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attention to tlie institution of this new periodical, and now 

 liave to record the completion of: the first annual volume. 

 * British Birds ' appears to have become a great success, and 

 we hear favourable reports of it on every side. The articles 

 on recent additions to our knowledge of the Birds of the 

 British List have been very useful, and we hope that they 

 may be continued to the end of the subject. Mr. Selous's 

 notes on the nesting-habits of ixire birds are most instructive, 

 as is also Dr. Harteit's explanation of the 21 forms which 

 he considers to be more or less strictly peculiar to the 

 British Islands. 



The discovery of the lower half of a tibia of the Great 

 Auk in the Orkneys, though not unexpected, is of much 

 interest. 



Besides the regular twelve numbers we have received a 

 '^special photographic number" of ' British Birds' in seveu 

 chapters. It contains 32 plates illustrative of the " home- 

 life of Marsh -birds," photographed and described by Miss 

 Turner and Mr. P. H. Bahr, and will, we are sure, be much 

 appreciated by all Ornithologists. 



61. Crawshay's ' Birds of Tierra del Faego.'* 



[The Birds of Tierra del Fuego. By Richard Crawshay, Captain, 

 Reserve of Officers ; late Inniskilling Dragoous. Loudon : Bernard 

 Quaritch, 1907. 1 vol. 4to.] 



This is a nicely got-up work — print, paper, and illus- 

 trations all excellent — and does credit to the author and 

 publisher alike. Captain Crawshay, well known to many of 

 us through his long and various experiences in Africa, 

 " sighing for pastures new,"" went off to the extreme south 

 of the New World " to explore Patagonia." Arriving at 

 Punta Arenas in August 1904, he found the country 

 *' weather-bound and impassable," and, not feeling recon- 

 ciled to two months' idleness, accepted a welcome alternative 

 offered to him of seeing something of Tierra del Fuego " under 

 exceptional facilities generously afforded." 



After an interesting and well-written preface, in which 



