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typographical errors besides those corrected by the author in his 

 Errata, some of which we should have thought too obvious to 

 have escaped detection: thus we find Mula for Inula (p. 31): 

 Otter Dairs for Otter Davis (p. 88) ; and the curious statement 

 (p. 156), under the head of Curlew, that "now breeding birds 

 may be met with at all seasons." ! Of course the author wrote 

 " uon-breeding birds." 



The single coloured plate, which serves as a frontispiece to 

 this volume, represents a Buff-backed Heron, Ardea bubulcus, in 

 adult plumage. It would have been better to have figured the 

 actual Devonshire specimen which is in immature plumage, and 

 which would have been easily accessible to the artist, since it is 

 preserved in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 



On the whole, considering the richness of the Devonshire 

 avifauna, and the important collections of notes which are known 

 to exist, but which are as yet unpublished, we cannot regard this 

 work as sufficiently comprehensive or adequately dealing with the 

 subject. 



The thanks of ornithologists are certainly due to Mr. 

 Macpherson for the skill with which he has edited the materials 

 placed at his disposal, and for the additions which he has 

 evidently made to the original manuscript ; but we venture to 

 think that critical readers will look forward to the preparation 

 and publication of a better work on the Birds of Devonshire, 

 by someone of greater experience than the author of the present 

 volume. 



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