180 llecently published Ornithological Works. 



7. Dresser on Pala>.arctic Birds' Eggs. 



[Eggs of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting the 

 Western Palaearctic Area. By H. E. Dresser. Parts IX., X., pp. 289- 

 360, 8 pis. London : October 1907.] 



In these parts the letterpress of Mr. Dresser's work is 

 continued from the genus Lanius to Loxia, and includes 

 certain Shrikes, the Waxwing, the Flycatchers, Swallows, 

 and Finches in general. The eggs figured are those of 

 Fringilla, Linota, Carpodacus, Erythrospiza, Bucanetes, 

 Uragus, Pyrrhula, Pinicola, Loxia, Emberiza, Calcarius, 

 Plectrophanes, Certhiluuda, Otocorys, Melanocorypha, Alauda, 

 Galerita, Arnmomanes, CalandreUa, Montifringilla, Cypselus, 

 Dendrocopus, Acanthyllis, Picdides, lynx, Alcedo, Merops, 

 Upupa, and Alca impennis. All these figures come out par- 

 ticularly well, while the two eggs of the Great Auk, from 

 the Chapney Collection, are light-coloured specimens with 

 very rufous markings. The eggs of the Chaffinch, Lesser 

 Redpoll, Cirl Bunting, and Wood-Lark strike us as particu- 

 larly good, but all are much on the same level of execution, 

 though the darker blue specimens come out rather less 

 clearly. 



8. ' The Emu.' 



[The Emu. A Quarterly Magazine to popularize the Study and 

 Protection of Native Birds. Vol. vii. pts. 1, 2. Melbourne, 1907.] 



These two parts of our contemporary are chiefly devoted 

 to papers on the birds of special localities ; but one article at 

 least is of a more general character, namely, that by Mr. A. 

 H. Mattingley on the Heronries at Mattoura, Riverina, New- 

 South Wales. Here the author, in company with Mr. J. 

 Ross, took the first recorded eggs of Mesophoyx plumifera, 

 besides those of other uncommon species ; while in a second 

 communication he deplores the terrible destruction wrought 

 by the plume-hunters, and gives illustrations of the starving 

 young. 



Mr. W. H. D. Le Souef takes us afield to Japan in his 

 account of the nesting of ChcEtura caudacuta, while Messrs. 



