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REVIEW. 
PART II. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
REVIEW. 
THE FIELD NATURALIST’S MAGAZINE, 
And Review of Animals, Plants, Minerals, the Structure of the Earth, and Ap¬ 
pearances of the Sky. 
CONDUCTED BY JAMES RENNIE, ESQ. M. A. ETC. 
8 vo. Monthly Numbers, Is. each. 
Of this Work we have read the three first Numbers, and have found them both 
interesting and instructive; each is illustrated with numerous wood cuts, and 
contains 48 pages. The Contents are composed of facts in Natural History, 
observed both by the Author himself and various other individuals, together 
with extracts from American Ornithology and translations of Le Vaillant’s Birds 
of Africa, and many other valuable and expensive Works, in French, Latin, 
Greek, German, Dutch, &c. &c. which were all our readers capable of reading 
in their originals could not obtain them except by a great cost. There is also 
a collection of short interesting scraps, called a “ Chapter of Varieties” gathered 
from various Sources : we have no hesitation in recommending it to any of our 
friends, as a book well worthy their attention. We have extracted some few 
things, that our readers may be able to see the nature of the Work; we are not 
aware, that these are the most interesting or valuable, but we rather selected 
them in consequence of their being easily detached in a small space, giving the 
whole meaning without any mutilation. No. 1, commences with an Article by 
the Author himself, on 
Eagle-Shooting in the Alps. —“ The peeping curiosity, staring wonder, 
or hostile antipathy, manifested by all day-flying birds towards Owls, is taken 
advantage of on the Continent for several purposes, hut for none more interest¬ 
ing than that of Eagle-Shooting. When the goat-herds on the Alps, therefore, 
find their flocks diminished, and the Chamois-hunters find their sport spoiled by 
the depredations of an eagle, or a lammer-geyer (Gypaetus barbatus. StorrJ 
haunting a particular district, they prepare to lure him to his destruction by 
means of an owl. The largest species, such as an eagle-owl, (Bubo maximus, 
SibbaldJ is always chosen, when it can be procured for this purpose, the smal¬ 
ler species being less likely to attract the attention of large birds. The owl is 
chained by the legs to a post in some conspicuous place, so as to be seen at a 
