done so on any previous year of my experience, as far as I have been able to judge, after any long interval, till the following breeding season; 'and as I have been constantly on the same ground both winter and summer during the last three years, it is possible I may not be mistaken. If this be the case, the argument in favour of the immediate destruction of the female will preponderate over that urged in behalf of leaving the nest unmolested till the young birds are fledged, with the chance of trapping both the old birds; for, even admitting this method to be generally successful, I presume it is not invariably a certainty. But what is an infallible certainty connected with this plan, is a vast sacrifice of game, and that at the most important season of the year, just when birds are breeding; so that you may estimate your loss, when henharriers and falcons are left to breed, not by single birds, but by packs; and as the young birds would not be fledged for three weeks or a month from the time when the first opportunity of killing the hen bird at the nest might have presented itself, I leave it to those who are cognisant of the destructiveness of these hawks to form their own opinion on the subject. THE END. A CATALOGUE OP NEW WORKS IN GENERAL LITERATURE, Russell's Life of Lord William Russell ,, Life and Correspondence ,, Wesley .-.-.; Waterton's Autobiography and Essays •' Books of General Utility. Acton's Modern Cookery Book ,, Lawyer - - „ On Making Wills ,, Lady's Companion ,, (Mrs.) Amateur Gardener „ BiographicalTreasury ,t Scientific Treasury ,, Treasury of History - ,, Natural History - Pocket and the Stud ... Pycroft's English Reading - Short Whiat > Thomson's Interest Tables Webster's Domestic Economy Wilmot's Abridgment of Blackstone's Botany and Gardening. Conversations on Botany * - . Hooker's British Flora - 10 PUBLISHEd BY LONGMAN,BROWN, GREEN, And LONGMANS, 39, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. CLASSIFIED INDEX. Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Pages Cecil's Stud Farm 7 Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture - 14 ,, Self-Instruction for Farmers, etc. 14 ,, (Mrs.) Lady'sComitry Companion 14 Low's Elements of Agriculture - - 15 „ Domesticated Animals - - - 14 Arts, Manufactures, and Bonnie's Catechism of the Steam Engine 6 Brande's Dictionary of Science, etc. Chevreul on Colour - Cresy's Encycio. of Civil Engineering Eastlake on Oil Painting - Gwilt's Encyclopaedia of Architecture Jameson's Saered and Legendary Art Ure's Dictionary of Arts, etc. Biography. Arago's Autobiography - Bodenstedt and Wagner's Schamyl I Chesterton's Autobiography - Freeman's Life of Kirby - Holcroft's Memoirs ... I Holland's (1-onl) Memoirs Merivale's Memoirs of Cicero ,, Guide to Kew Gardens 10 . London: Printed by M. Mason, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, |