354 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



70. Hoffmann on the Woodcock. 



[Die Waldschnepfe. Ein Monographischer Beitrag zur Jagdzoologie 

 von Dr. Julius Hoffmann. Zweite vermehrte Auflage. 8vo. Stuttgart : 



1887.] 



An enthusiastic essay of 196 pages upon Scolopax rusti- 

 culu, and its manners, habits, and ways of life, also upon 

 Woodcock-shooting as practised in Germany. 



71. Kolombatovic on the Vertebrates of Dalmatia. 



[Imenik Kraljeisjaka Dalmacije. ii Dio Dvozivci, Gmazovi, i Ribo. 

 Terze Aggiunte ai Vertebriti della Dalmazia. Prof. Juro Kolombatovic. 

 Svo. Spalato: 1886.] 



This pamphlet, if we understand it rightly, contains, besides 

 an enumeration of the Reptilia, Amphibia, and Pisces of 

 Dalmatia, written in Sclavonic, a third supplementary list 

 of additions to the vertebrates of the same district in Italian. 

 Among them the occurrence of 7 species of birds is recorded 

 and remarks are added. 



72. Lawrence on a new Thrush. 



[Description of a new Species of Thrush from the Island of Grenada, 

 West Indies. By George N. Lawrence. Ann. New York Acad, of Sci. 

 vol. iv. p. 23.] 



jMr. Lawrence describes a new JSIock-thrush of the genus 

 Margarops as M. albiventris. Two specimens, male and 

 female, were obtained by IVIr. J. G. Wells in Grenada. The 

 species is allied to M. montanus. 



73. Leverkuhn's ' Ornithological Excursions.^ 



[Ornithologische Exkursionen im Friihling 1886. Von Paul Leverkiihn. 

 Monatschr. d. deutsch. Ver. z. Schiitze d. Vogelwelt, 1886, pp. 241, 256, 

 286, 322.] 



Herr Leverkiihn kindly sends us an extra copy of his account 

 of his ornithological journey from Clausthal to Kiel^ and to 

 the island of Sylt, and of other minor excursions made in the 

 spring of 1886. In Holstein many nesting-places of Gulls 



