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tliology, but obscrvt's, thiuks, and rticords for liimsL'lf ; a Naturalist 
totally unfettered by the "isms" of any zoological school. This is 
aptly shown in the concluding paragraph of the rrelaee which i-cads jis 
follows : — 
" It is not very long since an English scientific paper publishisd 
an article entitled ' What have ornithologists done for Darwiiiism ?' 
So long as zoologists test the work of the naturalist by the anioiiiif of 
evidenoT he collects for Darwinism or any other 'ism,' it is hopel.'ss 
to expect zoological science to progress. ' 
The book runs into XXXIX chapters ami u comprelieiisi\ c index, 
we give contents below : — ■ 
Chapter I. Birds in a Grove; II. The ]\Iagpie Kobin ; fit. The 
Indian Snake-Bird; IV. Minivets ; V. The Power of Animals to Express 
Thought, Vi. I'ied Woodpeckers; Vll. A Jhil out of Season; VII[. 
Birds in White; IX. The Fied -crested Cuckoo; X. Vultures; XI. 
The Indian Robin; XII. The Shikra ; XIII. A Finch of Roseate Hue; 
XIV. Birds on the Lawn ; XV. The Grey Hornbill ; XVI. The Flamingo ; 
XVII. Summer Visitors to the Punjab Plains ; XVIII. A Bird of ATany 
Aliases; XIX. Paddy Birds at Bedtime; XX. Merlins; XXI. The Com- 
mon Wryneck ; XXII. Green Pigeons ; XXIII. Bulbuls' Nests ; XXIV. 
Nightingales in India; XXV. The Wire-tailed Swallow; XXVI. Win- 
ter Visitors to tJie Punjab Plains; XXVII. A Kingfisher and a Tern; 
XXVm The Red Turtle Dove; XXIX. Birds in the jMillet Fields; 
XXX . Hoopoes at the Nesting Season ; XXXI . The Largest Bird in 
India; XXXII. The Swallow-Plover; XXXIII. The Birds of a Madras 
Garden; XXXIV. Sun birds ; XXXV. The Bank Myna ; XXXV f. The 
Jackdaw; XXXVIl. Fighting in Nature; XXXVIII. Birds and But- 
terflies , XXXIX. Voices of the Night ; Index. 
Instead of personal comment to any extent I am j'ielding to the 
temptation to partially reprint the first chapter, and leave my readers 
to judge for themselves. 
Birds in the Geove : — "The small groves that usually sur- 
round hamlets in Oudh are favourite resorts of birds." 
' 1 know of few more pleasant ways of passing an hour than 
under the trees in such a grove at the "beginning of Decemb(!r, when 
the weather is perfect . The number of birds that show themselves is 
truly astonishing." 
' Recently I tarried for a little time in such a grove consist- 
ing of half-a-dozen mango trees, a tamarind and a pipal, and witnessed 
'here a veritable avian pageant — a pageant accompanied by music." 
"The Sunbirds (Arachnechikra asiatica) were the leading min- 
strels. There may liave been a dozen of them in the little lope. T(j 
count them was impossible, because Sunbirds are never still for two 
seconds together. AVhen not flitting about amid the foliage, looking 
for insects they are playing at hide-and-seek, or pouring out iheir 
canary-like song. At this season of the year the cocks are in undress 
plumage. In his full splendour the male is glistening purple ; but in 
August he loses nearly all his purple gloss and becomes brown above 
