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in this district, and on our expressing our doubts about it, lie positively 

 asserts that there can really be no question of the fact, as it was heard by 

 others on the same morning, though not since. Can any of our corres- 

 pondents confirm this extraordinary statement? — Eds. Nat. 



CoERECTiON. — There is a slight error in my paper on The Coleoptera 

 of Liverpool and Neighbourhood." It is the capture of Dromins linearis 

 and Demetrius atricapillus on mugwort {Artemisia campestris) ; it ought to 

 have been " on A. vulgaris.'' — John W. Ellis, 138, Crown -street, Liver- 

 pool, March 2nd, 1881. 



REVIEW.—'' British Birds : their Nests and Eggs. By S. L. Mosley 

 (Huddersfield and Hartlepool)." In monthly parts, superior edition 2s., 

 cheaper edition Is. : Nos. I., II., and III. — Although we have no lack of 

 books on British birds and their eggs, we think there is still quite room 

 for one of the character of Mr. Mosley's. Each part contains four 

 beautiful plates, hand-colored by the author, in almost every case from 

 examples of birds and eggs in the cabinets of our ornithologists and 

 ODlogists — two of them representing the birds, and the other two the eggs, 

 described in the part. The text is clear and distinct, although we notice 

 an occasional slight printer's error ; and full and accurate particulars as 

 to size, plumage, flight, migration, nest and eggs, of each species and 

 variety are given. The whole is corrected and revised by a well-known 

 ornithologist, one of our most honoured naturalists, and a Fellow of 

 the Zoological Society ; for although his name does not appear in con- 

 nection with the work, we at once guessed who it was. The superior 

 edition is very well got up, and the cheaper one is not far behind it ; 

 indeed for all working purposes we think it quite as good as the other. 

 It may be as well to add, also, that the "Birds " and ''Eggs " mayJbe 

 had separately at half-price. 



" North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club and Archaeological 

 Society: Fifteenth Annual Report, 1880." — We have just received the 

 above report, which, as usual, is a model of completeness. It contains 

 full reports of all the excursions which have been made, and of papers 

 read, which are of great interest. It is evident that the Society is a 

 prosperous one, and doing good work, and we heartily commend their 

 example, both of the work and its method of record, to other kindred 

 institutions. 



Obituary.— We deeply regret to record the death at the early age of 

 thirty-five, of Mr. Edward R. Alston, F.L.S., well known for his re- 

 searches in connection with the birds and rodents. Mr. Alston had 

 always been very delicate, but had given promise of soon becoming one of 

 our foremost men in his knowledge of the rodents, &c. He had recently 

 been elected secretary of the Linnean Society of London, and the Fellows 

 of that Society, at the meeting on March I7th, shewed their sympathy, 

 and their grief at his loss, by adjourning the meeting directly the 

 formal business was disposed of. — Eds. Nat. 



