Essays and Photographs: Some Birds of the Canary Islands and
South Africa. By Henry E. Harria. (H. H. Porter. 21e.)—We have bad a number of books recently published, illustrated with photographs of wild birds and their nests. Mr. Harris has spent some months in the Canary Islands and Cape Colony armed with a good camera and an inexhaustible stock of patience. The photographs which he has obtained (over a hundred of which are reproduced in the present volume) are excellent, and many are of exceptional interest, for they must be the first photographs from life taken of many of the birds. The Canary Islands possess an insular fauna of their own, and are also visited by European and African birds. At the Cape Mr. Harris visited various dis- tricts—with varied kinds of birds—and the reader must be re- ferred to the book, of which the illustrations are the chief part. The plates are explained and the whole connected by an unpre- tentious narrative of travel and some notes and observations on the various species.
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