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had previously seen the snipe, and we again spent two fruitless 
hours searching for their nests — our sole reward being a land- 
rail’s containing eight eggs. After quitting this field we decided 
to go up a small tributary of the Cam, to visit some nests we 
had found empty a week previously : three reed warblers’ had 
each four eggs, and near one of these I saw a fine specimen of 
a puss moth, which was on a reed close to the water, and had 
apparently recently emerged from the chrysalis. 
We found several other nests — sedge and reed warblers’, 
fly-catchers’, a chaffinch’s with blue eggs, and a few others, but 
did not tarry long, being anxious to get into Cambridge early 
in the afternoon. At 2.30 we were home again, feeling tired, 
untidy and unshaven, but nevertheless having enjoyed our trip 
immensely, and having established a record (for us) in early 
rising which we shall not attempt to beat for some time to 
come. 
Corpus Christi College, Camhs. A. C. Mackie. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Omb/i. By W. II. Iludsop. Duckworth and Co. Price is. 6d. 
Nothing written by so distinguished a naturalist and keen an observer as Mr. 
W. H. Hudson can be without interest, and the four stories contained in this 
small green volume (Messrs. Duckworth and Co.), which take us back to the 
South American pampas, already made familiar to us by his previous books, have 
much of the vivid actuality of the latter, and, while dealing with men instead of 
birds and beasts, give us veritable and most grimly realistic pictures of life in 
Argentina in the early half of the last century : rough sketches hot with the sun 
of that southern land, stained and often disfigured with blood ; .sombre generally, 
not infrequently dreary ; but bearing even in their imperfection, their occasional 
incoherences and want of dramatic construction, the impress of having been 
taken down, as represented, from the lips of one belonging to the soil of which 
they speak. We trust that if, having said this much, we go on to add that we 
prefer Mr. Hudson in his dealings with the natural life, rather than the human 
denizens of the pampas, it will not be thought uncomplimentary to an author who 
might well have been contented to rest his laurels upon facts without invading the 
alread)' overcrowded walks of fiction. 
The Trees of Dulwich : with some General Information about Trees. By M. J. 
.Teesdale. Leek : W. H. Eaton, the Moorlands Press. 
With the natural exception of Kew, no .suburb of London is perhaps .so rich in 
hardy exotic trees ,-is Dulwich, and in this neatly printed brochure of 72 pages 
Mr. Teesdale, an enthusiastic local botanist, has got together a vast amount of 
pleasant gossiping tree-lore. The information given is strictly accurate so far as 
the botany is concerned, though the printer has been somewhat eccentric in his 
diphthongs and initial capitals. Of the rich store of local history and biography 
we do not feel competent to speak ; but it is at least not certain that the elder 
John Tradescant had anything to do with Holland. Lovers of trees and those 
interested in London local history owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Teesdale for his 
pleasant contribution to the subject of their studies. 
'J'he Protection of Birds. By Captain G. A. Daubeny. (Reprinted from The 
IVestern Morning Nexus.) 
This reprint is in the awkward form of a single folio sheet of thin paper ; but for 
its wise and moderate contents we have nothing but praise. It is an endeavour to 
