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BIRDS' EGG S, BUTTERFLIES, M OTHS, ETC. 



Catalog:ue (96 pag-es) sent post free on application. 



FENLAND NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Edited by Rev. W. D. SWEETING, M.A., *Maxey,' Queen's Road, 

 Wallington, Surrey. 



A QUARTERLY JOUR^s^ AL, devoted to the Antiquities, Geology, Natural 

 Features, Parochial Records, Family History, Legends and Traditions, Folk 

 Lore, Curious Customs, etc., of the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, 

 •Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suftblk. 



Price Is. 6d. per quarter, by post Is. 8d. A year's Subscription (January to 

 -October), if paid in advance, 6s. post free. 



Part 1 issued April, 1889. 



Vols. I., IL, III., IV., v., and VI. now ready, neatly bound, leather back, 

 -cloth sides, gilt top, lettered, 15s. each, postage 6d. (foreign 1/-), from the 

 Publisher, Peterborough. 



Peterborough : Published by Geo. C. Caster. Market Place. 

 London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Ltd., and Elliot Stock. 



*THE NATURALIST' for 1907. 



Hdited by T. SHEPPARD, F.G.S., and T. W. WOODHEAD, Ph.D., F.L.S 



Tastefully hound in Cloth Boards. Price 71" net. 



4^ontains 456 pages of excellent reading matter ; 42 full-page^ high- 

 class plates ; and numerous illustrations throughout the text. 



The volume includes many valuable and attractive articles by 

 -Some of the most prominent naturalists and leading scientific 

 men in the country, and forms a handsome, well-illustrated, 

 and most acceptable present to all interested in out-door life. 



THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



A Historical Account of the Avifauna of the County. 

 By THOS. H. NELSON, M.B.O.U., Redcar, 



"With the co-operation of W. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., and F. Boyes. 



2 Vols. Demy Svc, 25/- net., the set. ; Demy 4to., 42/- net., the set. 



Nearly two hundred photo-illustrations are included of noted bird-sites or 

 tiaunts and interesting- phases of bird-life within the county. This work is based 

 -upon an unrivalled and exceptionally complete mass of material. The scope of 

 "the work is comprehensive, and the account of each species includes succinct 

 accounts of distribution, faunistic status, mig-ration, nidification, variation, 

 vernacular nomenclature, and folk-lore^ with full details when necessary, and 

 •critic? I and detailed particulars of the occurrence of the rare species ; while under 

 •each species is incorporated a verbatim reproduction of the account given of it by 

 Thomas Allis in 1844, whose list (the earliest Yorkshire one) of that year has never 

 been published. A detailed Prospectus will be sent to any address on application 

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