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looked at the bird with ray glass, and, alas ! satisfied myself (!!) 

 that it was Pious tridactylus ; but the moment I saw the beautiful 

 eggs brought to daylight I suspected an error, and went back to 

 the boat to fetch my gun, and shot the bird. It turned out to 

 be, as I anticipated, P. minor." Even now we can read with 

 enthusiasm the facts as to the breeding habits of the Waxwing 

 (Ampelis garrulus), which Wolley was the first to master and 

 describe; while we are told that up to the time of his departure 

 for Lapland in 1853 considerable uncertainty remained as to the 

 colouration of the Redwing's egg. 



It will interest aviculturists to learn that the same observer 

 noticed in a wild Snow-Bunting {Plectrophanes nivalis) that 

 " she was suffering badly from a distressing complaint, well 

 known to those who keep birds in confinement as ' asthma.' " 



References also recur to some well-known names of those 

 now with us no more. We read of Salvin, and he is gone. 

 Hewitson also is mentioned as a good oologist, and it is probable 

 that his reputation as such will outlast his notoriety as a famous 

 butterfly collector and monographer, a pursuit which occupied 

 all the last years of his life. Altogether the notes in this volume 

 constitute sufficient material for a whole series of modern books 

 on birds, and, the editing being done by Prof. Newton, the 

 records require no further elucidation. There are four coloured 

 plates of eggs, four plates depicting boreal scenes, a portrait of 

 Wolley, and one of L. M. Knoblock, who seems to have been 

 a conscientious professional collector, with a first-hand know- 

 ledge of birds. 



Zoological Results, based on Material from Neiv Britain, Neiv 

 Guinea, Loyalty Islands, and elsewhere, collected during 

 the Years 1895-97 by Arthur Willey, D.Sc Lond., &c. 

 Part VI. Cambridge : at the University Press. 



This part is the concluding publication detailing the results 

 obtained by a memorable expedition ; for when the Managers of 

 the Balfour Studentship in the University of Cambridge can 

 despatch an expedition with the avowed object of procuring 

 material for the study of the embryonic development of the 

 Pearly Nautilus, we may safely realize that the real biological 



