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“AN AMATEUR ANGLER” is an observer of nature as well as an enthusiastic Waltonian, the result being that these holiday sketches contain here and there an observation of interest to naturalists. Referring to the growing scarcity of kingfishers he says, “This is partly owing to the fact that they have the credit of being destructive enemies of young trout; the fact is, they do feed on little fishes, but not so much on trout as on minnows, dace, sticklebacks, miller's thumbs, and even leeches.” The book contains several illustrations of rural scenes.
An Old Man's Holidays.
By The Amateur Angler. Pp. xii + 140. (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1900.)
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An Old Man's Holidays . Nature 63, 106 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/063106b0
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