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from the prolific pen of Mr. Westell, after some preliminaries, which will appeal 
to boys’ love of “making” something, begins, it is true, with “Some British 
Mammals,” and then devotes considerably more space to “ Our Bird Friends ” ; 
but a chapter entitled “ By the Riverside and Seashore,” dealing, inter alia, with 
sticklebacks, water-beetles, newts, lobsters, sea-urchins, “and other marine 
creatures,” then precedes one on insects (ants, ichneumon-flies, &c. ) and one on 
the story of a grain of wheat. Two summer holidays are then described, and 
the volume concludes with descriptions by W. J. Gordon and the Rev. Theodore 
Wood of the caterpillars and butterflies depicted in the two excellently coloured 
folding sheets which are placed in a pocket of the cover. Most of Mr. Sedg- 
wick’s illustrations are good, and we have no doubt that the whole will form an 
attractive and a useful present to many a boy. 
The Farm shorvti to the Children. By F. M. B. and A. II. Blaikie, described by 
Foster Meadow. With 48 coloured pictures. 63 x 4J in. Pp. 91. 
T. C. and E. C. Jack. Price 2s. 6d. net. 
This is a very good volume of a series already well known and appreciated. 
The drawings are unexceptionable, and if the colouring is sometimes rather 
crude, it may appeal the more to the young children for whom it is intended. 
The cat on Plate XLVIII. is somewhat terrific, and we doubt the justice of 
classing the rook with the wood-pigeon and sparrow among the farmer’s enemies. 
The Country Gentlemen's Estate Book, 1908. Edited by W. Broomhall. 
10 X 6 in. Pp. 575. Country Gentlemen’s Association. Price 21s. 
This handsome annual maintains the diversified interest of its contents. 
Illustrated papers on week-end cottages, the Wisley garden, and rubber-plants, 
and articles on electricity and plant-culture, the hop trade, birds and cultivation, 
and the cost of tree planting, sufficiently attest this. 
North American Fauna. No. 26. Revision of the Skunks of the Genus Spilogalc 
By Arthur II. Howell. 14 x 6J in. Pp. 55. With 10 plates. 
No. 32 ; Food Habits of the Grosbeaks. By W. L. McAtee. 9^ X 5J in. 
Pp. 92. With 4 coloured plates. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau 
of Biological Survey. 
Birds that Eat Scale-insects. By W. L. McAtee. 9|^ X 53 in. Pp. 9. Illus- 
trated. Reprint from Yearbook of Department of Agriculture for 1906. 
As usual, these United States Government publications fill us with envy. 
The first is a monograph of some twenty species, with a coloured map showing 
their distribution, and plates of their skins and skulls. The second deals with 
five species of birds, which are beautifully represented in colour, whilst an un- 
coloured plate and some forty figures in the text illustrate the seeds and insects 
upon which these useful birds feed. The third is a less detailed summary, more 
comparable to the publications of our own Board of Agriculture and Fisheries ; 
but the fact that all three are Government publications distributed gratuitously 
to all whom they concern, and that their purely scientific v'alue is at least as great 
as their economic importance — this it is which makes us envious. 
1 he University of Colorado Studies, vol. v. , Nos. l and 3. 10 x in. Pp. 63, 
with 6 plates ; and pp. 56, with one plate and figures in text. February 
and April, 1908. 
The first of these numbers contains an annotated list of works on the Natural 
History of the Rocky Mountains, and papers on the botany and oecology of parts 
of Colorado by Dr. Francis Ramaley, the Professor of Biology, who edits the 
“Studies.” The other number contains a paper on “ Rocky Mountain Fishes,” 
by Professor Cockerell, and one on “The .Sandstone of Fossil Ridge and its 
Fauna,” byj. Henderson. 
Received : Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Leaflet, No. 66, Fowl 
Cholera; No. 203, 7 he Utilization of Peat Lands; No. 209, Gooseberry 
“ Cluster-cup" Disease, Puccinia pringsheimiana ; and No. 21 1, Cider Orchards ; 
Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, vol. vi.. No. 19 ; Progress for 
July; and The Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, The Animals' Friend, The 
Humanitarian, and The Agricultural Economist for .\ugust. 
