192 1.] Recently published Ornithological Works. 159 



Hhigstori's Himalayan observations. 



[A Naturalist in Himalaya. j5j R \V. G. Hingston, M.C., M.B., 

 I.M.S. Pp. xii+300; 24 illustr. ; 1 map. London (Witlierby), 1920. 



8vo.] 



Captain Kingston is a close observer of nature, and has 

 had the good fortune to be stationed in an interesting and 

 little-knowu vallej' of the Himalayan range. This valley, 

 the British territory of Hazara, runs in the form of a wedge 

 between the native state of Kashmir and the territory of 

 the independent Afghan tribes of the Black Mountain. 



Our previous knowledge of the birds of this area is due to 

 the late Major C. H. T. Whitehead, who spent a short time 

 at Kagan, in the upper part of the district, and contributed 

 a few notes on liis visit to ' The Ibis ' and 'Journal of the 

 liombay Natural History Society.' 



Through Hazara apparently a big stream of migration 

 passes in spring and autumn, ami it is to Ije regretted, 

 from the point of view of readers of this Journal, that 

 Captain Hingston did not pay as much attention to birds 

 as he did to ants and spiders. True, he gives us a good 

 picture of the local migration from the plains of the Punjab 

 to the lower valleys and hills of Hazara, but this is only a 

 general sketch with practically no details. 



Like iiiany of us, Captain Hingston has been fascinated 

 by the soaring of birds, and has made a special study of it. 

 His remarks on the soaring of the Common Kite, or was 

 it not rather Milvus melanotis, which take up nearly the 

 whole oC the single chapter on " Ornithological Observa- 

 tions," will be read with interest. The book is illustrated 

 with a number of good photographs, including one of a male 

 Paradise i^'lycatcher in fully-adult plumage. 



Howard on Bird Territories. 



[Territory in Bird-Life. By IL Eliot Howard. Witli illustrations 

 by G. E. Lodge and H. GriJnvold. Pp. xiv-|-.j08 ; 11 illustr. ; 2 plans. 

 London (Murray), 1920. 8vo. Price 21s.] 



Most of our readei's will remember Mr, Howard's beautiful 



