. British birds. Birds. m/m5 Snowdeii Slights, Wildfowler. By Sj'dney H. Smith. Crown 8vo., 117 pp. and nearly 50 Plates from Photographs by the author. (York : T. A. J. Waddington.) 3s. 6d. In his preface, the author states that his principal object in ^\â riting this book has been to give a brief sketch of the life and Mork of that fine old character, Snowden Slights, of East Cottingwith, well Ioioanti as the " Last of the Yorkshire ; As the author for two-thirds of his life has known his subject intimately, he is naturally in a position to describe his qualities, chara
. British birds. Birds. m/m5 Snowdeii Slights, Wildfowler. By Sj'dney H. Smith. Crown 8vo., 117 pp. and nearly 50 Plates from Photographs by the author. (York : T. A. J. Waddington.) 3s. 6d. In his preface, the author states that his principal object in ^\â riting this book has been to give a brief sketch of the life and Mork of that fine old character, Snowden Slights, of East Cottingwith, well Ioioanti as the " Last of the Yorkshire ; As the author for two-thirds of his life has known his subject intimately, he is naturally in a position to describe his qualities, character and craft, and to relate his varied experiences in a sympathetic manner. In this the author has been undoubtedly successful, and has thus produced an eminently readable little book wliich all naturalistsâsportsmen and wildfowlers in particularâcannot fail to find interesting. This is hardly the place to say more on the main part of the book, except that we are grateful to Mr. Smith for putting on record before it is too late the simple life of the last and perhaps the most famous of a disappearing race. It remains however to say a few words on Chapter VI., which is devoted to a list of the birds of that portion of the lower Derwent Valley in which Slights followed his calling. This district, situated to the south-east of York, is but a small one covering no more than sixteen square miles, and is some sixty-five miles distant from the sea. Although a light railway is in course of construction through it, the district is still a remote one and this, coupled Mitli the fact that large areas are flooded every winter, accounts for the length of the list (127 species) that the author has been able to compile ; while there can be little doubt that a contributory factor not referred to by him, is that the district is traversed by one of the numerous subsidiary migration-routes which radiate north and west- wards from the Humber. The chief feature of this list, as perhaps is to b
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