Recently published Ornithological Works. 151 



In Dr. Festa's list are enumerated 120 species of birds^ all 

 of Avliich seem to have been registered in Tristram's ' Fauna 

 and Flora,' except Parus ccerulens, obtained in the woods of 

 the Wady Seir^ east of the Jordan. The single specimen 

 brought home Avas brighter in colouring than European 

 examples. 



Two new subspecific names are proposed for Palestine 

 forms — Petronia stulta puteicola and Alauda cristata deserti- 

 color. Dr. Festa doubts the occurrence of Cinnyris osea at 

 Beyrout, but he has omitted to notice Dr. Van Dyck's 

 evidence on this subject (Ibis^ 1892, p. 469). 



7. Goodchild on the Birds of Swaledale. 



[Some of the Birds obsen-ed in Upper Swaledale. By J. G. Good- 

 child, H.M. Geol. Surv., F.G.S., &c. The Naturalist, 1890, p. 248.] 



Mr. Goodchild registers the birds observed in Upper 

 Swaledale, Yorkshire. The Snow-Bunting {Plectrophenax 

 nivalis) is a " regular visitant on migration.'^ 



8. Gurney on Female Birds in Male Plumage. 



[On the Partial Assumption by Female Birds of Male Plumage. By 

 J. H. Gurney, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Zoologist, 1894, p. 15.] 



In 'The Ibis' for 1888, Mr. Gurney gave a list of 21 

 species of birds in whicb one or more instances of a female 

 assuming male plumage had been recorded. Mr. Gurney 

 now publishes an additional list of 9 species^ making 33 in 

 all, besides some uncertain cases. This phenomenon, as is 

 well known, is most frequent in the Gallinaceous birds and 

 Anatidse, but is likewise occasionally met with among the 

 Passeres (Redstart and Red- backed Shrike), also in some 

 Accipitres (for instance, the Kestrel) . 



9. Hartert on the Birds of the Natuna Islands. 



[List of the first CoUectiou of Birds from the Natuua Islands. By 

 Ernst Hartert. Novitates Zoologies, p. 4G9.] 



The Natuna Islands^ as Mr. Rothschild tells us in an 

 introduction to the present paper, extend from Tanjong Api, 



