284 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the species of " Raptores '' ascribed to the Italian Kingdom, 

 commencing with the Vultures and winding up Avith the 

 Owls. If the latter were to be included, we are rather sur- 

 prised to see them placed so far apart from the Harriers, 

 which follow the Vultures. Woodcuts of considerable merit 

 are given in all cases where representations of the heads, 

 talons, or wings are likely to be useful to the reader, and the 

 differences between the scheme of the primaries in the Hen-, 

 Pallid, and Montagu's Harriers are well rendered. In ad- 

 dition to the woodcuts there are full-page coloured plates of 

 Aquila heliaca, A. nipalensis, A. pomarina, Falco barbarus 

 (juv. et ad.), F. feldeggi (juv. et ad.). The letterpress is ex- 

 cellent and not too long. 



48. Mathew's ' Birds of Pembrokeshire.' 



[The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its Islands. By the Rev. Murray A. 

 Mathew, M.A., F.L.S. 8vo. London, 1894. Pp. i-lii & 131. R. H. 

 Porter.] 



In his introduction to this interesting volume Mr. Mathew 

 apologizes — rather unnecessarily, we think — for the poverty 

 of Pembrokeshire in bird-life as compared with some other 

 counties. Of course the western position of the county is 

 adverse to the existence of several of the Warblers which 

 annually visit the greater part of England, though we have 

 little doubt that closer examination in the more wooded 

 northern portions of the county would add one or two species 

 to the list. Even as it is, Pembroke, according to Mr. Mathew, 

 adds a new Warbler to the British list in Hypolais poly- 

 glotta, which the author watched daily in the summer of 1886, 

 though he could not bring himself to shoot the little songster 

 for identification. This, the western representative of the 

 more eastern H. icterina, breeds in Spain and in Western 

 France about as far as the Somme, so that, if any member 

 of the genus crossed the channel and visited Pembrokeshire, 

 it would be this one ; we have even strong grounds for be- 

 lieving that this species has nested for at least two successive 

 years near Lancing, in Sussex ; but at present we must 

 say " not proven " in both cases. 



