Recently published Ornithological Works. 269 



33. 'Aquila,' 1904. 



Aquila : Zeitschrift fur Ornithologie. Redact. Otto Herman. Tom. xi. 

 Budapest, 1904.] 



' A (| ui hi/ the official Hungarian periodical for Ornithology , 

 edited by Otto Herman, has been issued for 190 1, in one 

 volume of 400 pages. It contains a mass of statistics 

 on the arrival of the Swallow (Hirjindo rustled) in Hungary 

 (to which we invite the attention of the members of the 

 newly appointed Committee on Migration of the B. (). C.) 

 and much discussion on the good and bad habits of the 

 Hook [Corvus frii(/ilc(ji!s), besides minor contributions. An 

 example of Bonelli's Eagle (Nisaetus fasciatus) is recorded 

 as having been obtained in the district of Mosorin in April 

 lOO.'i. The species is stated to be new to the Hungarian 

 Ornis. 



34. ' Avicullural Magazine.' 



[Avicultural Magazine. The Journal of the Avicultural Society. New 

 s. Vol. iii. Nos. 1-3. London : Nov. 1904 to Jan. 1905.] 



In these three parts of the 'Avicultural Magazine ' a 

 large number of the papers relate, as usual, to the successful 

 breeding of various birds in captivity, the most striking- 

 being those of Mr. W. H. St. Quintin, Mrs. Johnstone, and 

 Air. W. P. Pycraft. In the first of these, concerned with 

 the breeding of Pterocles exustus, the author calls attention 

 to the habit of the male Sand-Grouse, which soaks its breast 

 in water to give drink to the young, a fact ascertained by 

 Air. Meade-Waldo in the case of P. alchata. In the second 

 article the lady-writer describes the nesting of Eraser's 

 Touraco [Turacus macrorhynchus) in her aviaries, and so 

 leads up to the third, wherein Air. Pycraft gives full details 

 of the newly-hatched young of the Touraco, the downy stage 

 of which has already been noted by Sir Hariy Johnston 

 in the case of Turacus livingstoni and Gallirex chlorochlamys. 

 The nestling remains downy for at least a month after 

 it is hatched, though the quill-feathers are greatly developed 

 at an early stage, the outer secondaries and innermost 

 primaries being the longest. The major coverts, moreover, 



