0.20 Rccentlij pubUshed Ornitholugical Works. 



addiiions. The specimens are referred to 55 species, among 

 wliich two are described as new [Pisorhina sulaensls and 

 Rhinomyias colonus), besides two subspecies [Pelargopsis 

 melanorhyncha eutreptorhyncha and Hypothymis puella blasn). 

 Ptilinopus chrysurrhous pelingensis , fron Peling and Mangai 

 Islands^ is also separated as a new subspecies. Eudynamis 

 faciilis Wallace, not recognized in the B. M. Catalogue 

 (vol. xix.), is revived. Mr, Doherty obtained three examples 

 of the rare Sturnine bird Churitornis albertinx, in Sula- 

 Mansfoli. 



10.2. Hurting on Hawks. 



[Hints on the Management of Hawks. Second Edition ; to which is 

 added Practical Falconry, Chapters Historical and Descriptive. Ry J. E. 

 Harting. Pp. i-viii, 1-268. 8vo. London : Horace Cox, 1898.] 



So many additions have been made to the original letter- 

 press of this well-known little work, that the so-called second 

 edition is practically new. The management of Hawks and 

 the practice of falconry lie beyond the province of orni- 

 thologists in the strictest sense, but, even from a limited point 

 of view, there is much in this work that appeals to the lover 

 of bird-life. The remarks on the moulting of Falcons are 

 excellent ; the chapters on the Goshawk, the Sparrow- 

 hawk, and the Merlin contain information of great interest, 

 and there is much bird-lore in connexion with what may be 

 called excentricities in hawking. Many of us are aware of 

 the taste of James I. for flying Jer- Falcons at the Kite, and 

 even about this Mr. Harting has something new to say ; but 

 few persons know that Ospreys were also kept by that 

 monarch. A chapter is devoted to trained Eagles, and 

 Mr. Harting gives his not very successful experiences in 

 France on Bonelli's Eagle. Many beautiful illustrations by 

 Mr. G. E. Lodge add to the value of the volume, and there 

 is also a photogravure of the picture by Mr. Joseph Wolf 

 of a Greenland and an Iceland Falcon attacking a Kite, 

 which we recollect in the International Exhibition of 1862. 



