630 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Shufeldt on the Passenger Pigeon. 



[A unique photograph — The last Passenger Pigeon, By R. W. Shu- 

 feldt, M.D. The Blue-Bird Magazine, vol. vii. 1915, pp. 85-86.] 



[Anatomical and other notes on the Passenger Pigeon [Ectopistes 

 migrator ills), lately living in the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens. By 

 Dr. Pt. W. Shufeldt. Auk, xxxii. 1915, pp. 29-41, pis. iv.-vi.] 



As has already been noticed in our pages, the last known 

 living Passenger Pigeon died from old age on Sept. 7, 1914, 

 at the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens. It had been bred in 

 the Gardens, and was about 29 years old when it died. The 

 body was immediately dispatched to the National Museum 

 at Washington, and to Dr. Shufeldt was entrusted the task 

 of making an examination of its anatomy, after it had been 

 carefully skinned by Mr. Wm. Palmer. In the second of 

 the papers listed Dr. Shufeldt writes an account of the 

 results of the dissections which he made. These seem to 

 confirm what was previously known of the bird's anatomy, 

 an account of which had previously been written by William 

 Macgillivray, and published in Audubon's great work on 

 American birds. 



In the first paper quoted will be found a reproduction of 

 a photograph in colours of the same bird, taken by 

 Dr. Shufeldt after its death. The magazine in which it 

 appears is the organ of the Audubon Educational Board 

 for Ohio cooperating with the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies for the study and protection of North 

 American bird-life, 



Thorburn's British Birds. 



[British Birds, written and illustrated by A. Thorburn, F.Z.S., with 

 eighty plates in colour, showing over four hundred species. In four 

 volumes. Vol. i, pp. viii+143, 20 pis, London (Longmans), 1915. 

 4to, £6 6s, for 4 vols,] 



This is the first of four volumes in which Mr. Thorburn 

 proposes to give us a collection of pictures of our British 

 birds, and as the plates are admittedly the most important 

 part of the work we will deal with them first. 



