r50 Recently jnihlifthed Ormthohrjical Works. 



13. Harris on Birds of the Canaries and Soiith Africa. 



[Essays and l*hotographs. Some Birds of the Canary Islmids and 

 South Africa. JBy Henry E. Harris. 8vo. London, 19U1. Pp. i-xiv, 

 1-212. Price 21s. net.] 



Mr. Harris, though he tells us that his inaiu objeiit was to 

 secure photographs, and that he did not originally contem- 

 plate Avriting a book in connexion with them, gives us a 

 very pleasant account of his adventures in the Canary Islands 

 and Cape Colony during the year 1899. His descriptions 

 of the natural beauties of the country and of the inhabitants 

 are very jnctnresque, while he aftbrds a considerable amount 

 of information about the birds at their breeding quarters, 

 and is decidedly successful in his attempt to portray them 

 by means of the camera. Of the plates, perhaps the most 

 interesting are those of "ploughing with camels/' of the eggs 

 of the Cream-coloured Courser and of the sitting bird, of 

 the nests of the Houhara Bustard, the Secretary-bird, the 

 Lark-heeled Cuckoo and the Hammerkop, of the Stanley 

 Cranes, the Gannets, and the Penguins ; though some 

 Passerine birds are also well represented. Six months were 

 spent in Fuerteventura and Teuerife, and an equal period in 

 South Africa; but, as to the islands, the time of year was too 

 early for a perfectly successful ornithological expedition. 

 In Fuerteventura the main places visited were La Oliva, La 

 Antigua, Tuineje, and Puerto Cabras; in Tenerife, Yilaflor, 

 Garachico, and Orotava (where the flower-carpet was on 

 view) ; and in Cape Colony, Houw Hoek, Stanford, Caledon, 

 Bot River Vley, Knysna, liird Island, Seal Island, and Saint 

 Croix — the last three in Algoa Bay. 



14. Hartert on his former Travels and Researches. 

 [Aus den Wanderjahren eines Naturfor.«cherR. Reisen und Forsch- 

 ungen in Afrika, Asien und Auierika. Von Ernst Hartert. Nov. 

 Zool. viii. pp. 221-355.] 



IVlr. Hartert proposes to give us an account of his former 

 travels and researches in various parts of the world in 

 'Novitates Zoological,' and begins here with the first eight 

 chapters of it. The first four contain an interesting narrative 

 of his journey through Nigeria to Kano and Socoto in 1885, 

 in which numv zoological allusions arc introduced. Some 



