17G Recently pithlished OrnillioJuy'icuI JVarks. 



Birds of the whole county. On the one hand, we have here 

 much more than the stray notes on Ornithology which the 

 title might seem to imply, and much information from 

 various quarters has been incorporated in the text ; on the 

 other hand, the book reads somewhat like a work on British 

 Ornithology generally, with records for Kent in the fore- 

 ground. Many pages are devoted to accounts of the habits 

 of our commoner species which would certainly find no place 

 in a manual on the birds of the county proper ; and the 

 records themselves, while given, as is fairly stated, for what 

 they are worth, are not sifted for the reader, but are left to 

 his own discrimination and judgment. The Introduction 

 furnishes us with an account of the general physical features 

 of the Kentish country, which may be of value in the 

 future if the coal-fields are opened up successfully and spoil 

 the scenery ; and the occurrences of certain rare birds are 

 recorded, with coloured plates of eight of them by Smit, 

 namely, the White-spotted Bluethroat, the Dartford Warbler, 

 the Masked Shrike, the Crossbill (jr.), the Lesser Kestrel, 

 the Kentish Plover, the Avocet, and the Sandwich Tern. 

 Of especial interest are the accounts of the breeding of the 

 Golden Oriole, Chough, Stone-Curlew, Garganey, and several 

 other uncommon species, while we notice with pleasure the 

 constant recurrence of the names of our fellow-members 

 Dr. N. F. Ticehurst and Mr. M. J. Nicoll in connexion with 

 the records from the Dungeness district. 



2. Bertoyn on Birds from Paraguay. 



[Contribuciou para el conocimiento de las Aves del raraguay, por 

 A. de Winkelried Bertoni. An. Cieut. Paraguayos, No. 3. Asuncion, 

 1904.] 



This is a series of short notes on the birds of Paraguay, 

 which was only received in August last, tliough apparently 

 published in 1904. The most interesting species is, perhaps, 

 Gisella iJierinyi (Sharpe), which, however, seems to be nearly 

 the same as G. harrisi (Cass.). 



