98 Recently published Ornithological WorJcs. [Ibis, 



with tlie object of showing that the sport of hawking iu this 

 country is not yet extinct, Sir Arcliibald Geikie remarks : 

 "There is still among our King's Couit Officials a Heredi- 

 tary Grand I'^alcouer, the office being hehl in the family of 

 the Duke of St. Albans," This would have been true a 

 quarter of a century ago, but it is not the case now. The 

 royal j)ension was commuted in 1890, when the office was 

 abolished, and the last holder of it died in May 1898. 

 The sport, however, is still carried on, without State aid, 

 by many enthusiastic falconers, — J. E. H. 



Grinnell on a new Ruffled Grouse. 



[A new Ridned fJrouse from the Yukon ^'alley. By Joseph 

 Grinnell. Condor, xviii. 1916, pp. 100, 107.] 



The Pi,ufHed Grouse of Yukon Territory and of Alaska is 

 found by Grinnell to diil'er from that of Alberta and other 

 parts of western North America in its larger and paler 

 coloration, and is here described as a new subspecies under 

 tin; name Bona.sa iiniheJIiis yiikdnnms. 



Gurnei/'s OrnitJivloyical Re port for Norfulk. 



[Ornithokgical Report for Norfolk (]9ir>). Ry J. H. <uirney, F.Z.S. 

 Zoologist, lOKJ, pp. -JOl-^OO, 260-266.] 



Mr. Gurney has less to chroni(de than usual in his annual 

 report on matters of ornithological interest in Norfolk for 

 1915. This is perhaps owing to so many of the observers 

 having gone to the front, and also perhaps to many military 

 restrictions of observation, especially along the coast. 



It is sad to read that the Spoonl)ilis did not return last 

 year to Breydon, nor did the Cormorants again nest in 

 L(n-d Hastings's lake. 



Mr. Gurney comments on the curious differences noticed 

 between the birds ol)served on migration in spring and 

 autumn. Thrushes, Blackbiids, Redwings, Starlings^ Chaf- 

 finches, and Linnets are seen in enormous flocks in autumn, 

 but never — at any rate, in such numbers — in spring. Perhaps 

 they return by some other route ; ] ossibly they pass over 

 Norfolk a,t night, and are not observed. 



