452 Recently published Ornitholoijical Works. [Ibis, 



Three birds new to the British list are recorded in the 

 April number. These are : — Melcmocorypha calandra, the 

 Calandra Lark^ which appears in the Appendix o£ the 

 B. O. U. List among doubtful and unsatisfactory records ; 

 Acrocephalus arundinaceus orientalls, the eastern Great Reed- 

 Warbler ; and Charadrius (or ^jgialites) semipalmatus, the 

 Semi-palmated Ringed Plover of America. The first two 

 of these were obtained close to St. Leonard's-o)i-Sea and 

 are recorded by Mr. J. B. Nichols ; the third was shot at 

 Rye, also in Sussex, and is recorded by Mr. T. Parkin. 



The volume in review, which fully sustains the reputation 

 of its predecessors, contains many other valuable articles 

 and notes, including contributions from Mr. H. G. Alex- 

 ander on the birds observed by him at Dungeness, and from 

 Mr. G. B. Dunlop on instances of occasional polygamy 

 among Rooks. 



Cassinia. 



[Cassinia. Proceedings of tlie Delaware Vallej^ Ornithological Club 

 of Philadelphia, No. xx. for 1916, 1917.] 



The opening article of ' Cassinia ' deals with the history 

 of William P. Turnbull, a Scotsman, who was born in 1830 at 

 Fala in East Lothian and emigrated to America in 1850. 

 He settled at Philadelphia, and died there in 1871. But little 

 is known about him outside his Avork as an ornithologist. 

 He published two Avorks, one on the birds of East Lothian, 

 and another in 1869 on the birds of east Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey, both interesting and rather scarce works. 

 He was also an enthusiastic admirer of Alexander Wilson. 

 A portrait of Turnbull prefaces the article. 



Other contributions to this always scholarly annual are 

 of local interest. Mr. H. W. Fowler writes on some rare 

 birds recently observed on the Delaware in Upper Phila- 

 delphia, and Mr. T. D. Burleigh on bird-life about Samar 

 in the foot-hills of the Appalachians, where the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College had a forestry camp in the summer 

 of 1916. A nest of the Least Bittern, which is almost 

 invariably placed in dense reed-beds, was found near 

 Camden, New Jersey, by Mr. J. K. Potter to be built in a 



