Recently pvbUshed Ornithological Works. 5(J3 



Col. Trby includes 335 species as certainly found on one or 

 the other side of the Straits, besides naming 25 more as pos- 

 sil)ly occurring there ; but he adds that '^doubtless many other 

 species are to be found as stragglers ; and so local are birds in 

 Southern Spain, that perhaps some may be resident, and over- 

 looked in consequence of the exact locality they frequent 

 having been unvisited." "VYe are sorry to see that he has fol- 

 lowed Mr. Sharpe in the nomenclature of the diurnal birds of 

 prey. We take this opportunity of saying that the Accipiter 

 korschnn of S. G. Gmelin is certainly not the Falco mujrans 

 of Boddaert, and therefore to call the Black Kite Milvuslor- 

 schun is wrong. We must also protest against Circus cine- 

 raceus being named C. pxjgargns. Any but the most cursory 

 inspection of Albin's plate, on which alone, according to Mr. 

 Sharpe (but according to no one else), Linnaeus founded his 

 Falco pyyaryus, Avill show that it is a composite design, having 

 been drawn from a specimen of C. cyaneus and coloured from 

 one of C. cineraceus. The specific name pyyaryus was long 

 ago most properly consigned to limbo ; and Mr. Sharpe did 

 most inconsiderately in attempting its revival. In conclusion, 

 we must remark with pleasure that Col. Irby's book is accom- 

 panied by two useful maps ; and herein, as in many other 

 respects, we commend his example to the authors of faunistic 

 works. 



Mr. Harting's volume on our Summer Migrants^ forms 

 a useful addition to our home literature, and will, we doubt 

 not, be appreciated by those who, residing in the countiy and 

 following out-()f-dt)or pursuits, have frequent opportunities 

 of seeing the birds ]Mr. Harting writes about in their summer 

 quarters. Forty-nine species come under Mr. Harting's defi- 

 nition of " summer migrants,'^ amongst which several strag- 

 glers, such as the Rufous and Orphean Warblers, are included. 

 The accounts of most of the species are headed by a woodcut by 

 Bewick — the publishers (Messrs. Bickers and Son) possessing 



* Our Summer MigiMiit* : an Account of tho Migi-atory Birds which 

 pass the Summer in tlie British Islands. By .7. E. Harting, F.L.S. &c. 

 8 vo, pp. 330. London: 1875 (Bickers & Son). 



