BOOK NOTICES. 



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Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands. 



We have received parts iii and iv of this work, containing excellent 

 figures of the 



It is not our custom to allude to the price of works submitted for 

 review, but would remind our ornithological readers that the most 

 satisfactory pictures of British Birds extant are being issued at the 

 trivial price of 9 id. each. — W.E.C. 



British Stalk-eyed Crustacea and Spiders. By F. A. A. Skeus. 

 Small 8vo, 128 pages — 1887. London: Swan, Sonnenschein 

 & Co. Price is. 



Pond Life: Insects. By Edward A. Butler, B.A., B.Sc. Small 8vo, 

 128 pages — 1886. London: Swan, Sonnenschein & Co. Price is. 

 These two little volumes form part of Messrs. Swan, Sonnenschein 

 &: Co.'s 'Young Collector' series, and are in point of merit quite 

 equal to their predecessors, and we are not sure that it would not have 

 been better to separate the Crustacea and Spiders — the latter being 

 entirely terrestrial, and the former almost entirely marine in habitat. 

 The volume on Pond-life is more popular in style than the others of 

 the series, and contains no technical tables beyond a list with character* 

 of the orders of insects. 



Swallow-tails and Skippers. By Darley Dale; with a coloured frontispiece 

 by Miss Lucy Francis. London : The Religious Tract Society, 8vo, pp. 158. 

 This little volume gives, in the form of a narrative, an account of a season's 

 collecting of butterflies by the boys of a small school, and conveys in pleasant 

 language some of the elementary facts concerning butterflies. Is it to be inferred 

 from speaking of Colzas Edusa being absent from Sussex, and of Papilio inachaoji 

 being taken in the larva state near Bristol, that the fictions are not intended to be 

 regarded as confined to the narrative ? 



Our Pets and Companions ; Stories illustrating Kindness to 



Animals. By Mary Kemble Martin. London : The Religious Tract 

 Society, not dated, 4to, pp. 96, profusely illustrated. 

 This is an excellent book to place in the hands of children, and the very 

 numerous woodcut illustrations are worthy of much praise. 

 March 1887. 



White's Thrush. 

 Reed Warbler. 

 Marsh Warbler. 

 Wood Wren. 

 Icterine Warbler. 

 Swallow, 



Dartford Warbler. 

 Goldcrest. 



Long-tailed Titmouse. 

 Coal Titmouse (2 plates). 

 Wren. 



Martin, 

 Sand Martin. 

 Alpine Swift. 

 Scops Owl. 

 Little Owl, 

 Hobby. 

 Tree Creeper. 

 Nutcracker. 

 Woodlark. 



Sparrowhawk (3 plates). 



