360 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



(Mr. Brook), Hyphantornis spilonotus (Mr. Holden), Or- 

 tygospiza polygona (Mr. Phillipps), Guiraca cyanea and Cher a 

 progne (Mr. Teschemaker), and Chrysotis bahamensis (Mr. 

 Bonliote) ; while Mr. Hopkinson gives an account of 

 Pyocephalus fuscicollis both in captivity and in the wild 

 state in West Africa. 



Finally, Major Jones describes the "eclipse plumage" of 

 the female of Casarca variegata of New Zealand, Mr. Astley 

 writes on a cross between the Australian Crimson and Star 

 Finches, and the Editor contributes further notes on Indian 

 Birds, and on two of the Jnatida. 



31. Dawson and Boivles on the Birds of Washington. 



[The Birds of Washington : a complete scientific and popular account of 

 the 372 Species of Birds found in the State. By William Leon Dawsou, 

 A.M., B.D., of Seattle, assisted by John Hooper Bowles of Tacoma. 

 Two Vols. 4to. Seattle: The Occidental Publishing Co., 1909.] 



Two handsome quarto volumes, which have lately reached 

 us, contain a well written and profusely illustrated account 

 of the birds of the State of Washington. This is one 

 of the Pacific States occupying a large area (more than 

 twice the size of Ireland) in the extreme North-western 

 corner of the Great Republic, and is of special interest to 

 Englishmen, as being closely adjacent to British Columbia, 

 which it borders on the south. In fact we suspect that the 

 Avifauna of the State of Washington and of that part of the 

 Dominion of Canada called " British Columbia " are nearly 

 identical, and as, so far as we know, there is no special work 

 on the birds of British Columbia, we ought to thank our 

 American friends very much for preparing this excellent 

 treatise on the birds of the adjoining and similar district. 



The two volumes, as we have already said, are " pro- 

 fusely illustrated." More than three hundred "original 

 half-tones" of birds and their nests, eggs, and favourite 

 haunts, chiefly derived from photographs taken by the authors 

 themselves or their friends, ornament these pages, besides 

 many other drawings in the text and a series of coloured 

 plates prepared by Mr. Allan Brooks. The last named are, 



