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The Fungus Hunter's Guide. By W. Delisle Hay, F.R.G.S. (Swan, 

 Sonneiischein, Lowrey and Co.) 



This little work is intended for the use of amateur mycologists to 

 answer a similar pm-pose to Hayward's 'Botanists' Pocket Book,' 

 that is, to act as a sort of remembrancer whilst out collecting. 



Beginners frequently experience no little difficulty in remember- 

 ing the characters and even the names of the numerous Fungi 

 which annually make their appearance. 'The Fungus Hunter's 

 Guide' will to a certain extent help them, as the names and brief 

 characteristics are given of many common H3mienomycetous Fungi, 

 and a few others, together with a list of about seventy esculent 

 species. The author seems to have had considerable experience 

 amongst edible Fungi, judging from the numerous species that are 

 marked ' E ' (esculent). Many of these have hitherto been 

 regarded as suspicious, and the properties of others -were entirely 

 unlmown. We should imagine, however, that few will ever attempt 

 to eat Bulgaria iJiqiiinaiis^ Treviella 7nese?iterica, and others that are 

 mentioned. The author has gone out of his way in christening many 

 of the species with new-fangled English names, the following of 

 which are a few examples : — ' The Sickener,' ' The Sickener's 

 Sister.' ' The Deadly Angel,' 'The Slayer,' ' Hen-of-the-Woods,' &c. 

 Such names as these can serve no earthly purpose, and would 

 have been better left out. 



The work is illustrated with the woodcuts from Cooke's 

 ' Handbook,' but their source is not acknowledged, and an analytical 

 key to the Agaricini is included, similar to if not identical with that 

 of Mr. Worthington Smith's. The book is also interleaved with 

 blank pages, for noting localities, &c. Altogether the work should 

 be of service to those for whom it is intended. — H.T.S. 



NOTE—ORNITHOLOG Y. 



Brent G-OOSe at Harrogate.— On March 31st I saw a specimen of the 

 Brent Goose {Bernicla brenta) near Harrogate. I was walking with a friend from 

 Birk Crag, when suddenly I saw a large bird come off the reservoir at the bottom 

 of Harlow Moor (it had evidently been frightened by some persons at the top 

 side). Up w^ent my glasses at once, and I had a splendid view, and as if to give 

 me a still better opportunity for identifying it, the bird suddenly came right over 

 our heads and not more than fifteen yards above us, so that we could easily 

 distinguish it with the naked eye. After wheeliug about for a short time it dis- 

 appeared in the direction of Beaver Dyke. Perhaps some reader could explain 

 the reason why a single specimen of this marine species should be found so far 

 inland at so late a date. The weather at the time was certainly ver}^ stormy, and 

 an unusal number of Gulls had been observed in the neighbourhood. No doubt 

 the Goose and the Gulls had been driven inland by the stormy winds. — Riley 

 Fortune, Alston House, Harrogate, April 5th, 1887. 



Naturalist, 



