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Book Notices and Fevtews 
the number of eggs varying from six to twelve or more. 
The young can swim as soon as they are dry after hatching, 
and are reared on insects and vegetation, together with a 
certain amount of seeds and grain. 
Book Notices and Reviews. 
Talks About Birds: By Frank Finn, containing' I li colnui ed 
and 20 uncoloured plates. Small square demy 8v;)., cluth, gilt 
top, 6s net. London: A. and C. Black, Suho Square, \V. 
For this latest work from the paolific pen of Mr. Finn, we have 
nothina' but praise — it is well conceived — in his pTeface the author 
states that he has made an attempt to have a number oi' talks 
with young people about various birds — their ways of living, haoits, 
tricks, minds, and thoughts, so far as they are known, to have any. 
That Mr. Finn, has succeeded will be at onoe apparent from the 
following' glossary of contents, and illustraiions: 
Contents: Where our Poultry came from — Birds in Training 
— Fagging in the Bird World — Birxls that are boarded out—Birds 
at Play — Giants, and Dwarfs — Birds in the Nursery — Birds at School — 
Bii'ds that Keep Order — Birds under water — Birds about Towns— Some 
Strangle Nests — ^Bii'ds at Night — Bird Adventures — Some Bird Nota- 
bilities. 
Illustrations (in colour) : Fishing Avith Cormoi'ants — Red- 
poll — Peregrine Falcon — Richaidson's Skua — Cuckoo — Moorhen— King- 
fisher — Eagle — Red- throated Diver — Red -breasted Merganser — ICite — 
Stork — Magpie — Waxwing — Wren — Starling. (In Ijlaek-and-white) : 
Flamingo — Harpy — Ostrich — Rhea — Bee Humming-bird— Heron Hi atzin 
Cariajna — King-bird — King-Penguin — Great Auk — Nest of Oven Bird 
Hcrnbill — Kiwi — White Owl — Nightjar — Sandgrouse — Hoopoe — Quezal 
Secretary Bird. 
We cordially commend the above to the attention of our 
readers, thougli primarily penned for young people it will not fail 
to interest and instruct those of riper years. It is worthy a i)lace 
on youi' bookshelf. 
Editorial. 
Viellot's Tanagbr iCdUisie vieUoti) -. The lower figure 
on our coloured plate, drawn from a specimen imported and ex- 
hibited by Mr. A. Sutcliffe at the L.C.B.A. Show of November, 
1910, where Mr. Goodchild made the necessary studies, of which 
the fine figure on our frontispiece is the resulL There are four 
species — or species and sub-species — of Calliste which all bear a 
striking resemblance to each other, viz : 
