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of these 22 are recorded on doubtful evidence, 93 are residents, 
52 winter visitors, 88 summer migrants, 17 chiefly occurring on 
passage in spring and autumn, 47 have occurred accidentally, and 
3 are extinct locally; 148 have been known to breed in the 
district. The Reptiles and Amphibians are naturally not nume- 
rous, but 159 species of Fish are enumerated—27 fresh-water 
and 132 marine. 
Tt will be evident from the above figures that Mr. Forrest has 
had to deal with a fair-sized vertebrate fauna, and he seems to 
have scarcely let a record slip the meshes of his net, supposing 
such a record to bear the imprimatur of authenticity. We have 
not made a microscopical search for errors, nor have we found 
any; one of the printer is corrected by Mr. Forrest himself in 
this issue (ante, p. 77). But we have looked for facts, and abun- 
dantly found them, analysed and well arranged. The book is 
embellished with a number of plates illustrating the haunts of 
different birds in North Wales, and it forms a notable addition 
to our now fast-increasing literature on faunal areas of Britain. 
Birds of Britain. By J. Lewis Bonuorr, M.A., F.L.S., &e. 
Adam & Charles Black. 
In a literary sense no naturalist is so well catered for as the 
British ornithologist, or the individual who is interested in 
British birds. Book follows book, one author inspires another, 
._ the supply is recurrent, and of course the standard is not always 
the same. Mr. Bonhote’s volume, as might be expected, is not 
an ordinary compilation ; it naturally does not reach the high- 
water mark of the late Mr. Howard Saunders’s phenomenal 
condensation in his universally known ‘ Manual,’ but it possesses 
originality and charm. It contains notes and observations 
which have ‘‘been taken at first-hand straight from Nature,” 
and it is illustrated by one hundred coloured plates selected by 
Mr. H. E. Dresser from his ‘ Birds of Europe.’ These features 
will alone distinguish the publication from many other works on 
the same subject, and make it an occupant of our shelves. Here 
at last is a book which will provide another judicious presentation 
to any lover of birds who would yet know more about them. 
