Recently published Ornithological Works. 161 



35. Southwell on the Breeding of the Crane in East Anglia. 



[On the Breeding of tlie Crane in East Anglia. By Thomas Southwell, 

 F.Z.S. Trans. Norf. & Norw. Nat. Soc. vii. pp. 160-170.] 



In this article Mr. Southwell has put togetlier many 

 interesting notices respecting the habitual use of the Crane 

 for food in England in former days. On one celebrated 

 occasion in the reign of Eilward IV. as many as 204 o£ these 

 unfortunate fowls were included in the bill of fare. As 

 regards the regular breeding of the Crane in the Eastern 

 Counties, though this was prol)ably the case, the evidence is 

 but scanty. It a|)pears certain, however, that on the 4th 

 June, 1543, a "yong pyper Crane," which could hardly have 

 been bred elsewhere, was obtained at Hickling, in Norfolk- 

 and Dr. William Turner, in his ' Avium Historia ' (1544), is 

 most precise in his statement that in his days Cranes nested 

 in the English marshes and that he had often seen their 

 " pipiones." 



36. Stark's ' Birds of South Africa.' 



[The Fauna of South Africa. Birds : Vol. II. By A. C. Stark, M.B. 

 Completed by W. L. Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S. London, 1901. R. H. Porter. 

 Pp. xiv&323. (C/". Ibis, 1900, p. 894.) Price 21«. net.] 



The present volume of the ' Birds of South Africa ' has 

 been completed by IVIr. W. L. Sclater, the Editor of the 

 Series, owing to the sad death of Dr. Stark during the siege 

 of Ladysmith. Tlie manuscript had been finished by the 

 author, but required a considerable amount of revision and 

 addition to bring it up to date ; so that JVIr. Sclater found 

 it no slight task to prepare the sheets for the press, though 

 as to the successful nature of his efforts there can be no two 

 opinions, Mr. A. D. Millar of Durban, Dr. A. Reichenow 

 of Berlin, Capt. Shelley, and Dr. Sclater are specially 

 mentioned in the Preface as having given considerable 

 assistance. 



The families treated in this instalment are the Laniidae, 

 Crateropodidae, Sylviidse, Turdidae, Muscicapidae, Dicruridae, 

 Campophagidae, Hirundinidse, and Pittidae, while the plan and 

 arrangement of the whole work have been already noticed in 



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