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Book Notices and Reviews, 
section comprises five chapters, and lucidly portrays the Geographical 
and Geological aspects of the Colony, and with similar clearness 
passes in review the native races, their religions, customs, etc. 
Part 111. Natural Histuky: Bikds, JSbasts, and Fishes. 
Comprises five chapters. The chapter on ' Biids is from the pen 
'of our member Dr. E. HopkinsOii, D.H.O., who is well known to 
"B.N." readers, by the serial "Birds of Gambia" which has been 
running through our pages for the past three years. He', with^ his 
usual clearness and lucidity, passes in review, the whole of theJ 
Gambian Birds, witliin the compass of some 20 pages, and most 
thoroughly too, in spite of the limitations of space. 
Capt. W. B. Stanley contributes a most interesting chapter on 
Wild Animals and Hunting, the remaining chapters doal with Amphib- 
ians, and 'Fishes. A most useful appendix of a List of Birds, Beasts, 
and Pishes, with Native Names, and a compreliensive index complete, 
a most readable book. 
To those interested in our Colonies and their national aspect, 
with England's responsibilities thereto, this book will be read and 
re-read with avidity, even though England does not always shine in 
all her dealings with those she has sworn to piotect with her 
National Plag, but we will let the author speak: 
" It is perhaps too late to ' right the wrongs of the people 
" who have trusted in us for hundreds of years, wrongs that, com- 
"' mencing with slave dealing ia the Sixteenth Century, culminated 
" in breaches of trust by the barter of teiTitory, in the Nineteenth 
" and Twentieth Centuries; but at least we ca i repent and sin no 
" more." "To the human race, black or white, 
" liberty, lands, and peace of mind are often considered worth 
" many lives in waifare, and to barter in cold blood these ideals 
" of primitive races, with whom we have entered into solemn 
" treaties to protect and sustain, is but little less vile." (The ref- 
" erence is to the Congo atrocities). " iThese in the Gambia, we 
" have continually sacrificed in the interest of our foreign relations, 
" and it is little to be proud of that we should be unablei to 
" maintain our place in Europe among the nations of the world 
" without barteiing away the lands of our subjects in Africa." 
The general reader will also take the book up again and 
again, and gain by the reading of it. The section devoted to 
Natural History will specially appeal to our readers, while compre- 
hensive it is also popular and yet scientific. While but a small 
portion of t^e book deals with birds, it is a book we cordially 
commend to our readers. 
Editorial. 
Hybrids: Several of these have cropped up during the 
seasoi' from the mating of odd birds, some of which we have 
already noted. 
