362 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Lack of space forbids us to give details of all the papers, 

 but Dr. Butler should be mentioned as contributing two in 

 January and February^ and Capt. Perreau contributes " Some 

 Notes on Indian Ornithology " to the same numbers ; while 

 Mr. B. R. Horsbrugh gives in September an account of the 

 breeding of Turnix lepurana as observed by him in South 

 Africa. 



29. Brugger on Birds' Bones from the Norwegian Kitchen- 

 middens. 



[Vistefundet en jeldre stenalders kjokkenniodding fra Jscderen. Av 

 A. W. Brogger. Stavanger, 1908. 102 pp., 5 pis.] 



At Viste, in the parish of Rendeberg, on the south- 

 eastern coast of Norway, not far from Stavanger, the 

 remains of an ancient dwelling-house of the older neolithic 

 stone-age were discovered in the autumn of 1907. This was 

 accompanied by a large kitchen-midden, containing masses 

 of shells of the sea-mollusks which had been consumed for 

 food. But with these were also exhumed, after a careful 

 search^ remains of numerous other animals — Mammals, 

 Birds, and Fishes. The bird-bones have been examined, by 

 our Foreign Member, Dr. Winge, who has kindly supplied us 

 with a copy of this interesting memoir. They are referred 

 to 27 species, nearly all well-known inhabitants of the 

 adjacent sea-coast. But amongst them are also numerous 

 fragments of the bones of the Great Auk {Alca impennis), 

 which prove that this bird was used there in past ages as a 

 regular article of food. 



The memoir is well illustrated by five lithographic plates 

 and numerous text-figures. ' 



30. Carter on a supposed new Grass- Wren. 



[Description of a supposed new Grass- Wren. By T. Carter, M.B.O.U. 

 Vict. Nat. XXV. p. 86.] 



Mr, Carter describes Amytis varia as a new species, 

 comparable with A. gigantura Milligan, Vict. Nat. xviii. p. 27, 

 but probably differeut. It is, we suppose, from West 

 Australia, but the exact locality is not stated. 



