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rocky islet to the S.E. of Newfoundland (probably the Virgin 
Rocks off Cape Race), where great numbers of the young were 
destroyed for bait ; but (he added), as this information was 
received too late in the season, he had no opportunity of ascer- 
taining its accuracy. It is curious that no allusion to this 
incident, though previously published, is to be found in the 
“ Labrador Journal ” now printed. 
The “ Missouri River Journals ” are most entertaining, and 
contain much that deserves quotation did space permit, par- 
ticularly the account given of the “ Buffalo ” and the Bighorn 
in the Mauvaises Ttrres (vol. ii., pp. 141-148). 
The concluding two-thirds of the second volume is devoted 
to a collection of “ Episodes ” in the life of the hunter-naturalist, 
of which no entire reprint has been hitherto made, although 
several of them originallyappeared in the Ornithological Biographies. 
The descriptions are wonderfully graphic, and although it is not 
easy to select one for special praise where all are so good (and 
there are about sixty), we may cite in particular the description 
given of a flood on the Mississippi (vol. ii, p. 440). Too lengthy 
for quotation it would be spoilt by curtailment, and deserves, like 
many other chapters of this fascinating work, to be read in extenso. 
The footnotes to the field journals supplied by an eminent 
living zoologist in America, Dr. Elliot Coues, are very much to 
the point, and enable the identification of species referred to 
by Audubon under names which since his time have been 
superseded. 
Finally, we are presented with several portraits of Audubon 
taken at different periods of his life, which depict the striking 
personality of a most remarkable man. Long-haired, eagle- 
visaged, with bright, piercing eyes, we can well believe in his 
possession of that wonderful vision which so well served him in 
his long and arduous journeys, and surprised even the keen- 
sighted Indian. 
J. E. H. 
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Hampstead Heath Protection Society. —We have received the first 
Report of this useful Society, together with a reprint of numerous extracts from 
the public press on their cause. We shall return to this subject shortly, and in 
the meanwhile will only recommend the Society to all Londoners. The subscrip- 
tion is half-a-crown, and the Treasurer, S. R. Scott, Esq., Lloyd’s Bank, Rosslyn 
Hill. 
Our Animal Friends for March and April. In the former number of our 
American contemporary is a very level-headed article on “ The Necessity and 
Humanity of Destroying Homeless Animals,” from which we extract the 
following : — 
“ If homeless dogs could be simply exterminated, there would be no rabies ; 
there could be no hydrophobia; and there would be no annual terror of hydro- 
phobia. And then, the dog race might be universally delivered from the horrible 
infliction of the muzzle. It is the dread of hydrophobia which causes whole com- 
