REVIEWS 



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Rev'mvs of Nat. Historij Puhlications. 



''The Ibis, llHi). 



The April issue contains a pajuM' 1>y oiio of our most 

 active Ornitholoj»ical lueinlxMs — Lieut. (1 O. Finch- 

 Davics. Isr S.A.M.K. -Some notes on Hiciaartiis din'csi 

 Guiney r^cu. (TMale III.) ' //. Ii'can'n. 



This is an aecount of tlie auilioi-'s re-discovery of a 

 little-knowu and doubtful sp(M-ies .Mr. Davies .-liows 

 that tlie s]»ecies is valid and jiublishes a lisi <»f tliose in 

 th(^ S.A. Museums, and uives us a beautiful chromo- 

 lithograph of the bird from a paintiuo- l)y himself. He 

 also details the differences between this bird and its 

 closest ally i H. ^piloiinstcj-. i 



The Editor of the " Ibis "", and one time Director <»f rhe 

 S.A. :\ruseum and l^resident of the f^.A.O.r., i W. 

 L. Sclater, M.A., etc.). imblishes "A note on tlie i'uzzards 

 of the Ethio})ian Kei^icn " witli a coloured jdate of a n^nv 

 sub-s])ecies of Hutcn jnl:((l {(in-lieri) froui Somali 'and. 

 The name of the Steppe Buzzard has been chan«>ed fiom 

 Buteo (JcscrforuHi to B. ht'tco niprcnfcr. Mr. Sclater fur 

 ther consideis that Bnico oteophilus is also found m S. 

 Africa. This number also contains an obituary notice of 

 the late President of tlie IJritish Ornithologists T'nion 

 (F. DuCane tJodman) with ]>hoto«ravnre idate. 



The July issue con.tains a i»aper by Lieut. (\)1. R. 

 Meinertzhagen on '• a preliminary study of the relation 

 between geographical Distribution and Migration, with 

 special reference to the Pala^arctic Region ". Mr, F. E. 

 Blaauw contril)utes a paper on "The pi tun age-develop 

 ment of Xcttion torqifatuni, Anaf< inifJulafd. and 

 Poecilonetta erijtltrorhijncJia/^ The twT) last are South 

 African ducks, which he has succeeded in breedino- 



The October No. contains part III. of the list of bird.s 

 of the Anglo-Egyptian Soudan by W. L. Sclater and C. 

 Mackworth Praed (Plate XIX). This part deals wifh the 



