158 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



3. Zur Oruis Nord-Ost-Bohniens. O}). cit. v. js. 41. 



4. Beitriige zur Ornitliologie Bohiuens. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 

 xvii. p. 177.] 



Herr J. Prok. Prazak, wlio is an old disciple of Fritzsch of 

 Prague, now on the staff of the Imp. N. H. Museum, Vienna, 

 reprints from ' Die Schwalbe ' a new list of the birds ascer- 

 tained to have occurred in Bohemia up to Oct. 1st last year. 

 They are 358 in number. The German names are added 

 and a few critical footnotes. The resident species are indi- 

 cated by an asterisk. 



Herr Prazak has also contributed to the Orn. Jahrb. and 

 other periodicals several articles on the birds of !N .E. Bohemia, 

 of which he kindly sends us copies. They will furnish much 

 useful information to students of the European Ornis. 



24. Radde on the Public Museum of Tiflis. 



[Bericlit iiber das KaukasiscLe Museum und die offentliche Bibliothek 

 in Tiflis fiir das Jahr 1893. 8vo. Tiflis, 1894.] 



In this report our excellent correspondent Dr. Radde 

 gives an account of the progress made at the Tiflis Museum 

 under his charge in 1893. Prefaced to this is a short 

 narrative of his summer excursion of 1893, which was 

 devoted to the scientific examination of the eastern coast- 

 lands of the Black Sea and the neighbouring ranges from 

 Batum to Anapa. Of this journey, undertaken in company 

 with Herr E. Koenig, a full account has been recently pub- 

 lished in the Erganzungsheft (no. 112) of Petermann's 

 ' Mittheilungen ' (1894). 



25. Rey on the European Cuckoo. 



[Altes und Neues aus dem Haushalte des Kuckucks, von Dr. Eugene 

 Rey. Marshall's Zool. Vortriige. Heft xi. 8vo. Leipzig, 1892.] 



Dr. Rey's elaborate essay on the economy and habits of 

 the Cuckoo is well worthy of careful study. The author, 

 amongst other particulars, gives a table of 531 Cuckoos^ 

 eggs, the results of an examination of which are very curious. 

 With us in England the Hedge-Sparrow, the Meadow-Pipit, 

 and the Pied Wagtail are the commonest foster-parents of 



