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Carrion Crow — Corbie Crow, Dope, Doup, Ket Crow, Cobier, 

 Black Neb. 



Hooded Crow — Norway Crow, Grey Crow, Grey-backed Crow. 



Missel Thrush— Churr Cock, Storm Cock, Mountain Throstle, 

 Screech Thrush, Shrite. 



Snow Bunting — Snow-flake, Snow-fowl, Snow-bird, Pied Finch, 

 Fell Sparrow, Mountain Bunting. 



Bean Goose — Grey Lag, Wild Goose. 



Dotterel — Mountain Plover, Foohsh Dotterel. 



Ciolden Plover — Grey Plover, Whistling Plover, Yellow Plover. 



Buzzard — Buzzard-hawk, Shreak, Bustard, Puttock, Gled. 



Cormorant — Scart, Black Cormorant, Black Diver, Elder. 



Black-headed Gull — Sea Mew, Black-head, Red-legged Gull. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull — Black-back (fisher-folk). 



Curlew— ^Vhaup, Jack Curlew. 



Peregrine — Big Blue Hawk, Falcon. 



Storm Petrel — Sea-Swallow, Mother Carey's Chicken. 



BOTANY FOR CHILDREN. 



Flower-Land : an introduction to Botany for Children, and for the use of 

 Parents and Teachers, By Robert Fisher, M.A. (Vicar of Sewerby). 

 Cr. Svo, boards, pp. 62. Heywood: Manchester and London. 1887. 

 The aim of this little work is as simple as its method of treatment, recalling to 

 one's mind Browning's dictum — 



That low man goes on adding one to one — 

 His hundred's soon hit, 



but so far as it goes — it is verily the alphabet of botanology — we have nothing but 

 praise to accord to it. As a sample of the happy way in which 'the little ones' are 

 to be led into the decoys of cotyledonous terminology, we cannot do better than 

 cite from the Ruskinesque paragraph with which the author opens : ' I am,' he 

 says to the children, ' going to write you a little book, which I hope will help you. 

 Perhaps you will be disappointed when I tell you that there will not be any 

 pictures in it. But you are to find the pictures for yourself. This will be much 

 the best plan, for first, you will have all the fun of looking for them, and then 

 u<he7i you have fou7td t/iem, they will be better than any pictures /lave ever seen J 

 This is delightful, and there are more naive remarks with the same quaint sim- 

 phcity about them. Those anent umbelled blooms — the hollow-stemmed Kex, 

 the Earth-nut, etc. — are especially good, but surely all youngsters know the 

 Angelica ' Kex," the thick, pink, hollow juicy stem of which furnishes the tube for 

 the rustic's first whistle. Most country-bred children, too, have dug for pig-nuts 

 and eaten their farinaceous root-knobs (they are not ' bulbs ' — vide p. 49 — by-the- 

 byei alluded to by Geo. Eliot alone among the poets, in her ' Brother and Sister ' — 



Here were earth-nuts found 

 And here the Lady-fingers in deep shade. 



The little book is well printed in clear type, but we nowhere see its price 

 stated.— L. 



XO TE - ORNITHOL OGY. 



White Stork near Scarborough. — Mr. Frederick Boyes writes me on the 

 24th inst. that a White Stork {Ciconia alba) was picked up recently near Scar- 

 borough.— \V. Ka(;i K Clarke, May 26th, iSSS. 

 June i383. 



