Recent Ornithological Publications. 



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short bill, aud crouches forward, making a hissing noise. It 

 looks a strange compound of the young Wryneck and King- 

 fisher. They do not stand upright till nearly fledged. Their 

 crests develope at once, but their bills do not acquire their full 

 length till the following year. I am writing this note about the 

 Hoopoes from memory. I forget in what year I made observa- 

 tions on their nesting, and I have not now time to hunt through 

 my file of note-books. As the history of the Hoopoe appears to 

 be so little known at home, I will pay special attention to it in 

 future. 



XIV. — Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 

 1, English. 

 The Ninth and Tenth parts of Mr. Gould's ' Birds of Great 

 Britain' made their appearance on the 1st of August and Sep- 

 tember last respectively, and fully sustain the encomiums that 

 have been passed on their predecessors. The following is a list 

 of the species they illustrate : — 



Part IX. 



Thrush. 



Eagle Owl. 

 Roller. 

 Woodcock. 

 Squacco Heron. 

 Stock-Dove. 

 Crested Lark. 

 Tawny Pipit. 

 Tree- Pipit. 



Blackbird. 



Cream- coloured Courser. 



Lesser Redpole. 



Mealy Redpole. 



Savi's Warbler. 



Razorbill. 



Part 

 Honey-Buzzar d . 

 Jackdaw. 

 Goosander. 

 Hooded Merganser. 

 Robin or Redbreast. 

 Yellowhammer or Yellow 



Bunting. 

 Cirl Bunting. 

 Ortolan Bunting. 



Anthus campestris, whose appearance as a " British Bird " 

 (a title to which it has far better claims than many other species) 

 was originally recorded in ' The Ibis ' (1863, pp. 37-39), here 



Grey Phalarope (winter 



plumage). 

 Ditto (summer plumage). 

 Red-necked Phalarope. 

 Tiu'nstone. 

 Marsh-Tit. 



Grasshopper Warbler. 

 Sabine's Gull. 



