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and blackbeetles, taking them out of his hand without any sign 

 of timidity. On two occasions it flew out of the park, and when 

 called returned at once, and flew to the hand of the servant who 

 fed it. It invariably flew to the sides of the aviary when anyone 

 went near, and uttered a little plaintive cry, as if asking for a 

 tit-bit. When any one came down in the morning it would say 

 "good morning" by uttering a noise like hoo-hoo, at the same 

 time inflating its throat to produce the sound. 



As regards the illustrations to this little book twenty wood- 

 cuts only are given, the best being copies from Bewick's familiar 

 work ; but as a series they do not strike us as being sufficiently 

 representative, for we note that there is not a single game-bird, 

 pigeon, rail, gull, or tern, figured, and only one wader, the Kuff. 

 In any subsequent edition, whatever new cuts may be added, the 

 publishers would do well to omit the atrocious figures of the so- 

 called Great Grey Shrike, Hawfinch, and Crossbill, which only 

 libel the beautiful species which they are supposed to represent. 



A Catalogue of Local Lists of British Birds : arranged under 

 Counties. By Miller Christy, F.L.S. 8vo, pp. 42. 

 London : K. H. Porter. 1891. 



It will be recollected that in ' The Zoologist ' for July, 1890, 

 Mr. Miller Christy published what no doubt he intended to be con- 

 sidered a tentative List with the above title. It contained about 275 

 entries. The result of this publication was to bring the author 

 180 more titles, showing the great interest which the List evoked, 

 and the extensive literature which has been found to exist on this 

 particular subject. Mr. Christy has now been public-spirited 

 enough to reprint his Catalogue with all the additions received, 

 and numerous emendations, making it as complete as possible, 

 and we do not hesitate to say that it is not only an extremely 

 useful compilation, but for those working at British Ornithology 

 a really indispensable guide. The moderate price at which it is 

 issued (a couple of shillings) places it at once within everybody's 

 reach. 



Mr. Christy states, in his introductory remarks, that in every 

 case the titles of the volumes, or articles, entered in his biblio- 

 graphy have been taken direct from the works themselves, and 

 have not been obtained second-hand, except in those few instances 

 in which he has been careful to state that he had not seen them. 



