230 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



72. Meyer on Birds' Nests and Eggs from the East Indies. 



[Notizeu liber Vogel Nester und Eier aus dem ostindischen Arcliipel, 

 speciell liber die durcb Herru 0. Ribbe von deu Aru-Inseln jlingst 

 erbalteneu. Vou A. B. Meyer. Zeitscbr. f. d. g. Orn. 1884, p. 269.] 



Eighty-two species of birds^ mostly from the Aroo group, 

 are noticed, and information of different kinds supplied about 

 them. Rhectes analogus, from Aroo, and Xanthotis rubiensis, 

 from Rubi, are described as new. Two young females of 

 Eclectus roratus, hatched in captivity at Karlsruhe (c/. 

 Gefiederte Welt, 1884, p. 413), are figured. Many nests and 

 eggs are described, and a selection of eggs figured, amongst 

 which is a (damaged) one of Paradisea apoda. 



73. ' The Naturalist.' 



[Tbe Naturalist : a Journal of Natural History for the North of 

 England. Edited by W. Denison Roebuck and W. Eagle Clarke. Nos. 

 109-115, August 1884 to February 1885. 8vo. London and Leeds.] 



This is, we presume, a continuation of the 'Yorkshire 

 Naturalist ' under a more general title. Be this as it may, 

 the first of the parts before us contains some very interesting 

 papers and items of information from the Editors and such 

 contributors as Messrs. Bolam, Cordeaux, Whitaker, and 

 Lord Walsingham. Mr. Bolam records the capture of the 

 Red-breasted Flycatcher {Muscicapa parva) in his garden at 

 Berwick-on-Tweed, on the 5th October 1883, the fourth occur- 

 rence in the British Islands. In No. 112 the Rev. H. H. 

 Slater records the Barred Warbler {Sylvia nisoria) obtained 

 on the coast of Holderness on the 28th August, and exhibited 

 at a recent Meeting of the Zoological Society. A Teng- 

 malm's Owl was obtained on the 18th October, and identified 

 by Mr. W. E. Clarke. The authenticated breeding of the 

 Reed-Warbler in Cheshire, the furthest north-western locality 

 on record, is interesting. In addition to the numerous 

 .articles and notes on birds. No. 115 contains a useful biblio- 

 graphy for 1884 of papers relating to the natural history 

 of the north of England ; and so far this Magazine appears 

 to be worthy of high and hearty praise. 



