184 Recently jmblished Ornithuloyical Works. 



Mr. Herman gives an introduction to tlie volume on Birds 

 as found in nature, and adds a further section on the pro- 

 tection given to them in Hungary. But while cordially 

 agreeing vt'ith our friends abroad in every effort to preserve 

 birdsj we do not consider that new methods are necessary in 

 Britain, where, under the present regulations, few of the 

 smaller birds are in risk o£ extermination, and the larger 

 s])ecies already receive their due meed of protection if not 

 economically injurious. Our endeavours are not always 

 successful, but the result would probably be the same under 

 the Continental rules, if adopted. 



13. Loudon on the Birds of the SemirechinsJc Province. 



[Ueber N. A. Sarudny's iind B. P. Korejew's 'Die ornithologische 

 Fauna des Semiretsclije-Gebietes.' Von H. Baron Loudon. Orn. Jahrb. 

 1907.] 



This is a notice, prepared by Baron Loudon, of an important 

 paper, written in Russian by MM. Sarudny and Korejew, 

 upon the birds of the Province of Semirechinsk, in Western 

 Siberia, which lies south of Lake Balkash. It is mainly based 

 upon a large collection of skins made by M. Korejew during 

 his military service there in 1899-1900. The specimens 

 are referred to 305 species, the names of which (only) are 

 given in Baron Loudon's abstract. There are several (to us) 

 new names in the List, e. g. Merula relicta and Cyanecuta 

 pallidogularis. 



14. Martorelli on Rare Birds in Italy. 



[Di alcune nuove appararizioni di Uccelli migratori Siberian! ed 

 Americani, e della influenza del moto rotatorio della terra sulla direzione 

 generale delle migrazioni : nuta ornitologica del socio Prof. Giacinto 

 Martorelli. Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. vol. xlvi. 1907.] 



The additions to the Avifauna of Italy recorded in the 

 present paper are Branta nigricans of North America and 

 Lanius borealis of Siberia. Of the former species two 

 specimens were obtained near IMantua in 1906, to which a 

 third was subsequently added from Ospedaletto. Of the 

 Idtter an example in the flesh was purchased in the bird- 

 market of Milan in 1889. Prof. Martorelli knows well that 



