Recently published Ornithological Works, 181 



G. P. Hill, R. Hall, T. B. Austin, and Miss J. A. Fletcher 

 begin or continue their notes on the birds of the Ararat, 

 Townsend River, Talbragar River, and Wilmot districts 

 respectively, the last-named place being in Tasmania. 



Mr. F. L. Berney writes on the food of birds, as found in 

 a series of their stomachs, Mr. J. Batey on the Avifauna of 

 a part of the Melbourne district in the early part of the 

 nineteenth century, Mr. G. Home characterizes anew variety 

 of Zosterops (near Z. cinerea) as Z. bowia ; and an unnamed 

 author describes a trip after bear and walrus to the North 

 Pacific, in a paper which seems to have little or no connexion 

 with Ornithology. 



9. Haines on the Birds of Rutland. 



[Notes on the Birds of Rutland. By C. Reginald Haines. Loudon : 

 R. H. Porter, 1907. Pp. i-xlvii, 1-175.] 



Mr. Haines has given us, in this book, an account of all 

 that is known of the birds of his county, and has carried out 

 his plan with great judgment. The volume is small, yet 

 contains everything that is necessary in a local Avifauna. 

 The author is careful to inform us of the authority on which 

 each of his records rests, while he has taken considerable 

 trouble to collect them from former as well as from present 

 sources. Rutland is a small county, and perhaps will never 

 afford material for a very large work ; but we hope that 

 Mr. Haines will find his facts accumulate in the future to a 

 sufficient extent to publish a second and more elaborate 

 edition. Many of the species have at present to be included 

 on the evidence of gamekeepers and taxidermists — a state of 

 things which will, no doubt, be altered as time goes on, and 

 we think that square brackets might have been used more 

 freely in certain cases. The articles on the Raven, Little 

 Owl, and Bonaparte's Gull are of particular interest, but we 

 do not believe that Lord Lilford intended to guarantee the 

 story of the nesting of the Bee-eater, though he certainly 

 gave the details obtained from Mr. A. C. Elliot when Avriting 

 of the Birds of Northamptonshire. 



