192 1.] Recently published Ornithological Works. 565 



Ooloffists' Record. 



[The Oologists' Record : a Quarterly Mag'azine devoted to the ad- 

 vancement of Oology in all parts of tlie World. Vol. i. No. 1, March 

 1921. Published by Harrison & Sons, London.] 



We have been favoured with a copy of a new magazine 

 devoted to Oology. It is edited by Mr. Kenneth L. Skinner, 

 and contains several pleasant articles on birds and bird- 

 nesting. The first, by C. F. B., contains a list of species 

 found breeding in the neighbourhood of Mombasa, some of 

 those met with being by no means common, but we should 

 like to know that they were all identified by collecting the 

 skins. The second article, by Mr. J, Bishop, is on birds met 

 with along the western front in France; the most inter- 

 esting note is on the Little Bustard, whose breeding place 

 was probably located though the eggs were not found. 

 Captain Pitman has a third article on bird-nesting in 

 Palestine, but he only deals in the present number with 

 the Rufous Warbler and the Whitethroat, which are treated 

 at considerable length. 



A picture of the Kite by Frohawk adorns the cover, 

 perhaps not the best frontispiece that could be chosen for 

 an Oological Magazine. 



South African Journal of Natural History. 



[The South African Journal of Natural History. Vol. ii. for 1920.] 



With this publication the former Journal of the South 

 African Ornithologists' Union is now incorporated, and we 

 have recently received the two numbeis for 1920, making 

 up the second volume. Among the papers on birds is one 

 by the late Lieut. C. G. Finch-Davies on tiie avifauna of 

 the South- West African Protectorate, which adds to our 

 knowledge of the distribution of South African birds. 

 Verreaux^s Eagle (^Aquila verreauxi) is recorded from the 

 Protectorate for the first time. It was found nesting on a 

 krantz near Windhuk. Mr. Finch-Davies has also identified 

 Lanius luebbertl Reichw. as an immature L. minor. 



