Frigate Petrel, Pelagodroma 

 marina (Latham) , both unique of their kind — as accidental visitors 

 to England. The latter, however, having been found dead, and 

 washed up by the tide on Walney Island, may in this way have 

 come from a considerable distance, so that it appears to be rather 

 straining a point to include it as a visitor to a county which in 

 all probability it never saw. However this may be, it is satis- 

 factory to have a good figure of it, with such an account of the 

 species as is here furnished. The bird seems to have a wide 

 range in the southern hemisphere, and it is thought may possibly 

 breed in the Canary Islands. 



* T. C. Heysham's copy of Montagu's 'Ornithological Dictionary,' 

 bearing his book-plate, has been on the Editor's book-shelves for the last 

 five-and-twenty years, but contains no annotations. 



