1921.] liecenthj puhlislied Ornithological Works. 167 



Mr. Ogilvie's views ou the Wild Birds Protection Act 

 and the anomalies which he cites may be commended to 

 the Standing Committee recently chosen to advise the 

 Home Secretary on this controversial subject. 



x\ delightful description of Mr. Ogilvie^s first meeting 

 with procession ary caterpillars [Onethocampa pityocampa) 

 in southern France, though hardly within the scope of this 

 review, serves to show that he Avas a natur;dist whose 

 interests were not cramped within the narrow limits of a 

 collector's horizon. 



In his chapter on Wild Geese we would specially draw 

 attention to plates iv. and v., depicting the colours of the 

 soft ])arts of Arise?' cinereus and A. albifrons, from coloured 

 drawings done by the author immediate!}^ after death ; the 

 colouring there produced is admittedly different from plates 

 usually accepted as correctly portraying the soft parts 

 (not excepting Alplieraky's celebrated work). Mr. Ogilvie's 

 remarks on this subject are well worthy of careful study. 



That Ogilvie was a keen collector is perhaps to put it 

 too mildly, and in this connection his carefidly considered 

 remarks on pp. 12 and 13 on the shooting or collecting of 

 rare wanderers will provide food for reflection and some 

 for criticism; but it must be remembered that Ogilvie 

 made exceptionally good use of every rare bird he shot, 

 and judged from his own standpoint, his arguments are 

 perfectly sound. No finer working series of British 

 Birds has ever been made, as the reviewer can testify from 

 personal examination of the Ogilvie Collection in the 

 British Museum. 



In a book in which accuracy seems to be the keynote, 

 it seems a pity that the Latin names occasionally employed 

 should not, in a number of cases, have been brought up 

 to date : for instance, on p. 107, out of four of the scientific 

 names there mentioned, three are incorrect according to 

 modern nomenelatural methods. An editorial note to this 

 effedt would liave been a simple matter. Perhaps the editor 

 has long since gi^en up attempting to march with the 

 constant changes in nomenclature to which we are subjected. 



