366 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Union, and the speech of the Vice-President, Mr. A. J. 

 Campbell, on Bird-Protection in the Old World, the subject- 

 matter being taken from the recent Hungarian Avork of 

 Herr Otto Herman. Portraits^ are furnished of Col. Ryan 

 and Professor Newton, the latter after that in the periodical 

 ' British Birds/ The Supplement consists of a '^ Hand- 

 list of the Birds of Australia," by Mr. G. M. Mathews, 

 of Watford (England), who proposes to issue a coloured plate 

 of every species in a future work. Attention should ])e 

 drawn to certain changes of names made by the writer, in 

 consequence of the discovery of Watling's plates. This list 

 is based on the ' Hand-list^ of Dr. B. B. Sharpe. 



34. Fairest on the ^luna of North Wales. 



[The Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales. By H. E. Forrest. London : 

 Witherby & Co., 1907. 537 pp., 28 pis., and map.] 



As the author remarks in his preface, North Wales, 

 though unrivalled in its scenery and the home of many 

 rare species, both now and formerly, has been somewhat 

 unfortunate, in comparison with its size, in the number 

 of writers on its Vertebrates. The avifauna alone has 

 received proper attention, and that chiefly in later years 

 and in special districts, though Pennant made an auspicious 

 start towards the end of the eighteenth century. We are 

 therefore truly grateful to ]\lr. Forrest for satisfying so 

 much felt a want. With the help of a host of contri- 

 butors, duly commemorated, he has produced an excellent 

 treatise of more than 500 pages, which he modestly terms 

 only a pioneer work. In this he sums up our present 

 knowledge of the fauna, and leaves further details to be 

 added by a future hand : a course in which we fully concur, 

 though it leaves certain species, the Waxwing for instance, 

 much in need of additional records. 



The plates, chiefly reproductions of photographs of scenery, 

 are well worthy of the volume, while the first four portray 

 Pennant and his home, Williams, Gregson, Price, Parry, 

 Eyton, Moses, Brockholes, and Gosling, to whom we are 



