Recently published Ornithological Works. 179 



which illustrate every species, besides photographic prints 

 of nests and egrss. The figures of the birds are much 

 reduced in size, so that four or five, or even six, are placed 

 in each plate. They are accurately drawn and sufficiently 

 coloured to enable the species to be recognised at a glance, 

 although in some cases they might perhaps have been a little 

 brighter. Altogether our Foreign Member has produced a 

 charming volume, which, although of course primarily 

 adapted for his American friends, will be much admired by 

 his ornithological associates in England and elsewhere. 



6. ' The Condor.' 



[The Condor, a Magazine of Western Ornitholog-y. Edited by Joseph 

 Grinnell. Vol. ix. no3. 1-5, 1907.] 



' The Condor ' is still " wide-awake," and we find much 

 that is of interest to us in its pages, while some of the 

 photographs are excellent. That of a group of Pelicans in 

 which the young one is poking its head down the parentis 

 gullet in quest of food is very good. The Cormorant has 

 been figured feeding its young in exactly the same way. In 

 the barrancas of Patagonia, near the mouth of the Rio 

 Gallegos, Mr. S. Adams, while prospecting for fossils, found 

 the nest of a Condor-bird [Sarcorhamphus gryphus), and, as 

 in duty bound, sends a description and figure of it to the 

 'Condor' Journal. We are not aware that it has been 

 previously described, or at any rate figured. The picture of 

 the young Californian Jay (Aphelocoma californica) in no. 5 is 

 likewise excellent, as is also that of the four young Screech- 

 Owls in the same number. INIr. Clemens, who writes from 

 the shores of Lake Lanao, in the interior of Mindanao, 

 Philippines (2700 ft. alt.), has obtained a specimen of 

 the great monkey - eating Forest - Eagle described by 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant as Pithecophaga jefferyi (Bull.B. O. C. vi. 

 p. xviij, and sends a photograph of the living bird. A half- 

 digested monkey was found in its stomach, so that the bird 

 justifies its name. 



