488 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



It is thus addressed more to the aviculturist than to the strict 

 ornithologist, though the division between these two students is 

 very difficult to maintain. A live bird must necessarily afford 

 more information than a preserved skin ; on the other hand, the 

 opportunities of acquiring the first are infinitesimal compared with 

 the vast available material of the second. Consequently we must 

 look to the cabinet ornithologist for our general knowledge, and 

 to the field naturalist and the aviculturist for bionomical infor- 

 mation. Mr. Finn has provided an excellent help to those who 

 wish to keep waterfowl — we must plead guilty to a strong dislike 

 of the word " Fancy " ; and his knowledge of zoology and position 

 in the Indian Museum entitle him to write as one in authority, 

 and not as the " Fanciers." 



Church Stretton : Geology, by E. S. Cobbold ; Macro-Lepi- 

 doptera, by F. B. Newnham ; Molluscs, by R. A. Buddicom. 

 Edited by C. W. Campbell- Hyslop. Shrewsbury : L. 

 Wilding, printer. 



This is the first instalment of a series of monographs relating 

 to Church Stretton, of which those on Botany, Archaeology, 

 Climatology, and Ornithology are in preparation, and will appear 

 subsequently. 



This neighbourhood was described by J. G. Jeffreys as " the 

 picturesque locality of Stretton in Shropshire"; and Mr. Newn- 

 ham refers to it as " a district of hill and dale, of moorland, wood, 

 and stream." Consequently it is a spot worthy of a local natural 

 historian, and when a body of naturalists unite to describe its 

 fauna, flora, geology, and other natural features, and do so in an 

 exhaustive manner, we recognize a very useful addition to British 

 natural history. 



