Recertify published Ornithological Works. 19.~> 



VII. — \otices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



1 . ' Annals of the Transvaal Must inn.'' 



[Annals of the Transvaal Museum. Vol. I. No. 4. August 1909 

 Pretoria.] 



The only ornithological papers in the fourth number of 

 this new periodical * are two by Air. Haagner — a " Revision " 

 of the difficult group of South African Grass-Warblers 

 (Cisticola) and a description of two new birds from 

 Portuguese East Africa. Of Cisticola Mr. llaagner recog- 

 nises 19 species, one of which (C. pretorice) is described as 

 new. The two birds from Portuguese East Africa are named 

 Anthoscopus robertsi and Heliolais hrbyi. 



2. < Aquila,' Vol. xv. 1908. 



[Aquila. Z^itschrift fiir Ornithologie. Redact. Otto Herman. Turn. xv. 

 Budapest, 1908.] 



Our Hungarian contemporary has now completed its 

 fifteenth volume, and we have received a copy of it, together 

 with senaiate copies of some of the papers. As was to be 

 expected, tne Organ of the "Central Bureau of Hungarian 

 Ornithology " is mostly devoted to the Birds of Hungary, 

 but should by no means be neglected by the student of the 

 European Ornis who is able to avail himself of the German 

 translation printed in parallel columns with the Magyar text. 



After a disquisition on the burning question how the 

 study of the " flight of Birds " may help the experiments 

 now being carried out on the " flight of Man/' there comes 

 a series of communications from numerous correspondents 

 on various subjects relating to the Hungarian Ornis, among 

 which migration holds an important part. Amongst these 

 we find a paper by our friend Mr. R. B. Lodge on his 

 experiences with the Eagles and Vultures of the Carpathians 

 during a short visit which he paid to that district in 

 September 1908. This article is illustrated by some ex- 

 cellent photographic plates of Golden Eagles and Griffon 

 Vultures. 



* Cf. 'The Ibis,' 1909. p. 695. 



