450 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



vignettes of the Golden Eagle are, however, so spirited as to 

 make amends for any trifling licence with regard to locality. 



68. Lilford's 'Coloured Figures of British Birds' 



[Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands. Issued by Lord 

 Lilford, F.Z.S., &c., President of the British Ornithologists' Union. 

 Part XXXIII., November 1896 ; XXXIV., April 1897 ; XXXV., No- 

 vember 1897 ; XXXVI.] 



We have now the pleasure of recording the completion of 

 this valuable work by the issue, since we last mentioned it 

 (Ibis, 1896, p. 574), of the four final parts, which have been 

 carefully prepared for the press by Mr. Salvin. No more 

 fitting memorial could have been devised for our much- 

 lamented friend, the late President of the B.O.U., than tlie 

 accomplishment of this excellent piece of work, whereby the 

 name of Lilford will be kept long in the mind of future 

 generations of ornithologists. Lilford's ' Coloured Figures 

 of British Birds ' is, without doubt, the best series of illus- 

 trations of our feathered favourites that has yet been 

 prepared, and will in all probability long remain so. Its 

 popularity is sufficiently manifest from the simple fact that 

 two editions, of 550 and 400 copies respectively, have been 

 completely exhausted before the last numbers were issued. 

 Happy is the man who sees the seven volumes of Lilford's 

 ' British Birds ' on the shelves of his ornithological library. 

 Here is not only a treasure in itself for study and reference 

 on his own subject, but a work that will become still more 

 valuable in future generations. 



The following species are illustrated in Parts XXXIIL- 

 XXXV. :— 



Part XXXIII. Saxicola isabellina ; Motacilla horealis ; Pyrrhula major ; 

 Emberiza eioides ; Ca^mmulgus cegyptius ; Coccyzus 

 americanus ; Phoinicopterus rosens ; Mareca americana ; 

 Phasimius colchicus, P. torqtiatus ; Vanellus gregarius ; 

 Sterna fuliginosa. 



Part XXXIV. AUmda C7istata ; lynx torquilla ; Otis macqueeni ; Eudro- 



mias morinellus ; Phalaropus hyperboreus ; Tringa fusci- 

 collis ; Totanusjlavipes, T.fuscus ; Pelagodroma marina ; 



