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40 Species." The method pursued is in alternate columns—Status of British Isles, and Status Devonshire,—to denote whether the species is Resident, Summer Visitor, Winter Visitor, or Straggler. Recent additions to the British List are appended.

As to Devonshire, Mr. Evans reports that the "county, as might be expected from its great extent and varied physical characteristics, is visited by an extraordinary number of species. It can claim, approximately, three-fourths of the resident nesting-birds of our islands, two-thirds of the summer residents, forty-two out of forty-three winter residents, and seven-eighths of the stragglers. There are, in fact, eighty-four residents, thirty-four summer residents, forty-two winter residents, and one hundred and twenty accidental visitors—all together, four-fifths of the birds ever found in the whole kingdom."

the well-known editor of the Science and Natural History Department of the 'Yorkshire Weekly Post,' is engaged in the production of a new Guide to Lakeland, in which special chapters will be given on "Natural History," "Angling," "Scandinavian Elements in Lakeland Places, Names," &c.

' des Biologistes; organe international de Zoologie, Botanique, Physiologie et Psychologique' has recently appeared, and the second number (20th November, 1897) is now before us. It is published in Paris, under the direction of Dr. Alfred Binet and Dr. Victor Henri, issued by C. Reinwald, with Schleicher Frères as "éditeurs." It is largely a means of communication between naturalists and others by questions and answers, in fact, on the principle of our well-known literary weekly, 'Notes and Queries.' It also professes to give a 'Sommaire de Periodiques' on General Biology, but this seems confined to a list of contents only.

' fur Aquarien- und Terrarienfreunde,' von Dr. E. Zernecke, published at Berlin by Gustav Schmidt, is the latest addition to the literature on the successful management of Aquaria and Vivaria. Plants suitable for the aquarium are not only well described and illustrated, but their growth and management also dealt with. Amongst the suitable inhabitants of the fresh-water aquarium, several fish are enumerated and figured which are somewhat seldom seen in aquaria in this country, such as members of the tropical and subtropical American genera Pimelodus and Callichthys, as well as the "Paradise" and "Telescope" fishes (Polyacanthus), the Gurami (Osphromenus), and the "Kletterfisch" or, as known to ourselves, "Climbing Perch" (Anabas scandens), from the Oriental region. The