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The Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. By the Rev. 

 J. E. Kelsall, M.A., and Philip W. Munn, F.Z.S., &c. 

 Witherby & Co. 



Every student and lover of British Birds eagerly anticipates 

 and welcomes the appearance of a county volume, especially 

 when the district is his own, or one of his favourite localities ; 

 we Surrey men are vastly interested in the fauna of the beautiful 

 county just over one of our borders ; most naturalists are alert 

 when the New Forest is mentioned, and no little interest apper- 

 tains to the birds of the Isle of Wight. Consequently this is 

 a volume that will quickly find its way on many shelves, especi- 

 ally those of the readers of ' The Zoologist,' who have so long 

 been made interested in at least one part of Hants by our old 

 contributor Mr. Corbin ; but above and beyond all, the county 

 contains Selborne, the home of Gilbert White, whose book has 

 long since gained the position, of an English classic, and is 

 neglected by no reader of English literature. 



Two hundred and ninety-four species are enumerated ; of 

 these eighty-five are residents, forty-two summer visitors, seventy 

 winter (including spring and autumn) visitors, thirty- six occa- 

 sional, and sixty -one accidental visitors — a formidable list com- 

 pared with the one hundred and twenty recorded by White 

 as found at Selborne only. Very much information has 

 been garnered respecting each species, and records diligently 

 consulted; so that the work may fairly claim to be "up to 

 date." 



We have only noted two errors in reading these interesting 

 pages — one a mistake, the other a misprint. In the bibliography 

 we read "Letters of Busticus, edited by Edward Newman." 

 The first editor of ' The Zoologist ' did not edit, but was the 

 author of that volume. The misprint is in the spelling of the 

 name of Col. Feilden. 



The work is well illustrated from actual photographs, and an 

 excellent map is also given. 



