36 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



are passed over by the ordinary collector ; so that it is still 

 probable for the present enumeration to be extended. If in- 

 structions were given for these small birds to be sent home in 

 spirit much more would be known about them ; for the tired 

 waggon-traveller to keep awake and skin these small creatures 

 is a thing to be hoped for rather than expected. In all orders, 

 the smaller the species the more difficult to acquire — at least, 

 in South Africa, where many a good sportsman, both Boer 

 and Briton, will cheerfully take the trouble to procure you an 

 animal of size, but will resent being asked to collect and skin 

 Warblers. 



We have heard of pianos accompanying our military columns 

 to help while away the monotonous expeditions over a lonely veld. 

 We would propose that this series of faunistic books should be 

 supplied to every mess-room, whether peripatetic or otherwise. 

 They are volumes that will be appreciated by every naturalist in 

 our South African colonies, and especially by our military men 

 who are now traversing the whole of a region yet somewhat im- 

 perfectly known to ornithologists. 



Photography for Naturalists. By Douglas English. 

 Iliffe & Sons, Limited. 



Nature is ever seeking to be revealed. Sometimes she 

 appears in the verse of Wordsworth, on another occasion in the 

 magic prose of Ruskin, while painters have even often attempted 

 to improve her on the inspiration of successive schools of art. 

 Among naturalists a higher criticism is arising, a desire to see 

 her portrayed as she is, or as she is to our perceptions. Photo- 

 graphy is now invoked by the zoologist rather than the handwork 

 of the artist, and the results, great as they are now, exhibit 

 a still greater potentiality in the future. The present volume is 

 designed as a means to that end, though it largely advocates a 

 photography of natural objects " by control" — in other words, to 

 photograph animals in captivity after making the artificial sur- 

 roundings to look as natural as possible. This we consider a 

 retrograde step, and one photo of an animal at large, and 

 unaware of the attentions of the camera enthusiast, must surely 



