378 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



plate) of Podica petersi, from the Umguza River near 

 Bulawayo_, a bird whose nesting-habits have not previously 

 been recorded ; notes on Birds collected or observed at the 

 Khami River in Matabeleland, and others on those obtained 

 by the writer in the north of the same country, including 

 the new species Poliospiza mennelli {cf. Bull. B. O. C. vol. xxi. 

 p. 62, 1908). 



In the " Occasional Notes '' will be found an interesting 

 letter from Mr. Bucknill, now resident in Cyprus, on the 

 Birds of that island, and a note on the colouring- matter of 

 the remiges of Turacus corythaix by Mr. Draper. 



Lastly, the Supplement consists of Pamphlet No. 1 of 

 the Bird Protection Committee, entitled " The South African 

 Birds-of-Prey, their Economic Relations to ]\Ian," a par- 

 ticularly interesting sketch of the subject being elaborated 

 at some length, with illustrations, by that well-known South 

 African ornithologist Mr. Alwin Haagner. 



46. Ussher on Irish Birds. 



[National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin. General Guide to the 

 Natural History Collections. A List of Irish Birds, shewing the Species 

 contained in the National Collection. By Richard J. Ussher. Dublin, 

 1908. 54 pp.] 



No more capable person could have been chosen to 

 compile this List than Mr. Ussher, the well-known joint- 

 author of the * Birds of Ireland,^ and a worthy successor 

 of A. G. More, who issued a similar catalogue in 1885, 

 followed by a second edition in 1890. The records have 

 been made as complete as possible, but we are informed 

 that the Little Bunting and Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler 

 have been added to the Irish List since this pamphlet was 

 published, and also that the Reed- Warbler has been taken on 

 the coast. 



Mr. Ussher is careful to include in square brackets all 

 the species which he considers either doubtful or, as in the 

 case of American land-birds, to have probably received 

 '' assisted passages," and we notice that he thus brackets 

 the recent record of the Canadian Craue. The reader is 



