564 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



L'Oiseau. 



[L'Oiseau. Revue d'Histoire iiaturelle appliques. Vol. i. for 1920. 

 12 nos.] 



This is a new journal Avliich has recently reached us. 

 It is published by the Societe nationale d'Acclimation 

 of France, and consists of two parts, the first dealing 

 ^■ith Mammalogy, Pisciculture, Entomology, Botany, and 

 Colonization ; the second with Ornithology. The President 

 of the Ornithological Committee is M. Jean Delacour, 

 well known to English aviculturists as a most successful 

 breeder of wild birds in captivity. The new journal is run 

 verv much on the same lines as our British ' Avicultural 

 Magazine,^ and many of the contributors to the first volume 

 now under review hail from this side of the Channel. 

 After an introduction on the beauty and usefulness of 

 birds and the deliglit which we find in studying their w^ays 

 and habits, by Mr. Edmond Perrier, who is the President of 

 the Society and the Director of the Museum of Natural 

 History, Mr. Seth Smith follows with an account of the 

 bird-houses in the London Zoological Gardens. There 

 are also articles by Mr. H. D. Astley and Wesley T. 

 Page. 



The principal French contributors are M. Delacour, who 

 has an interesting notice on his experiences with living 

 Humming-birds, and M. A. Decoux, who describes some 

 remarkable Weaver-bird hybrids, one of which (Zonogastris 

 melbax Estrilda phanicotis) is figured in colour. There 

 are two other coloured plates of the Gang-gang Cockatoo, 

 Callocephalon galeatum, by M. A. Millot. M. Delacour is 

 hoping to be able to breed this rare species in captivity. 

 He has a fine male which he hopes to mate with a hen 

 belonging to the Marquis of Tavistock. 



There are many other illustrations, reproduced from 

 photographs and drawings, to accompany articles by other 

 aviculturists. We wish every success to the new venture 

 of our brave allies. 



