On the Management and Preservation of Game and Ornamental Birds,
and the Laws relating thereto. (Bemrose and Lothian.)—This book is short, rather scanty in detail, and by no means elegant or always cor- rect in style. Still, we should think itlad its uses. It gives a sketch of the habits, appearance, food, haunts, and breeding powers of each kind of game birds, and instructs the owners of game how to assist the processes of nature, or supply them "by artificial means. In a full description of the best mode of hatching, we are told of the necessity of supplying an artificial mother, and one of the most amusing features of this description is that it follows soon after a ludicrous misprint by which the teal is changed into a teat. Another passage which struck us as bearing a meaning beyond the one intended by the author occurs in the account of ruffs and reeves,—" When a reeve alights, the ruffs immediately fall to fighting." Unfortunately, in London and other places they do that without waiting for such provocation.
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