Recently published Ornithological Works. 19] 



34. Blomefield's ' Reminiscences of Selby.' 



[Reminiscences of Prideaux John Selby, and Twizell House; also 

 brief notices of other North-country Naturalists. By Leonard Blonie- 

 field (late Jeuyns). 8vo. Bath : 1885. (For private circulation.)] 



We have already; noticed (Ibis, 1885, p. 441) the ' Re- 

 miniscences of YarrelP by the veteran Mr. Bloraeficld, and 

 we have now before us a similar but more extensive pamphlet 

 containing his experiences of Selby and others. The author 

 paid four visits to Twizell, making several excursions with 

 Selby in the neighbouring part of Northumberland, on one 

 of which he was present at the third anniversary of the Ber- 

 wickshire Naturalists^ Club, the first of those associations 

 for observations in the field which have since increased in 

 immber, and have, in an unpretending manner, fostered an 

 interest in natural history. Selby's fine collection of birds 

 remains at Twizell House, the property of Selby's third 

 daughter, Lady Tancred ; but at one time it was found to be 

 in a sadly neglected state, and although Mr. Blomefield has 

 been told that its preservation for the future has been 

 assured, he remarks regretfully that the place is no longer 

 to be thought of in connection with naturalists and natural- 

 history pursuits. 



35, Booth on BintisJi Birds. 



[Roufrh Notes on the Birds observed during Twenty Years' Shooting 

 and Collecting in the British Islands. By E. T. Booth. With Plates 

 from Drawings by E. Neale, taken fi'om specimens in the Author's 

 possession. Parts V.-IX. Folio. London : 1883--85.] 



We have unavoidably allowed several of these numbers 

 to remain unnoticed, and now we can only enumerate 

 those species which are regarded by the author as of 

 «utticieut importance to be figured. Part V. contains two 

 plates of the Red-breasted Merganser, adults and young, 

 iind six excellent illustrations of the successive stages of 

 plumaj>e in the Gannet. In Part VI. we see Mr. Neale at 

 his best in his delineations of Ptarmigan (3 plates), com- 

 pared with which the 1 plates of the Arctic Skua seem 



