108 Recent Orniiholo(/ical Publications. 



VIII. — Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. English. 



Mr. Gould has produced two more parts of his ' Birds of 

 Great Britain', the species treated of being as follows : — 



Part XIII. August 1st, 1868. 



Kite or Glead. 

 Marsli-Harrier, adult. 



youug. 



Scops Eared Owl. 

 Tree-Creeper. 

 Great Grey Shrike. 

 Rose-breasted Shrike. 

 Snow-Buntingr or Snowflake. 



Grey Wagtail, in summer. 



, in winter. 



Alpine Accentor. 

 Hedge-Accentor or Hedge- 



Span'ow. 

 Red-legged Partridge. 

 Spoonbill. 

 Gad wall. 



Part XIV. September 1st, 1868. 



Wood -Pigeon or Cushat. 



Starling. 



Hoopoe. 



YeUow Wagtail. 



Grey-headed Wagtail. 



Linnet. 



Wheatear. 



Bar-tailed Godwit. 



Black-tailed Godwit. 

 Little Auk. 

 Black Tern. 

 White-winged Tern. 

 Whiskered Tern. 

 Wood-Sandpiper. 

 Manx Shearwater. 



The Rose-breasted Shrike now first makes its appearance in 

 the character of a British species. It is the well-known Lanius 

 minor of Southern Europe. A single example was obtained so 

 long ago as the year 1851 on one of the Scilly Islands, and at 

 the time was taken for a common L. excubitor, under which 

 name its occurrence was recorded by Mr. Rodd (Zoologist, 

 p. 3300). That gentleman subsequently perceived that it was 

 something better, and in the ' Journal of the Royal Institution 

 of CoruwalF for October 1867 (pp. 352, 353) announced it 

 under its rightful name. He also submitted the specimen to 

 Mr. Gould, whose figure in the present work is taken from it. 

 Averse as we are to the practice of including every stray bird 

 of foreign origin among those which are really inhabitants of 

 the country, a more plausible claim may be set up for this 

 Shrike than for many other species, since it may very well have 

 occurred before and been overlooked. In his account of the 

 Spoonbill, Mr. Gould omits any notice of the fact that it for- 

 merly used to breed in England (as witnessed by old Sir Thomas 



