180 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Avicultural Magazine, 



[Avicultural Magazine. Third series. Vol. v., Nov, 1913 to Oct. 

 1914.] 



The fifth volume of the ' Avicultural Magazine/ under the 

 energetic editorship of Mr. Hubert D. Astley, fully maintains 

 its acknowledged excellence both in the matter and in the 

 illustrations, which latter have always been a prominent 

 feature. Tn this respect the Society has a great advantage 

 in possessing an editor as facile with his brush as with his 

 blue pencil, as is shown by the two charming plates of 

 jEgithaliscus erythrocephalus and yEthnj)yga seherioe, which 

 adorn the first and third numbers of the present volume. 

 There are several other coloured plates by Mr. Goodchild 

 and a number of interesting photographs by Mr. H. Willford, 

 among which we would draw special attention to those of 

 the Oyster-catcher on pages 45 and 47, the Meadow-Pipit 

 on p. 310, and the Crowned Crane on p. 254. 



It is impossible in the space at our disposal to mention all 

 the articles of real merit contained in the volume, but we 

 would draw attention to some of the more interesting. 

 Mr. Collingwood Ingram contributes an account of his 

 father^s efl'orts to introduce and acclimatize the Greater 

 Eird of Paradise into the West Indian island of Little 

 Tobago, which he purcliased for this purpose. It is not at 

 present possible to state with certainty whether the birds 

 liave yet bred there, but there is every hope of their doing 

 so. Mr. F. E. Blaauw writes an account of how he obtained 

 a pair of the rare South American Parrot Hemignathus 

 leptorhynchus in southern Chile, and how with infinite 

 difficulty he transported them across the continent by the 

 Trans-Andean railway to Buenos Ayres, and thence to his 

 aviaries at Gooilust, where they have since bred. 



A difficult task was also that of Mr. H. K. Job, the State 

 Ornithologist of Connecticut, U.S.A. He made a journey 

 to the prairies of Manitoba in order to obtain a supply of 

 the young wild ducks of various species. In his article 

 (pp. 64, 99) he describes how he hatched out under hens, 

 and with an incubator, large numbers of eggs, taken when 



