Recently published Ornithological Works. 153 



go so far with Mr. Harting as to continue to keep the 

 Accipitres at the head of the Class of Birds, and to sink 

 the highly developed Swallows to the bottom of the Passeres, 

 in order to bring them next to the Swifts. These, however, 

 are but small blemishes in a useful work, well printed 

 and well illustrated, which should be in the library of every 

 " British bird-man." 



17. Hellmayr on the Genus Polioptila. 



[Zur Revision der Gattiing Poliuptila. Von C. E. Hellmayr. Nov. 

 Zool. viii. pp. 356-361.] 



The genus Polioptila is re-revised (cf. Nov. Zool. vii. 

 p. 555) and a new " subspecies ^' is described. 



18. ' Irish Naturalist' 



[The Irish Naturalist. A Monthly Journal of General Irish Natural 

 History. Edited by G. 11. Carpenter and II. Lloyd Praeger. Vol. x. 

 Nos. 1-12. Eason & Sons, Dublin.] 



This Journal makes a worthy commencement of the year 

 1901 with a notice by Mr. Ussher of Mr. R. M. Barriugton's 

 excellent volume on the ' Migration of Birds observed at 

 Irish Light Stations.^ A Tawny Owl recorded by Mr. 

 Robert Patterson from Co. Down, and believed to be the 

 first authenticated Irish example, was subsequently shown 

 by the same gentleman to be one of nine birds obtained 

 in the New Forest in June 1900 (during the close-time) and 

 liberated in Co. Down by a gentleman who took " some 

 interest in ornithology/' but did not think it necessary to 

 mention the introduction in print. This the Editors stigma- 

 tize as ** falsifying the geographical record/^ and they 

 proceed to express their opinion that, in some cases, " the 

 introducer is almost as great an enemy to science as the 

 exterminator.^' However, most of these Owls have already 

 perished, as they were proscribed because they disturbed 

 the neighbourhood by their hooting. Dr. Patters has a 

 somewhat lengthy article on the Grey Phalarope, while 

 among the various occurrences may be cited those of a Roller 

 m Donegal, an adult King-Eider in Co. Down, and a young 



