Recently published Ornithological Works. 54") 



Montrose, the latter being the second case on record for 

 North Britain. The minor notices are valuable, but chiefly of 

 local interest. 



70. Arrigoni clegli Oddi on Veronese Ornithology. 



[Material! per una Fauna Ornitologica Veronese con note di Vittorio 

 Dal Nero del Prof. E. Arrigoni degli Oddi. Atti R. 1st. Veneto Sci., 

 Lett, ed Arti, Iviii. pt. 2, and Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. xxxviii. fasc. 1. 



Note Oruitologiche della Provincia di Verona del Socio Prof. E. 

 Arrigoni degli Oddi.] 



These memoirs contain the results of the author's continued 

 studies of everything connected "with the avifauna of his 

 native province, in compiling which he has receiverl great 

 assistance from Sign. Vittorio Dal Nero, of Verona. In the 

 first of them a description of the physical districts of the 

 Province of Verona is followed by a complete bibliography 

 of the literature on the subject, an account of the special 

 collections of the birds of the district, a description of the 

 various modes of shooting and capturing birds practised, and 

 a complete nominal list of the species, 330 in number. In 

 the second memoir is a long series of field-notes on the 330 

 species, containing many particulars of interest to the student 

 of Italian birds. 



71. 'The Auk: 



[The .\uk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. xvii. Nos. 1 

 and 2, January and April 1900.] 



The coloured frontispiece to the January number illus- 

 trates a paper by Dr. J. A. Allen on the Little Black Rail 

 {Porzana jamaicensis), a bird which was figured first by 

 Edwards in 1760, and later on by Audubon. It has been 

 recorded as breeding in the island to which it owes its name, 

 as well as in several districts east of the Mississippi and 

 South Connecticut ; but, owing in some degree to its skulking 

 habits, it has always been considered a numerically scarce 

 species. Some supplementary remarks by Mr, Witmer Stone 

 are to be found in the April number. Mr, A. H. Norton 

 describes the perfectly developed plumage — especially the 



