Hon; I hroiighf Borne a Humming Bird. 297 
on my finger, and I held him up to window of the carriage 
all the way to get the full benefit of the sun, which gave him 
new life. We arrived in London quite safe, with our little 
bird looking stronger and happier than he was the day I first 
got him. He now has full wiiiys. tail, and is in good plumage. 
Yesterday (Oct. 6th), Isold the little mite to Mr. Maxwell, 
the well-known exhibitor, who, I hope, will have great suc- 
cess with it, and trust he will exhibit it at the coming Palace 
Show. I may say, that besides my little novelty, I brought home 
14 cases of birds, animals, and rejjtiles, among which were 
100 Alligators, one mother Sloth and baby, one pair Jemmerson 
Lories, 100 rare Tanagers, Flycatchers, Sugar Birds, etc.; 
20 various monkeys, including Black Marmozets, Spider 
Monkeys, Capuchin, etc.; one very lar,ue Iguana, several 
Snakes, Lizards, Land Crab.s, Swamp Prones, F.-ogs, Toads, etc.; 
40 Mongoose, 13 Scissor Birds, Canary-wing Parrakccts, and 
40 large Amazon Parrots, and a host of other stock. 
Book Notices and Reviews. 
Indian Birds.— A key to the Common Birds of the Plains of India. 
By Douglas Dewar., I.C.S., etc. London, 1909, John Lane, (is. net. 
From the pen of our esteemed member has emanated yet 
another book on the birds of India, and this, his latest production, 
is certainly one of the best he has written, being- a veritable 
multum in parvo, and though as the writer states in his preface — 
"The object of this book is to enable people interested in our Indian 
birds to identify at sight those they are likely to meet with in their 
compounds and during their excursions into the jungle,"— it will l)e 
equallj' useful and interesting to the aviculturist in this country, in 
defining such unknown Indian birds as may come into his possession; 
for, as the writer frankly state;3, the sliort descrii)tions are not from 
skins, but " an attempt to depict the bird «v it looks when perched 
in a tree or during flight." Thus these may differ a little from 
the text books, wldch are mostly descriptions of the skins of dead 
birds. 
The plan of tlie woi'k is botli ingenious and ori,L;iiial, and 
will s]iecially commend itself to the aviculturist and field naturalist — 
this will be indicated by the following table of contents: 
PAHT I -A. Hindustani Names of Common Birils. 
B. Classilication According to Structural Pecularities.— 
1, Bill ; 2, Crest ; 3, Legs ; 4, Tail ; 5,lSexual Dimorphism. 
