144 Recently published Ornitholoyicul JVorks. 



27. Selous on Sport and Travel. 



[Sport and Travel, East and West. By Frederick Courtney Seloua. 

 Illustrated. lvol.,8vo. 312pp. Longmans: London, 1900. Price 12s. 6c?.] 



Mr. Seloiis's narrative of 'Sport and Travel' is mainly- 

 concerned with the larger creatures of the Mammalian Class, 

 which were the particular objects oP his excursions in Asia 

 Minor and North America. But there are many chance 

 allusions to birds in its pages, and one of the chapters of 

 his adventures in Asia Minor specially refers to ornithology ; 

 while, as we all know, the author is a devoted birds'-nester, 

 and never misses a proper opportunity of taking a " good 

 clutch '' of eggs with his own hands. The excellent full- 

 page illustration (p. 134) of " Mustapha robbing an Eaglets 

 Nest/' and the amusing description of the incident, will at 

 once evoke the sympathies of all true members of the B.O.U. 

 The announceraent that a large flock of Great Bustards 

 is habitually to be met with close to a railwaj'-station is 

 sufficient to induce some of our more ardent frieuds to 

 rush off to Smyrna at once. Moreover, Vultures, Lammer- 

 geiers, and other attractive Raptores are found breeding 

 in this district, besides the numerous Passeres, of which 

 Mr. Selous has already written in this Journal*. To see 

 "quite one hundred" Rough-legged Buzzards flying about 

 the mountain-side together is another attraction to Asia 

 Minor. 



28. Sharpens 'Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds/ 



Vol. ii. 



[A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds. (Noiuenclator Avium 

 turn Fossilium turn Viventium.) By II. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S. 

 Vol. II. London. 8vo. Pp. xv, .312. Printed by order of the Trustees 

 of the British Museum. 1900. Price 10s.] 



The scope and object of the new ' Hand-list ' of the 

 Genera and Species of birds living and extinct have been 

 mentioned in our notice of the first volume of this important 

 work ('Ibis,' 1900, p. 213). The second continues the list 

 of Carinatte, and embraces what we should call the Psittaci 

 * See 'Ibis.' 1900, p. 40o. 



