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are especially abundant about tbe hot overflow from the Lake 

 Geyser Basin. The hot water flows for a time on the surface, 

 and Trout may be taken immediately under these currents, and 

 they have also been known to rise to a fly through a hot scalding 

 surface. The Utah Trout not only lives in an alkaline lake, but 

 thrives there, growing to a weight of twelve or more pounds ; 

 while a species of Salmon-Trout (Salmo bathcecetor), found in 

 Lake Crescent, Washington, lives in deep water, in some places 

 over seven hundred feet, and does not come to the surface at any 

 season of the year. 



The illustrations of this book are very beautiful, especially 

 to an old angler who now no longer follows the craft. But 

 these pages promote one considerable reflection, which is, that 

 when fish are less stndied to be hooked, or primarily watched for 

 that purpose, an observant naturalist may find a new field ; we 

 want Gilbert White to follow Isaac Walton. 



The Forests of Upper India and their Inhabitants. By Thomas 

 W. Webber. Edward Arnold. 



Mr. Webber as late Forest Surveyor for the North-West 

 Provinces, and Deputy Conservator of Forests in the Central 

 Provinces and Gorakhpur, has had unlimited opportunities for 

 observing the natural history features of a varied faunistic 

 region ; his official duties frequently took him to little visited 

 spots ; his love of hunting wild game increased his experience, 

 and he has written a book which may be well placed near 

 Hooker's now classical " Himalayan Journals." The narrative, 

 however, is not confined to the forest regions, and some of the 

 most interesting chapters describe a journey to the roof of the 

 world on the Tibetan frontier, an expedition which included the 

 hunting of the Wild Yak (Bos grunniens), and that ancestral 

 Sheep — Ovis amnion. On the mountain slopes near Gurla 

 Mandhata the ground " seemed to be the breeding-place of all 

 the Larks in India. Their nests were so numerous that one ran 

 the chance of treading on them frequently. Indeed, all the birds 

 and (other) animals except the Yaks were quite tame in this 

 strange country. The mother Larks would sit within a yard of 

 your feet, and almost let you put your hand on them, and the 



