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Islands and Wicken Fen are cases in point. The New Forest 

 might well be made another, and if one or two Broads known as 

 resorts of the Bearded Tit, and perhaps some recognized haunt 

 of the Dartford Warbler, were added, there would be no need to 

 meddle with any seaside places, which, after all, are seldom 

 more than temporary stopping-places for the birds." We are 

 not quite sure as to the last view, but are entirely in favour of 

 the first proposition. 



The book is fully illustrated, twelve of the plates being coloured, 

 and doing credit to the reproducers. 



Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary. By Arthur H. Patterson. 



Methuen & Co. 



This is a third book by Mr. Patterson on the fauna of 

 Eastern Norfolk, and is almost entirely devoted to the Breydon 

 estuary behind Great Yarmouth, a tidal water he has known so 

 long and loved so well. In this volume he has probably ex- 

 hausted his note-books, and the readers of ' The Zoologist ' will 

 recognize some narrative that has previously appeared from his 

 pen in these pages. Its great charm and most original feature 

 is the account of the rough, hardy Breydouers who have acquired 

 a more or less precarious living by shooting over and fishing 

 these waters. It also contains much valuable data giving com- 

 parison of the Breydon fauna as it was in the early days of many 

 who are living now, and its somewhat attenuated status of 

 to-day. Mr. Patterson may well claim to be known as the 

 natural historian of Breydon, and his three books will remain a 

 repository of the annals of wild life around Yarmouth. When 

 shall we find a naturalist who will give us a similar account, and 

 based on the same long study and experience, of one or more of 

 the great inland Norfolk Broads ? 



The illustrations induce special comment. They are by the 

 author, who modestly states, " I am a self-taught amateur 

 artist." He, however, does not only draw birds, but gives us 

 his long experience and observation of their pose, so that we may 

 say we see their specific attitudes — not their appearance as in a 

 well set-up case, but as live birds seen and drawn by a good field 

 naturalist. 



PRINTED BY WEST, NEWMAN AND CO., HATTON GAEDEN, LONDON. 



