188 Recently jJublished Ornithological Works. 



character of its moorland^ liills, and plains, its extended 

 coast-line, and, above all, the fine cliffs of the Flamborough 

 district, with their immense colonies of sea-fowl. Of old it 

 could boast of breeding-places of the Bearded Tit, Bustard, 

 Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, and Black Tern, while the 

 Goshawk nested in its woods ] and we are now informed 

 that the Dotterel may be found in summer in the western 

 portion, and that the Wigeon and Golden-eye have been 

 observed under circumstances that give countenance to the 

 belief that they also may have bred within the county. That 

 tlie Sand-Grouse did so during the great immigration of 1888 

 is, of course, notorious. The Hawfinch and Turtle-Dove 

 are reported to have greatly increased in numbers, and the 

 exact range of the Nightingale has been defined with 

 precision, though in claiming for Yorkshire its " extreme 

 northern and north-Avestern boundary," Mr. Nelson has, 

 we believe, overlooked an undoubted case of its occurrence 

 in 1893 at Whittingham, in Northumberland (Hist. Berwick- 

 shire Nat. Club, vol. xiv. p. 202). 



The Red - breasted Snipe (Macrorhampkus griscus) is 

 recorded as new to the county. 



The Introduction, largely taken from Messrs. Clarke and 

 Roebuck's former work, is concerned with the physical 

 features of Yorkshire and the status of the various species of 

 birds, with some account of the migration on the coast. The 

 illustrations are abundant, and include coloured figures of 

 the Houbara Bustard, and many views of the Flamborougl;, 

 Bempton, Buckton, and Speeton Cliffs, and of the method of 

 climbing there practised. 



The appendices contain an account of the Protection 

 afforded to Birds in the county and of ancient records. 



As regards the drumming of the Snipe, we should like to 

 call the author's attention to the paper by Mr. Bahr in a 

 late number of the "' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' 

 while on the plate facing p. 740 the Razorbill's egg seems to 

 us decidedly too small. 



