1917-] Recently published Ch'nithob<jicul Works. 263 



•distinct species, CoccothrausUs japonicns from Japaii aud 

 C. humil from Turkestan and India. The new form is 

 C. c. tatjancB. 



Field-notes with two pliotographs of nests of Aa'ocephalus 

 jmlustris are contributed by JMr. Shtoehr, and Mr. V. E. 

 Ushakow sends an account of the nest and eggs of Numenius 

 ienuirostris with a figure, and Mr. Poliakov has a photograph 

 of the nest of the Black-throated Diver on a lake in the 

 neighbourhood of Moscow. 



An article on the migration of the White Stork in spring 

 is given by Mr. A. A. Browner and one on ringing nestling 

 birds in south Finland by Mr. H. Grote, while an interesting 

 note is sent by Mr. H. Johansen of the capture in Norway 

 in October of a young Redwing ringed in the nest in the 

 previous May near Tomsk in Siberia. 



Revue Frangaise cV Orrdthologie. 



[Revue FranQaise d'Ornitbologie, scieiitifiqiie et pratique. 8<^ Annee, 

 Nos. 81-92. Paris, lOlti.] 



Last year's volume of the French Ornithological Journal 

 continues to uphold the position it has made for itself, and 

 contains a number of articles appealing to the amateur as 

 well as to the professional bird-lover. 



M. Brasil concludes his notes on the birds of New 

 Caledonia and Lifou in which he gives some interesting 

 taxonomic and other information, and M. J. Lorauchet 

 continues his account of the birds of Kerguelen, which are 

 illustrated with some of his own photographs. He spent 

 some eight months on the island and had ample ojiportunities 

 of making observations on the birds he writes about. 



Another article on an exotic fauna is that of Drs. Bonet 

 and Millet-Horsin on the birds of the Ivory coast or 

 Dahomey ; observations were made both in the savanna 

 regions of the interior and also in the forested country 

 along the coast, and a list of 144 species is recorded. 



Among the more important contributions on the French 

 avifauna are those of M. J. L'Hermitte on the birds of 



