150 Recently published Ornithological VP'orhs. 



33. Vorderman and Finsch on the Birds of Java. 



[Systematisch Overziclit der Vogels welke op Java iaheemsch zijn door 

 A. G. Vorderman, van Aanteekeningeu voorzien door Dr. 0. Finscli. 

 Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned.-Indie, Deel Ix. Afl. 1, 1900.] 



This is a new and complete List of the Birds o£ Java, 

 prepared by Heer A. G. Vorderman, a well-known authority 

 on the subject, and revised by Dr. Finsch, of the Leyden 

 Museum. After a short historical sketch of our knowledge 

 of Javan ornithology, commeucing with Baron Frederic von 

 Wurmb in 1774, and a list of Heer Vorderman's numerous 

 papers, there follows a catalogue of the 410 Javan birds now 

 known to us, of which 75 are designated as restricted to the 

 island. References are added to the British Museum Cata- 

 logue and a few other authorities. A Penguin [Catarrhactes 

 chrt/socome) is placed in the list on the authority of a 

 specimen in the Dresden Museum. We should venture to 

 question the authenticity of this locality. 



34. Westell's ' Year with Nature.' 



[A Year with Nature. By W. P. Westell. London : Draue, 19J0. 

 Pp. xvi, 276. Price lOs. 6cl] 



This book consists of a series of essays on ' Nature/ under 

 the headings of tlie different mouths, in the pages of which 

 birds have allotted to them a considerable share. ]Most of these 

 essays were originally published in magazines or newspapers. 

 However suitable they may have been, both in letterpress 

 and illustrations, to periodical literature, it is a little difficult 

 to understand what object is served by their reproduction 

 in the present form, especially as the author particularly 

 disclaims in his preface any attempt at the cultivation of 

 literary style or artistic merit. 



35. Winge on the Birds of the Danish Lighthouses, 1899. 



[Fiig-lene ved de Dauske Fyr 1 1899. 17de Aarsberetning oni Danske 

 Fugle. Ved Herluf Winge. Vid. Meddel. fra d. natuvh. Foren. i Kbhvn. 

 1900, p. 159.] 



The 17th yearly report on the birds observed at the 



