724 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



have a photographic print of Gould's Ukeness as a frontis- 

 piece to the first volume and one of tlie author to the 

 second. 



The arrangement and nomenclature of the present work 

 are taken^ with few exceptions, from the British Museum 

 Catalogue, to which references are always given. We cannot, 

 however, altogether approve of the vernacular names adopted, 

 as it is not expedient to employ such well-known terms as 

 " Tit," " Bell-bird,'' and " Tree-creeper " for Australian birds 

 of quite different genera. References to previous authorities 

 on the nesting and eggs of every species are also regularly 

 added. The letterpress under each heading contains an 

 account of the " Nest" and the '' Eggs," besides " General 

 Observations,'^ which are full and well-written. 



The first volume of Mr. Campbell's book concerns the 

 Accipitres, Striges, and Passeres — comprising altogether 

 417 species; the second deals with all the remaining Orders, 

 comprising 348 species : so that the total number of 

 ^'Australian Birds," as here enumerated, is 765, 



The letterpress is profusely illustrated by excellent un- 

 coloured plates of the nests and eggs, prepared from 

 photographs taken by the author and his friends. At the 

 end of the second A'olume are twenty-seven coloured plates 

 of eggs, of which we can likewise speak very favourably. 

 In fact we may say that Mr. Campbell's work is of a high 

 order of merit, and reflects great credit alike upon the 

 author and the well-known firm who have produced it. 



122. Chapman on the Great Blue Heron of America. 



[A new race of the Great Blue Heron, with remarks on the status 

 and range of Ardea loardi. By Frank M. Chapman. Bull. Amer. Mus, 

 Nat. Hist. xiv. pp. 87-90, 1901.] 



The author proposes to separate the form of Ardea he- 

 rodias of the north-west coast-region of North America 

 " from Victoria northward " as a new subspecies, under the 

 title A. h.fannini. At the same time he points out that the 

 resident representative of this Heron in Florida, which has 

 been called Ardea wardi, is nothing more than a southern 



