376 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Full details are ^iven respecting the nesting of nine species 

 which were found breeding on Wandel Island. This is 

 specially the case as regards the three Penguins, the eggs 

 of which supplied the members of the expedition with 

 excellent and abundant food. Copious field-notes concerning 

 all the birds met with are supplied by Dr. Charcot and other 

 members of the expedition. 



A well-drawn series of 13 plates illustrates the lite and 

 habits of the Penguins and other birds observed, and a chart 

 shews the exact position of *' rookeries " of Penguins and 

 Cormorants on Wandel Island and the adjoining islands on 

 the coast of Graham-land. 



43. Mullens on Gilbert White. 



[Gilbert White of Selborne. A Lecture delivered before tlie Hastings 

 and St. Leonards Natural History Society. By W. H. MuUeus. 

 London : Witherby & Co., 1907. 32 pp.] 



This reprint of Mr. Mullens's lecture Avill be found most 

 useful by all who need a concise account of the great 

 naturalist of Selborne and his work. Well-written^ care- 

 fully compiled, and with several illustrations^ it is a model 

 of compression, and is, moreover, furnished with a full list 

 of the different editions of White's chief work. A facsimile 

 is given of the titlepage of the first of these, while the 

 subject is treated under the heads of the author^ the village, 

 and the book itself. 



44. Ogilvie-Grant on the Birds of the Gunong Tahan 

 Expedition. 



[NaiTative of the Gunong Tahan Expedition. Birds : by W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant. Journ. Malay States Museums, vol. iii. pp. 1-57, pis. ii. & iii.] 



It is evident that there is still much to be done — as regards 

 birds, at any rate — in the mountains of the Malay Peninsula. 

 The explorations of Messrs. Wray and Robinson on 

 Gunong Tahan in the northern border of Pahang and the 

 adjoining ranges have produced results of the greatest 

 interest. The close affinitv between the highland-faunas of 



