462 JRecently published Ornithological Works. 



di Tommaso Salvadoii. Atti d. R. Accad. d. Scienze d. Torino, Vol. 

 xix. p. 343.] 



This Falcon is the bird figured by Dr. Martorelli, shot near 

 Sassari, Sardinia, in June 1883. It was sent to Mr, J. H. 

 Gurney for his opinion, and was pronounced to be Falco 

 pufiicus, Levaillant. Dr. Salvadori discusses the intricate 

 question of tbe synonymy of this species, so frequently con- 

 founded with its congeners. 



98. Saunders's Edition of YarrelVs ' Birds.' 



[A ffistory of British Birds. By the late William Yarrell, V.P.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. Fourth Edition. Revised to the end of the Second Volume by 

 Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S. ; continued by Howard Saunders, F.L.S., 

 r.Z.S. Parts XXI.-XXV. January-September, 1884.] 



Part XXI. contains the remainder of the Limicolse and 

 some of the GavijB, and Pts. XXII. and XXIII. the rest of 

 the latter family, concluding Vol. III. In deference to the 

 sequence observed in former Editions, and to existing pre- 

 judices, Pt. XXIV. opens with the Petrels, followed by some 

 of the Alcidse, and Pt. XXV. ends with the Steganopodes, 

 leaving only the Herodiones and the Anatidae to complete 

 the work. 



99. Seebohm's ' British Birds and their Eggs.' 



[A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs. 

 By Henry Seebohm, Parts H.-IV, Royal 8vo. London: 1883-84.] 



Mr. Seebohm^s fourth part, which was issued in July last, 

 completes the second volume of his ' History of British Birds 

 and their Eggs,' a work which it is not necessary for us to 

 commend to ornithologists. In spite of what we must 

 venture to call some eccentricities, Mr. Seebohm's book is full 

 of interest. Some of the information conveyed has, perhaps, 

 the charm of novelty ; e. g., that the Common Partridge has, in 

 the eastern counties of England, " been partially exterminated 

 by the Red-legged Partridge, but still occurs locally in these 

 counties.'' Later on we are told that in the eastern counties 



