548 Recently published Ornithological JVurks. [Ibis, 



reproduced by direct photography and coloured by hand. 

 The tliird aud fourth fascicules contaiu supplementary lists 

 of birds in the Museum collection, and photographs of 

 selected mounted specimens, also coloured by hand. The 

 whole work is a monument to the industry of our fellow- 

 member, and will be undoubtedly of great value to all 

 students of Chinese birds. 



Griscom and Nichols on the Seaside Sparrows. 



[A Revision of the Seaside Sparrows. By Ludlow Griscom and 

 J. T. Nichols. Abstr. Proc, Linn. Soc. New York, no. 32, 1920, 

 pp. 18-30.] 



The Seaside Sparrows are a rather unobtrusive little 

 group of Fringillidse included in the genus PasserJierbulus, 

 and confined, as their name implies, to the salt-marshes 

 along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. 



The authors had the advantage of examining nearly 

 700 specimens, and it took them two months to arrive 

 at their final conclusions. They recognize three species, 

 one of which, P. mirabilis, can be divided into seven local 

 races. Two of these are new^ and described here : P. m. 

 juncicola from north-west Florida, collected by the senior 

 author, which originally set him on the task of rearrange- 

 ment, and P. m. howelli from Alabama. 



Gurney on Norfolk Ornithologists. 



[Presidential Address to the Members of the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society at their 51st Annual Meeting, By J. H. Gurney, 

 Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. xi. 1919-20, pp. 1-22.] 



In his address to the Norfolk Naturalists' Society, 

 JMr. Gurney, who has occupied the Presidential Chair 

 for four years, chose as his subject the lives and labours 

 of several of the more eminent ornithologists of East 

 Anglja, among whom the best known were: Henry Ste- 

 venson, author of ' The Birds of Norfolk,' who died in 

 1888 ; Alfred Newton ; Thomas Southwell, who completed 

 Stevenson's work after his death ; Edward Clough Newton, 

 the falconer ; and, finally, Mr. Gurney's own father, John 



