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Rh are especially abundant about the hot overflow from the Lake Geyser Basin. The hot water flows for a time on the surface, and Trout may be taken immediately under these currents, and they have also been known to rise to a fly through a hot scalding surface. The Utah Trout not only lives in an alkaline lake, but thrives there, growing to a weight of twelve or more pounds; while a species of Salmon-Trout (Salmo bathæcetor), found in Lake Crescent, Washington, lives in deep water, in some places over seven hundred feet, and does not come to the surface at any season of the year.

The illustrations of this book are very beautiful, especially to an old angler who now no longer follows the craft. But these pages promote one considerable reflection, which is, that when fish are less stndiedstudied [sic] to be hooked, or primarily watched for that purpose, an observant naturalist may find a new field; we want Gilbert White to follow Isaac Walton.

as late Forest Surveyor for the North-West Provinces, and Deputy Conservator of Forests in the Central Provinces and Gorakhpur, has had unlimited opportunities for observing the natural history features of a varied faunistic region; his official duties frequently took him to little visited spots; his love of hunting wild game increased his experience, and he has written a book which may be well placed near Hooker's now classical "Himalayan Journals." The narrative, however, is not confined to the forest regions, and some of the most interesting chapters describe a journey to the roof of the world on the Tibetan frontier, an expedition which included the hunting of the Wild Yak (Bos grunniens), and that ancestral Sheep—Ovis ammon. On the mountain slopes near Gurla Mandhata the ground "seemed to be the breeding-place of all the Larks in India. Their nests were so numerous that one ran the chance of treading on them frequently. Indeed, all the birds and (other) animals except the Yaks were quite tame in this strange country. The mother Larks would sit within a yard of your feet, and almost let you put your hand on them, and the