118 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



author could confound a four-toed Lapwing with a three-toed 

 Courser, even in immature plumage, is not easy to understand. 



The Cream-coloured Courser, accordingly, has been struck 

 out of the Lancashire list, but with it, unfortunately, have gone 

 the particulars relating to the bird which did duty for it, and 

 which is reinstated under its right name ! Obviously there are 

 wanting on page 213 some words to the effect that the bird in 

 question, which is in the immature plumage here figured, was 

 shot among a lot of Lapwings near St. Michael's-on~Wyre, about 

 the autumn of 1860, and is now in the possession of Mr. Joseph 

 Frankland, adding his address. 



The White-faced Petrel (Procellaria marina) or Frigate 

 Petrel, as it is styled in Mr. Macpherson's ' Fauna of Lakeland,' 

 where a coloured figure of it is given, appears to have but a very 

 slender claim to recognition as a bird of Lancashire. Found 

 dead and washed up by the tide on Walney Island, it may in this 

 condition have travelled a considerable distance ; so that it 

 appears to be rather straining a point to include it as a visitor to 

 a country which in all probability it never saw. Wilson's Petrel 

 (p. 258) stands upon a different footing, and is not only an 

 occasional wanderer to the British Islands, but probabty occurs 

 much oftener on the west coast of Ireland than is generally 

 supposed. The Eared Grebe (p. 262) is also a genuine addition 

 to the county avifauna, though only a single specimen is reported 

 to have been met with. 



We miss the two coloured plates of the Black-throated 

 Wheatear and the Wall-Creeper, which embellished the first 

 edition. Woodcuts of these two species are substituted, nicely 

 drawn and engraved ; but the tail of the former is too long in 

 proportion to the wings, and is suggestive of a Wagtail rather 

 than a Chat. In the coloured figure of the first edition the 

 proportions are much more correct. 



The folding map of the county is re-issued, with the addition 

 of a little colour here and there at the mouth of the Kibble, 

 the reason for which is not explained. As regards typography, 

 paper, and general " get-up " of the volume, the second edition 

 is much superior to the first, and brings the information as to 

 Lancashire birds well up to date. 



