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the activity of the Hungarian ornitliologists, or to have re- 

 stricted the publication of the results of their investigations. 

 Otto Herman, the original editor and foinider of the 

 organization, died on 27 December, 1914, and was suc- 

 ceeded by Titus Csorgey for the 1915 volume; since then 

 the responsible editor appears to be Stefan Chernel von 

 Chernelhaza. The volumes are bilingual, in Magyar and 

 German. 



Here we can do little more than indicate the principal 

 contents. The 1914 volume has a sympathetic memoir on 

 Dr. Herman, Avith a portrait and a bibliography of his 

 published work. Tliere are papers on the osteology of the 

 Occllated Turkey [Agriochoris ocellatd) by Dr. Shufeldt of 

 Washington, on the morphology of the avian metacarpus 

 and on some Pleistocene bird-bones by Dr. Lambrecht, 

 Messrs. J. Schenk and K. Hegyfoky report on migration in 

 Hungary during the previous year ; while Dr. J. Greschik 

 writes on anatomy and histology, and Messrs. E. Csiki 

 and G. Bittera on the food and economic status of various 

 Hungarian birds. 



Tlie other volumes contain papers on the same or similar 

 topics, all more or less closely concerned with Hungarian 

 ornithology. 



The last volume of the series contains an account of the 

 historical development of the study of Hungarian Orni- 

 thology by Mr. J. Schenk, and two appendices. The first 

 of these, b}' the Editor, is a Nomenclator Avium Regni 

 Hungariae, a checklist drawn up on the lines of the B.O. U. 

 List, but without any distribution, followed by notes on the 

 nomenclature in disputed or doubtful cases. Dr. Chernel 

 does not follow the International rules altogether. He will 

 not use the same generic and specific names, and calls the 

 White-eyed Pochard Nyroca ferrnginea instead of Nijroca 

 nyroca. He also sticks to Anas buschas for the Mallard and 

 Turdus musicus for the Song-Thrush, and gives his reasons 

 for so doing. The second supplement to the 1918 volume 

 contains an elaborate memoir on the former and present 

 breeding places of the two White Egrets, He.rodias alba 



