7 JULY 1888, Page 24

British Birds. By W. Harcourt Bath. " The Young Collector."

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—A guide to British birds, their appearance, nests, and eggs. The descriptions are very slight indeed, and might have been well made more minute; still, the bulk, a little over a hundred pages, is a convenience not to be despised. An article by Mr. Dowdier Sharpe at the end of the volume seems to us to recommend bird-collecting in a somewhat wholesale manner. However, the young bird-collector will be thankful for the direc- tions in regard to preserving, even if he is not able to furnish his museum so completely as Mr. Sharpe suggests.