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Species.” The method pursued is in alternate columns—Status of British 
Isles, and Status Devonshire,—to denote whether the species is Resident, 
Summer Visitor, Winter Visitor, or Straggler. Recent additions to the 
British List are appended. 
As to Devonshire, Mr. Evans reports that the ‘county, as might be 
expected from its great extent and varied physical characteristics, is visited by 
an extraordinary numberof species. It canclaim, approximately, three-fourths 
of the resident nesting-birds of our islands, two-thirds of the summer resi- 
dents, forty-two out of forty-three winter residents, and seven-eighths of the 
stragglers. There are, in fact, eighty-four residents, thirty-four summer 
residents, forty-two winter residents, and one hundred and twenty accidental 
visitors —all together, four-fifths of the birds ever found in the whole 
kingdom.”’ 
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Mr. G. W. Murgpocg, the well-known editor of the Science and Natural 
History Department of the ‘ Yorkshire Weekly Post,’ is engaged in the 
production of a new Guide to Lakeland, in which special chapters will be 
given on “ Natural History,” ‘“ Angling,” ‘‘ Scandinavian Klements in 
Lakeland Places, Names,” &c. 
‘L’InTERMEDIATRE des Biologistes ; organe international de Zoologie, 
Botanique, Physiologie et Psychologique’ has recently appeared, and the 
second number (20th November, 1897) is now before us. Itis published in 
Paris, under the direction of Dr. Alfred Binet and Dr. Victor Henri, issued 
by C. Reinwald, with Schleicher Fréres as ‘“ éditeurs.” It is largely a 
means of communication between naturalists and others by questions and 
answers, in fact, on the principle of our well-known literary weekly, ‘ Notes 
and Queries.’ It also professes to give a ‘Sommaire de Périodiques’ on 
General Biology, but this seems confined to a list of contents only. 
‘ LertraDEN fiir Aquarien- und Terrarienfreunde,’ von Dr. E.. Zeruecke, 
published at Berlin by Gustav Schmidt, is the latest addition to the literature 
on the successful management of Aquaria and Vivaria. Plants suitable for 
the aquarium are not only well described and illustrated, but their growth and 
management also dealt with. Amongst the suitable inhabitants of the 
fresh-water aquarium, several fish are enumerated and figured which 
are somewhat seldom seen in aquaria in this country, such as members 
of the tropical and subtropical American genera Pimelodus and Callichthys, 
as well as the “ Paradise” and “ Telescope” fishes (Polyacanthus), the 
Gurami (Osphromenus), and the “ Kletterfisch” or, as known to ourselves, 
«Climbing Perch” (Anabas scandens), from the Oriental region. The 
