Book Nolices and Reviews. 
" CaicJmig. The taking of this bird is a luost difficult task. 
I have only had the luck to catch one in luy life, and that was 
done in rather a simple way. I was having a day's fishing in the 
Severn, beyond Tewkesbury, and took three rods with me. It 
was a glorious day, in fact rather too much so from an angling 
point of view. I rigged up two of the rods first, and left the 
third in the case thinking I would see what was going before I 
used the third. Fishing is, at the best of times, a tame job, and 
that day it was particularly so, and if it had not been for the bit 
of life that a Reed Warbler in some reeds close by, added to the 
quietness of the scene, I should certainly have gone to sleep 
(like a great many anglers do I believe). However, the little 
chap kept on chattering to himself, till at last I thought I would 
see if I could get him, which, by the way, I should not have done 
had it not been well on in August and the breeding season over. 
I went a yard or two down the bank to see what chance there 
was of securing him. I noticed a gap in the reeds, which were 
not very wide at that spot, where a barge or a punt had apparent- 
ly been standing. It was in this opening that I placed my other 
rod, with the top joint for about a foot down, nicely laid with 
lime, which I always carry with me. I baited this by pinning a 
gentle in the midst, and in less than half an hour the little chap 
was mine. He was a beautiful specimen, and lived a long time 
in the cage I constructed on purpose for him. 
" Hand Reaiing. Do this by all means if you have the 
good fortune to get hold of a nest of young. Take at nine or 
ten days, nest and all. and treat the same as recommended in the 
the case of the 'Gale.'* 
" Meating off, Steadying arid Ge?ieral Feeding. Follow out 
* Too lengthy to reprint here in full " having got your prize 
home, keep them near the kitchen fire (this is within reason), and at night 
cover them right over with cotton wool — draughts must he avoided at all 
costs. Prepare a food of two parts live ants' eggs (soaked and dried in a 
towel), liard boiled egg and grated carrot two parts, make into a stiff paste 
and feed every hour and half, supplx ing water from a quill three or four 
times a day. A plentiful supply of live food must be given during the 
moult." 
