192 1.] Recently published Ornli/ioio(/icul Works. 319 



Regt., serving under Lord Napier ; on the 1st of August^ 

 1862j lie transferred to the G2ud Foot Regt., being made 

 Lieutenant on the 24th of November, 1863, and promoted 

 to Captain on the 7th of February, 1876. He left the 

 service m 1881, after serving over fifteen years in India, and 

 lived on retirement at East Wickham House, Welling, Kent, 

 moving to Wimbkdon Park in 1916. 



For many years he came to the Bird Room at the Natural 

 History Museum and made most careful and excellent 

 drawings and sketches of birds with their natural sur- 

 roundings. 



He Avorked through every species of the Game Birds and 

 the Ducks, and at the time of his death was engaged on the 

 Corvidse. We hear that his drawings iiave all been left to 

 the Zoological Society. Major Jones was elected a member 

 of the Union in 1900. 



XIX. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



Bartsch on the Birds of the Tortugas. 



[The Bird-rookeries of the Tortugas. By Paul Bartsch. Smithsonian 

 Keport for 1917, pp. 409-500. 38 pis. Published 1919.] 



The Tortugas are the last of the long line of coral reefs 

 and islands which string ont in a westerly direction from 

 the southern extremity of Florida into the Gulf of Mexico, 

 and have long been renowned for the numbers of sea-birds 

 visiting and breeding on them. The first ornithologist who 

 visited them was J. J. Audubon in 1832. He has given us 

 a most vivid account of his observations and experiences in 

 his Ornithological Biography, portions of which are re- 

 printed in the present paper. On one of the islands, 

 Loggerhead Key, is the Marine Biological Laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution, at which most of the recent work 

 on birds, especially that of Messrs. Watson and Lashley 

 (vide Ibis, 1916, p. 191), has been conducted. The most 

 interesting island of the group is Bird Key, where, out of 



