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volume also contains the usual full reports of the field meetings, an excellent 
address on the progress of zoology by the President, Mr. Step, and a beautiful 
coloured plate of the life-history ot a new Psychid Pyropsyche vioncaunella. 
Our Country’s Animals and Hoto to Know Them. A Guide to the Mammals, 
Reptiles and Amphibians of Great Britain. By VV. J. Gordon. Wiih 33 
full-page coloured plates and 43 diagrams by R. E. Holding. Simpkin, 
Marshall and Co. Price 6s. 
This volume seems to us an improvement on its predecessors. The colour- 
printing is not of a high order ; but then the volume is inexpensive considering 
the number of the' illustrations. The title is confessedly “popular” in excluding 
birds, fishes and invertebrates; but most of these have been dealt with in other 
volumes of the series ; and, per contra, room has been found for the unexpected 
enumeration of all known British fossil mammals and for a glossary of scientific 
terms. Mr. Holding has drawn a skull of one species in each living genus ; but 
it is to be regretted that some indication of the scales of these drawings has not 
been given. .School-teachers will find this a useful guide to the groups of British 
animals with which it deals ; but there is little space (or any natural history beyond 
mere identification. 
The Field Naturalist’s Quarterly for June contains its usual variety of 
excellent articles, though our readers will be sorry to learn that our Member, 
Mr. Hedger Wallace, has been prevented by illness from furnishing his quota on 
Nature-Study. Articles on “ Bardsey Island,” “ Social Wasps,” “ Piotective 
Plumage,” “Pollination,” “ Turbellaria,” “China,” and “Field Geology,” 
however, all written by competent authorities, would seem to cater for every 
naturalist. 
The Second Annual Report of the Horniman Museum (price id.) gives a 
long list of marine and Ireshwater animals exhibited during the year, and is 
illustrated by two plates, one of which is a fine representation of stone 
implements from India and Egypt. 
The Parents’ Revieiu should obtain some scientific revision. The June number 
contains “A Chat about Flowers,” which states that “a wonderful South African 
plant, the discovered in i860— of which the dicotyledons fall 
off; it has in fact no others,” and speaks of “ an umbelliferte.” 
Received : Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Leaflets — 10 1, Prevention 
of White Scour in Calves; 102, Quarter III, Quarter Evil or Black Leg; 103, 
The Pine Sawfly (Lophyrus pini) illustrated ; 105, Black Scab of Potatoes ; and 
106, Fertilisers for Market Garden Crops; 1 ‘arents’ National Eaucational 
Union, Thirteenth Annual Report; The American Botanist and Nature Study 
(Manchester N. H.) for April; The Plant World and The Victorian Naturaiist 
for May ; and The Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, Nature Study \X.QQ.Vvtond), 
The Animals' P'riend, I'he Animal World, The Humanita>ian, The Common- 
tvealth and The .Agricultural Economist for J une. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
124. Hedgehog'. — In answer to the query on p. 118 , 1 well remember 
many years ago meeting with hedgehogs in an Oxforrlshire orchard, to the spines 
of two of winch several apples were sticking. The apples had adhered to the 
.spines, there was little doubt, when the creatures were rolling under the trees. 
That the hedgehog climbs the apple-tree and carries off the fruit stuck to its spines 
(as country people say it is in the habit of doing) is, of course, absurd. 
P'yfeld, near Alnngdon. W. II. Warnkk. 
125. Squirrels. — The .squirrel probably has an occasional feast on eggs, 
certainly on young birds, as we have caught it in the act twice in West Sussex, 
the victims being young thrushes and chaffinches. 
W. A. SllAW. 
126. Squirrels. In answer to Mr. Mackie, permit me to .say I have in 
my pos.session several letters Irom reliable observers respecting the toll srjuirrels 
