Recently published Ornithological Works, 727 



series of 400 birds from the Tenimber or Timor-Laut Islands, 

 which he visited in 1900-1, and we have here an account of 

 the collection, prefaced by some interesting general remarks. 

 Specimens of nearly all the birds peculiar to the group 

 were obtained. They are referred to 63 species and sub- 

 species, of which Dicrurus kuhni and Rallina tricolor victa 

 are characterized as new. 



129. Heathcote on the Birds of St. KiUla. 



[St. Kilda. By Norman Heathcote. 8vo. London, 1900. Pp. i-xiii 

 & 1-229. Price 10s. M., net.] 



Mr. Heathcote's book on St. Kilda, though written chiefly 

 to furnish a more trustworthy account of the character and 

 nature of the people, and of the charms of the rock-scenery — 

 not omitting the difficulty of access — contains a chapter of 

 more than fifty pages on its birds. The author describes 

 himself as being no ornithologist, but it seems to us that 

 he has every reason to consider himself such, so far as 

 his experiences go. It is true that he calls the Guillemot 

 Uria bruemiichi, more or less by accident, and is a little 

 " shaky " in a few technical details, but he gives a singularly 

 vivid account of the bird-life of this solitary island, which 

 will be found much more interesting in the case of so small 

 an area than a dry scientific treatise. There is an accurate 

 map, while the illustrations are for the most part good, 

 though the potato-like effect in that at p. 1G4 shows what a 

 camera can do when it chooses. 



130, Hellmayr on the Paridse, Sittidse, and Certhiidse. 



[Kritisclie Bemerluingen liber die Parida3, Sittidoe, und Certbiidee. 

 Von 0. E, Hellmayr. J. f, 0. 1901, pp. 169-190.] 



The author, who is preparing a synopsis of these three 

 families for the ' Tierreich,' gives us a series of useful notes 

 on the genera and species from his study of them during the 

 progress of his work. Under the Paridse he places four sub- 

 families — the Regulinse, Polioptilinae, Parinse, and Paradox- 

 ornithina3. " Peuthoryiis " is proposed as a new generic term 



