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North America, into which no hunting party has ever penetrated, 

 and where the frying pan's capacity of a few isolated prospectors 

 has, so far, measured the destruction of game ; countries where 

 Moose, Caribou, and Antelope- Goat are still unfamiliar with the 

 sight of white-skinned human beings." 



The zoologist will find much worth reading and remembering 

 in the chapters — amongst others — devoted to the Wapiti and 

 the Antelope-Goat (Haplocerus montanus), though he will wish 

 there were even more facts relating to the life-histories of these 

 animals, and less discussion of record heads and antlers, which, 

 after all, pertain more to the fame of the trophies of a hall than 

 to the real treasure of a zoological museum. In fact, these 

 monster heads seem to provoke too much emulation and appa- 

 rent heart-burnings among their fortunate possessors, and the 

 zoological reader may well skip the results of the measuring-tape 

 and enjoy and profit by the beautiful illustrations of the heads 

 themselves. 



This book cannot be pronounced a genial production : there 

 is too much criticism ; scarcely any authority quoted seems free 

 from error of commission or omission, so that we frequently — 

 too frequently — are transported from the beauties of nature to 

 the more confined area of the forum for the purpose of critical 

 discussion. 



The chapter devoted to " The Salmon of the Pacific Slope " 

 contains much information apart from the correction of Dr. 

 Gunther. The reproduction of the instantaneous photograph 

 of a Salmon leaping an eighteen-feet-high fall in Labrador is a 

 charming contribution to art and zoology. 



British Dragonflies (Odonata). By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S, 



L. Upcott Gill. 



Mr. Lucas has found the subject for a much-needed book in 

 British Entomology. The Dragonflies were certainly collected 

 by some, and known to a few, but to the general British zoologist 

 they were little understood, identified with difficulty, and hence 

 — apart from specialists — received scant attention. Their life- 

 histories can only be unravelled by skill and patience ; for the 



