622 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



pecker, the Ruby-throated Humming-bird, and a group of 

 Warblers (pi. 94). The duller-coloured birds, such as the 

 Sparrows on plate 83, do not appear to us to be so satis- 

 factory. Whether this is due to the method of reproduction 

 or not it is difficult to say, but on this particular plate, at 

 any rate, the browns are far too rufous ; but, on the whole, 

 the plates are certainly one of the most attractive series of 

 bird-illustrations we have seen for a long time, and we must 

 congratulate the author and the artist on having produced a 

 remarkably handsome volume, which will doubtless serve its 

 purpose as the standard work on the birds of the "Empire 

 State ^' for many years to come. 



Festa on his Collectifig Expedition to South Italy. 



[Escursioni zoologiche nei monti della Vallata del Sangro (Abruzzi). 

 Dott. Enrico Festa. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat., Torino, xxx. no. 692, 1915, 

 pp. 1-12. 8 photos.] 



In the summer of last year Dr. Festa, who has for some 

 time been making zoological excursions in various countries 

 on behalf of the Turin Museum, proceeded to the rough 

 and high country of the Abruzzi in southern Italy, and 

 made collections of birds and other animals, as well as of 

 plants. In the present paper he gives an account of his 

 travels and of the birds he observed. It is illustrated with 

 some interesting photographs of scenery, 



Ghidini on the Waxwing in Italy. 



[La comparsa dei Beccofrosoni e di altri uccelli settentrionali nell' 

 inverno 1913-14 nella regione dei tre laghi. Angelo Ghidini. Boll, 

 soc. ticinese sci. nat. Lugano, vols, ix.-x. 1916, pp. 1-8.] 



In the winter of 1913-14, as is well known, the Waxwing 

 spread over the greater part of western and southern Europe 

 in unusual abundance. It very seldom comes as far south 

 as Italy, but in this paper Signor Ghidini gives a list of its 

 recorded occurrences in the Italian Lake-districts, as well as 

 some records of other northern birds which also but rarely 

 come so far south. 



