Part 17

T _Taccocua leschenaulti_, 14 Tailor bird, 7, 16, 176 _Tamarix articulata_, 72 _Teesa_, the, 32-6 _Terpsiphone_, 179 Tern, 110-15 —, black-bellied, 112 —, Indian river, 112 —, large crested, 113 —, whiskered, 112 Terry, Captain H., 124 _Thamnobia cambaiensis_, 204 Thayer, Mr., 204 _The Evening Telegraph_, 107 _The Irish Naturalist_, 109 _The Yorkshire Gazette_, 145 _Thir-thira_, 164 Thompson, Mr. Seton, 121 Thrush, 33, 230 —, laughing, 190 Thurston, Mr. Edgar, 85 Tickell, 128 _Tillyer_, 192 _Temenuchus pagodarum_, 16 Tit, 190, 238 Toad, 185, 186 Topsell, 94 _Totanus hypoleucus_, 111 _Tower Menagerie_, 98 Tree-creeper, 190 Tree-pie, Indian, 211, 231 Tristram, Canon, 86 _Turtur cambayensis_, 200

U Ugly ducklings, 214-19 _Upupa indica_, 76

V Verditer flycatcher, 181, 182 _Verri chinda_, 227 Vulture, 105, 254 —, scavenger, 5

W Wagtail, 241 —, grey, 31 —, grey-headed, 31 —, masked, 31 —, pied, 29, 30 —, white, 31 Wagtails, Indian, 28-31 Wallace, 84, 158, 183 Wallaceism, 81 Warbler, 239 Warning colouration, 79, 204 Watson, Mr. H. E., 102 Weaver-bird, 7, 172 White ants, 188 White-browed fantail flycatcher, 174 White-eye, Indian, 8, 137-42, 176, 190, 238 Williams, Mr. W. J., 109 Woodpecker, 190 Wren-warbler, 7, 172 —, rufous-fronted, 174

X _Xantholæma hæmatocephala_, 74

Y Yellowhammer, 33 Yellow Ribbon Army, 218

Z _Zosterops palpebrosa_, 137-42, 176

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

BOMBAY DUCKS: An Account of some of the Everyday Birds and Beasts found in a Naturalist’s El Dorado. With numerous Illustrations reproduced from Photographs by Captain Fayrer, I.M.S. Demy 8vo. BIRDS OF THE PLAINS. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. INDIAN BIRDS: Being a Key to the Common Birds of the Plains of India. Demy 8vo. (With Frank Finn). THE MAKING OF SPECIES. Demy 8vo.

THE MAKING OF SPECIES

BY DOUGLAS DEWAR, B.A., (Cantab.), I.C.S., F.Z.S., AND FRANK FINN, B.A., (Oxon.), F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

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_PRESS OPINIONS_

_Christian World._—“In an interesting preface, Messrs. Dewar and Finn enlighten us as to the origin of their work.”

_Daily Chronicle._—“There is a breezy, refreshing air about the book.”

_Birmingham Post._—“Messrs. Dewar’s and Finn’s volume shows the value of such first-hand experience.”

_Literary World._—“The book is certainly to be welcomed for the concise way in which it deals with the greatest problem of biology.”

_Outlook._—“‘The Making of Species’ is a book of knowledge and originality. Messrs. Dewar and Finn are capable investigators. This work is thoroughly characteristic of our day. A long volume full of interest and very clearly written.”

_New Age._—“The book is handsomely got up and fully illustrated.”

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BOMBAY DUCKS

AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE EVERYDAY BIRDS & BEASTS FOUND IN A NATURALIST’S EL DORADO

By DOUGLAS DEWAR, F.Z.S., I.C.S.

With Numerous Illustrations from Photographs of Living Birds By Captain F. D. S. FAYRER, I.M.S.

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_PRESS OPINIONS._

_Spectator._—“Mr. Douglas Dewar’s book is excellent. . . . A feature of the book is the photographs of birds by Captain Fayrer. They are most remarkable, and quite unlike the usual wretched snapshots and blurred reproductions with which too many naturalists’ books are nowadays illustrated.”

_Standard._—“The East has ever been a place of wonderment, but the writer of ‘Bombay Ducks’ brings before Western eyes a new set of pictures. . . . The book is entertaining, even to a reader who is not a naturalist first and a reader afterwards. . . . The illustrations cannot be too highly praised.”

_Daily News._—“This new and sumptuous book. . . . Mr. Dewar gives us a charming introduction to a great many interesting birds.”

_Pall Mall Gazette._—“Most entertaining dissertations on the tricks and manners of many birds and beasts in India.”

_Graphic._—“The book is written in a most readable style, light and easy, yet full of information, and not overburdened with scientific words and phrases. . . . The habits of the different birds are fully described, often in a very amusing and interesting manner.”

BIRDS OF THE PLAINS

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_Globe._—“Mr. Dewar is not only a keen and patient observer, but he is gifted with the descriptive art in high degree, and his vivacious style communicates the characters and habits of birds with unerring fidelity and infinite spirit.”

_Sportsman._—“Mr. Dewar has a delightfully simple and quaintly humorous way of expressing himself, and his clever word pictures of bird life make charming reading.”

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_Daily Chronicle._—“Here is a work worthy of all commendation to those who love birds, and is ably seconded by Captain Fayrer’s excellent photographs.”

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BEING A KEY TO THE COMMON BIRDS OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA

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_Spectator._—“The present book is by Mr. Douglas Dewar, a charming writer, whose earlier books on birds we have had the pleasure of recommending. The book is most carefully compiled, and much ingenuity is displayed in framing this artificial analysis.”

_Pall Mall Gazette._—“This practical and useful work. Familiarity with these pages would enable the average man in a few weeks to know all the birds he meets in an Indian station.”

_Athenæum._—“Mr. Dewar is a careful guide, already known as a careful observer and entertaining chronicler of the ways of Indian birds.”

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ORNITHOLOGICAL AND OTHER ODDITIES

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_Shooting Times._—“The volume is well illustrated, and is certainly a very amusing and highly instructive publication.”

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_Pall Mall Gazette._—“This interesting book.”

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_Indian Daily Telegraph._—“The sportsman in this country will find much to amuse and instruct in Mr. Stebbing’s book.”

_Indian Review._—“There are many good things in this book, which may be commended to all sportsmen, and should find a place on the bookshelf of all lovers of nature.”

TWO DIANAS IN SOMALILAND

THE RECORD OF A SHOOTING TRIP.

By AGNES HERBERT. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Price, 12_s._ 6_d._ net. Postage 6_d._ extra.

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_The Liverpool Post._—“It is a most chatty and vivacious account. The book can be enjoyed by all, sportsmen or not, and it will assuredly take an honoured place among its kind.”

_The Daily News._—“Certain to receive a friendly welcome from the general reader. A keen eye for the humorous side of things, a fluent and lively pen, and occasionally the display of a somewhat caustic wit, make the volume most amusing reading. We congratulate the authoress on the lively narrative. One can only hope that she will once again go a-hunting, and once again tell its story.”

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_The Dundee Advertiser._—“The book in some respects is marvellous. It is the revelation of a sportswoman’s mind. Miss Herbert has a facile pen.”

_The Manchester Courier._—“Miss Herbert’s book is written light-heartedly. It is a delightfully humorous and witty record. It is also an assuming one.”

_The Daily Telegraph._—“This finely-printed and well-illustrated volume is a thoroughly entertaining and amusing record. Every sportsman will find this brisk and vivacious narrative to his taste.”

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_The Daily Chronicle._—“You need not be a sportsman—or a sportswoman—to enjoy this book, because it has a vivacity which would carry any reader along. It it written with the merry heart that goes all the day, and it has much to record besides lion killing.”

_The Evening Standard._—“We are sure that no such story was ever related with greater charm or incisiveness. The volume is very welcome.”

TWO DIANAS IN ALASKA

By AGNES HERBERT & a SHIKÁRI.

With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Price, 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

_SOME PRESS OPINIONS._

_The Sportsman._—“The warm and lengthy praise we gave to the companion volume ‘Two Dianas in Somaliland’ might be repeated. They should have a place in every sportsman’s library; nay, in far more, for the piquancy of the style, and the charming friendliness of it all, enthral the reader.”

_The Field._—“The story is told by Miss Herbert with all the free and joyous spirit which characterised her former volume; the same love of exploration, admiration for the beauty in nature, keenness for sport, and withal a womanly restraint and tender-heartedness.”

_Country Life._—“Miss Herbert’s hand has lost nothing of its sprightliness, she describes graphically and with never failing nerve many exciting hunts. It is to the full as daring and lively as the Somaliland volume.”

_Vanity Fair._—“The most fascinating sporting book I have read this year, and quite the best written. In a dozen ways I found the book captivating. Miss Herbert’s success is as emphatic in book-making as in hunting.”

_The Academy._—“We commend ‘Two Dianas in Alaska’ to many readers . . . an amusing and picturesque journey. Scenery is powerfully described, and so are the effects of light and shade and the flight of birds. But the ways of the moose provide the most attractive reading of all.”

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_Ladies’ Field._—“Not less delightful than ‘Two Dianas in Somaliland.’ If anyone turns aside from this book because he or she is indifferent to sport they will lose some very pleasant hours. It is a charming book, and has not a dull page in it from first to last.”

_Daily Graphic._—“The whole book is amazing good reading. The best book of sport and travel that we have seen this season.”

_Yorkshire Post._—“This is a book of high spirits, mixed with philosophy. In these prosaic days a romance from real life is not to be resisted.”

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_The Manchester Courier._—“Those who had the good fortune to encounter the charming record of the ‘Two Dianas in Somaliland’ will want no recommendation to the equally sprightly description of their adventures in Alaska. Miss Herbert has a ready sense of humour, and her wayside jottings are inimitable.”

_Fortnightly Review._—“Miss Herbert has a happy knack of amusing the reader on almost every page of her bright narrative, and this alone places her above the majority of writers on travel. It is with her asides, her not unkindly satire, her unabated philosophy, that Miss Herbert attracts the reader.”

_Pall Mall Gazette._—“Miss Herbert has a pretty wit, word-pictures of magic beauty. The book is witty, picturesque, exciting, and the effect on the tired brain of a dweller in cities is that of a breeze bringing health from a salutary land.”

A VAGABOND IN THE CAUCASUS

WITH SOME NOTES OF HIS EXPERIENCES AMONG THE RUSSIANS

By STEPHEN GRAHAM

_With Sixteen Illustrations and Two Maps_ _Demy 8vo_, 12s. 6d. _net_

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_Morning Post._—“It is a good book, full of suggestiveness, promise, and horizon.”

_Westminster Gazette._—“Mr. Graham’s literary touch has the delightful intimate comradeship of the born wanderer, and his book is all too short.”

_Daily News._—“A book of impressions and adventures with an unusually fine literary flavour.”

_Standard._—“. . . written with keen insight and literary skill . . . abounds with practical hints for prospective travellers.”

_Evening Standard._—“Mr. Graham has had adventures. He relates them well. His style is direct and racy. Everything is real . . . entertaining.”

_Truth._—“A perfectly delightful book.”

_Academy._—“Mr. Graham writes with the intimate personal touch that gives distinction to Stevenson’s ‘Travels with a Donkey’ and Belloc’s ‘Path to Rome.’”

_Observer._—“Mr. Graham’s experiences make an entertaining book.”

_Graphic._—“An attractive book.”

_Country Life._—“You follow his adventures with the same interest you would follow an engrossing novel, because you see the man and feel something of his passion.”

_Bookman._—“In every way this is a most charming and attractive book. Mr. Graham’s views are fresh and original.”

_Shooting Times._—“Distinctly entertaining.”

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RIFLE AND ROMANCE IN THE INDIAN JUNGLE: Being the Record of Thirteen Years of Indian Jungle Life. By Major A. I. R. Glasfurd (Indian Army). With numerous Illustrations by the Author and Reproductions from Photographs. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ net.

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_Academy._—“Search where we will through this entertaining book, we always happen upon sound literature, fine description, good natural history, and lively adventure. The author is clearly in love with his subject, and the pictures of jungle scenery and jungle life are wonderfully vivid . . . in all respects a first-rate book.”

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