NOTICES AND REVIEWS 271 



The number for April, 1917, contains an rbituary 

 notice with photograph, of the famous big game hunter 

 and naturalist of South i^frica, the late Capt. F. 0. 

 Selous, D.S.O., who was killed in action in East Africa, 

 4th January, 1917, at the age of sixty-seven. 



The number for July, 1917, contains a paper on a col- 

 lection of birds from two districts of B.E.A. by Lieut. 

 C. W. Mackworth-Praed, M.B.O.U., Scots Guards. 



In the number for January, 1918, is an interesting 

 article by E. C. Stuart-Baker on '^Erythrism in Birds 

 Eggs." The author divides this property into 2 classes, 

 normal and abnormal, and considers the orders^ families, 

 genera, species and sub-species in sequence as written. 

 Our Vice-President for Rhodesia, contributes a paper on 

 " Rejections by Birds of Eggs unlike their own, with 

 Remarks on some of the Cuckoo problems." Mr. Swyn- 

 nerton details a host of interesting experiments carried 

 out by him, and discusses the subject generally. 



In the number for April, 1918, Mr. Hugh Gladstone 

 gives a ^^ Note on the structure of the Feather" (Plates 

 V.-VII.}, and there appears also an account of the annual 

 genera' meeting of the B.O.U., from which we notice that 

 Dr. W Engle Clarke, L.L.D., F.L.S., FR.S.E., was 

 elected President. 



The number for July contains a long paper on the 

 Birds of Anglo-Egyptian Soudan, Part I. Corvidae 

 FringiUidae by W. L. Sclater. M.A., etc. This refers to 

 the Pafiseres only and we see that two new forms (geo 

 graphical races or sub-species) from South Africa have 

 been described, Si/lvietta rufescens transvaalensis from 

 Rustenburg, Transvaal, and Hirundo piieUii nnitates 

 from Pinetown, Natal. 



In the number for October, 1918, Mr. G. L. Bates gives 

 an Instructive paper on the ^^ Reversed under Wing- 

 coverts of Birds and their modifications, as exemplified 

 in the Birds of West Africa." Mr. B. B. Riviere writes 

 on " European Birds met during a Short Visit to South 

 Africa." Mr. Riviere gives October 5th (Cape. Town), 



