514 Beccrithj published Ornithological Works. 



Avith cormncii(lal)lc care and accuracy, the jijeneral arranj^etnent 

 of Nauniaun having been pretty closely folloAvecl. The various 

 foreign names, a careful synonymy, and full descriptions of 

 the birds with their habitats, habits, food, and nidification, 

 their enemies, the mode of their capture, their use — and the 

 contrary if they are destructive — arc all fully given. Sub- 

 species are referred to, but fortunately not fully treated of, 

 for it appears that of the Crested Lark alone eighteen sul)- 

 species have already been described and named, though in the 

 present work only two, G. cristata and G. theckhe, are included 

 as valid. The plates are, on the whole, good; but, as five 

 artists have been employed, they are rather varied in execution, 

 those of Mr. Keulemans being by far the best, while those of 

 Pastor Kleinschmidt, though somewhat stiff, ai'c accurate and 

 fairly artistic. The third volume consists of 391 pages of 

 letterpress, 43 chromolithographic plates of birds and 5 of 

 eggs, and as the price is only sixteen shillings it is indeed 

 a marvel of cheapness and a work that we can safely 

 recommend to our readers. We only regret that it lias not 

 been issued in the handy octavo form of the original work, 

 for large folio volumes such as these are heavy and far less 

 convenient for reference-purposes. 



92. Oustalet and Claybrooke on the third Ornithological 

 Congress at Paris. 



[III^ Congres Ornithologique International, Paris. — 2G-;30 Juin, 11)00. 

 Conipte Rendu des Seances public par E. Oustalet et J. de Claybrooke. 

 8vo. Palis: Masson et 0'% 1901.] 



This volume, which is full of interest to all ornithologists, 

 contains a complete report of the business transacted at the 

 third meeting of the International Ornithological Congress 

 held at Paris in June 1900, and a list of the members present. 

 This is followed by a long series of papers on different 

 branches of our science, among the authors of which we 

 notice the names of Reiser (Birds of Balkan), Johansen 

 (Birds of Central Siberia), Bowdler Sharpe (Birds of Mon- 

 golia and Birds of North China), Berlepsch and Stolzmann 

 (New Species from Central Peru), Simon (new Trochilidtc), 



