388 Recently published Ornitholoyical Works. 



the feathers liave an organic cause which regulates their 

 shape and their successive alteration. There is a fine 

 coloured frontispiece of Pernis celebensis and Spizaelus 

 lanceolatus, and many excellent woodcuts einl)ellish tlie 

 text. 



52. Meinertzhagen and Hornby on Lapland. 



[Bird Life in an Arctic Spring. The Diaries of Dan Meinertzhagen 

 and R. P. Hornby. 8vo. London, 1899.] 



Parental affection has willed that the diary of Dan Mein- 

 ertzhagen should be printed unrevised, just as it remained 

 when death carried off one of our most promising youug 

 naturalists, and no one who knew the accomplished 

 draughtsman and attractive enthusiast can fail to sympathize 

 with the desire. Under the circumstances, the work must 

 not be seriously criticised ; but we can cordially recommend 

 it to all lovers of nature, as showing the foundation upon 

 which, if he had been spared, a young genius would hai^e 

 raised an enduring edifice. Some of the many illustrations 

 are admirable, and nearly equal to those by Wolf at a similar 

 age. 



53. Munich Oi'nithological Union, Annual Reports, 1897-8. 



[Jahresbericht des Ornithologisehen Vereins Miinchen, fiir 1897 und 

 1898. Ilerausgegeben vom derzeitigen Vorsitzenden Dr. med. C. Parrot. 

 8vo. Miinchen, 1899.] 



jVIunich has always seemed to us rather "^out in the cold" 

 as regards Ornithology, for, except Spix's types, mostly in a 

 wretched and neglected condition, there was little, that we 

 knew of, to attract the bird-lover to the capital of Bavaria. 

 This has now, however, an Ornithological Union, and two 

 years' of its " Proceedings "" are reported in the present 

 volume, w^hich contains several papers of considerable interest, 

 mostly relating to the birds of the country. Dr. C. Parrot 

 appears to have been the worthy fouuder of the institution, 

 and is the editor of its journal. 



