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yisorius) when at large, also seem to be very partial to this tree, 
and on two farms in this neighbourhood where these pretty 
birds are allowed their full liberty, this is very noticeable. In 
a garden about a mile and a-half from the Suffolk coast, there is 
a fine, handsome specimen of P. pinsapo, in which these doves 
have several times nested and reared their young. 
The tree does well in the sands and gravels of East Suffolk, 
and the finest example I know of in this immediate neighbour- 
hood grows in a poor grey sand. 
Baxhall, Suffolk, G. T. Rope. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Flora of Skipton and District. Compiled by Lister Rotheray. Skiplon : 
Edmondson & Co. Price is. 6d. nett. 
The Craven Naturalists’ and Scientific Association are to be congratulated on 
this excellent piece of work compiled on their behalf by Mr. R itheray, and 
published by some twenty-six subscribers. It contains less than 150 pages, having 
none of the preliminary matter now usual in county floras, and giving commend- 
ably brief records of localities ; but, as it enumerates not only fl iwering plants 
but the entire cryplogamic flora of the district from Filices to Mycetozoa and 
Baciliariete (Diatoms), Schizophyta only e.xcepted, it comprises no less than 2,200 
species and varieties. The work has been done with great care as to nomen- 
clatuie, and is clearly and correctly printed, so that altogether it is a very credit- 
able local supplement to Mr. F. A. Lees’ Flora of IVest Yorkshire, published 
nearly twelve years ago. The only points we feel disposed to criticise are the 
map, which gives no indication of scale, or that the “district” has a radius of 
thirteen miles, and the unnecessary prominence given to mere book English names 
by the use of black type, which might preferably have been employed for the 
.scientific names. We hope residents and visitors will support the Association in 
this bold undertaking. 
Report of the Kent and Surrey Committee of the Commons and Footpaths Preser- 
vation Society, 1899-1900. 
This most satisfactory report of eminently Selbornian work is illustrated with 
charming views from Ide Hill, Croham Hurst, Marden Park and Brockwell Park. 
F.very member of the .Selborne Society in the two counties should support the 
Committee, w'hose office is at l. Great College Street, Westminster. 
The Girls' Realm for .September contains inter alia an attractive article by 
Mr. Edward Step, F.L.S., entitled “ An Hour in a Drang.” 
Received. — Leaflets on The Protection of Wild Animals, British Blood-Sports : 
Angling, Ctuelty at Public Schools, 7'he Eton College Beagles, The Royal Buck- 
hounds : a record of their sport for the season, 1898-9, White Vcat and The 
Inland Transit of Cattle, from the Humanitarian League, The Victorian 
Naturalist for July and August, The Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, Knoiv- 
ledge, Science Gossip, '1 he Animal World, The Animals' Friend, Our Animal 
Friends, Humanity and The Agricultural Economist for September. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Stoat Stealing" Eggs. — An instance came under my notice just recently 
of how careful a gamekeeper should be before he condemns the jay or the magpie 
for tampering with the nests of his sacred game birds. A immial acquaintance 
missed a nest of sixteen partridge’s eggs, and as no human beings had been near 
the spot the thief was at once put down as the jay or the magpie, but as my 
friend watched near the nest he saw a stoat run into a hole, and he proceeded to 
