636 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



o£ tlie Crocodile River. This Duck's most southerly 

 breeding-ground was previously believed to be Lake Ngami. 

 Other articles are by Mr. B. C. II. Langford on a curious 

 plumage-variation in a Lanner (Falco hiarmicus^, and on the 

 breeding of the Kurrichaiue Button-Quail {Turnix lepurana) 

 by Mr. Mors. Finally, we must congratulate Mr. Haaguer 

 on his promotion to the post of Director of the Zoological 

 Gardens in Pretoria. 



Yearbook of the Dutch Bird-Club. 



[Club van Nederlandsclie Vogelkuudigen. Jaiirbericht, no. 4. 

 Deventer, 1914.] 



Under its energetic President, Baron Snouckaert van 

 Schauburg, the Dutch bird-club occupies itself chiefly with 

 matters of local importance in Holland. The President 

 himself gives us his usual report on the occurrence of rare 

 birds in the Netherlands betw^een Oct. 1913 and Sept. 1914. 

 It does not seem yet certain whether the British Song- 

 Thrush occurs in Holland or not. In another short note 

 lie discusses the identification of the Little Owl of Palestine, 

 and comes to the conclusion that two examples in his collec- 

 tion obtained near Jerusalem should be referred to Athene 

 nodua glaux, the Egyptian subspecies, rather than to 

 Hartert's A. n. lilith, which is said by the last-named author 

 to inhabit Syria, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. Another 

 article l)y Baron Snouckart deals with a pleasant five weeks 

 ramble through Italy with notes on the birds observed. 



The only other contribution of any length is one by M. A. 

 Cr^vecoeur on the avifauna of the Hague and its neighbour- 

 hood, accompanied by a map and topographical information. 

 The number of species recorded is 146. 



List of other Ornithological Publications received. 



BuTERLiN, S. A. Birds of the Ussuri-land. And other papers from 



Russian periodicals. 

 MouLTON, J. C. Thirteenth Report on the Sarawak Museum, 1914. 



(Sarawak, 191.").) 



