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its " Kange outside the British Islands." This feature alone 

 would make the book ; it supplies a want long felt, and could 

 not be contributed by a better authority. We do not say it has 

 been unattempted before, but it is here detailed with a fulness 

 and with a method that makes reference very easy, and will 

 enlarge the horizon of many British collectors. "Habits" succeed 

 the last section, and then follow " Nest " and M Eggs." 



Dr. Sharpe in his " Nomenclature " is content to be original, 

 and we share his belief that many opponents of his views on this 

 subject " will be found adopting my nomenclature in the near 

 future." Kevolutionary as some corrections at first appear, espe- 

 cially the employment of identical generic and specific names, 

 reasons, and, we think, good reasons, are given in the preface to 

 the fourth volume, which will well repay perusal. In Fishes 

 Scomber scomber has long been a well* used name for the common 

 Mackerel, and though Scomber scombrus has been shown to be 

 what Linnaeus intended, the use of the incorrect term evidently 

 did not occasion much disquiet to ichthyologists. Thynnus 

 thynnus has also been used for the Tunny. 



These volumes are published at a low price, and possess 

 many coloured plates, which, if not in the highest form of art, 

 are at least trustworthy references. 



British Birds, with their Nests and Eggs. Illustrated by F. W. 

 Frohawk. Vols, i., ii., iii. Hull : Brumby & Clarke, Lim. 



There are some subjects which blossom perennially in lite- 

 rature, and whose interest is never exhausted. An example is 

 afforded in British Zoology by Birds, which, by the number of 

 their students, observers, and collectors, and the almost universal 

 regard they inspire, have long incited the pencil of the artist and 

 the pen of the naturalist, and volume follows volume on their 

 story. In quite recent years we have had a new and revised 

 edition of Yarrell ; Seebohm's volumes devoted both to birds and 

 their eggs; Howard Saunders's well-known and generally fol- 

 lowed Manual; Lord Lilford's magnificent illustrations ; Bowdler 

 Sharpe's contribution to Lloyd's Natural History, not to mention 

 works on the same subject by Hudson, Dixon, and others ; and 

 now there lie before us the first three handsome volumes of this 



