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natural inculjatiou liad proceeded to a large extent, and how 

 he sucessfully roared a number of young ducklings which 

 he was afterwards able to safely land in Connecticut. 



IVIr. Stuart Baker contributes two articles on the habits 

 of the Indian Pigmy Fahon {Microhierax melanoleucus) and 

 the Serpent Eagle (S/dlornis cheela), both of which he kept 

 in semicaptivity in Assam. 



There are many other articles dealing with various aspects 

 of aviculture and including some of great practical use to its 

 votaries, and we may conclude by noticing a most useful 

 glossary of the various English names applied to the many 

 species of Parrots, contributed by Dr. E. Hopkinson. 



List of other Ornithological Publications received. 



Murphy, R. C. Cruising in the South Atlantic. (Brooklyn Mas. 



Quarterly. Vol. i. No. 2, July 1914.) 

 Austral Avian Record. (Vol. ii. Nos. 5, 6. London, 1914.) 

 Avicultural Magazine. (3rd Series, Vol. \i. Nos. 1, 2. London, 1914.) 

 Bird Lore. (Vol. xvi. Nos. 5, 6. Harrisburg, 1914.) 

 Bird Note.s. (New Series, Vol. v. Nos. 9-12, Ashbourne, 1914.) 

 British Birds. (Vol. viii. Nos. 5-7. London, 1914.) 

 Bulletin de la Soci6t^ Zoologique de Geneve. (Tome ii. Fasc. 1-3, 



1914.) 

 Californian Fish and Game. (Vol. i. No. 1. San Francisco, 1914.) 

 Canada, Geo). Survey. Bept. of Mines. (Museum Bulletin No. 2, 



Ottawa, 1914.) 

 Condor. (Vol, xvi. No. 4. Hollywood, Cal. 1914.) 

 Emu. (Vol. xiv. pt. 2. Melbourne, 1914.) 

 Irish Naturalist. (Vol. xxiii. Nos. 10-12. Dublin, 1914.) 

 Scottish Naturalist. (Nos. 34-36. Edinburgh, 1914.) 

 South Australian Ornithologist. (Vol. i. pt. 4. Adelaide, 1914.) 



IX. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 

 The following letters have been received : — 



Sir,— In the notice (' Ibis/ July 1914, p. 516) of Dr. J. 

 C. Phillips's paper '^ Two new African Birds/' Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Washington, xxvi. 1913, pp. 167-8, it is mentioned that 

 "two supposed new forms are Ae^cY\he(\.— Capri in ulfjus 



