130 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



notes, Mr. Henry Evans announces tlie capture of a Great 

 Shearwater at St. Kilda, and we notice that for this species 

 the old and familiar name Pufflnus major (Faber) is em- 

 ployed. We fear, however, that it must be rejected in 

 favour of P. gravis (O'Reilly), which has priority by four 

 years, and is not only well described but unmistakably 

 figured. Salvin, who never discarded an accepted name 

 without reluctance, felt compelled to adopt the title P. gravis 

 (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 373). 



3. Arundel on Ackworth Birds. 



[Ackworth Birds, being a List of Birds of the District of Ackworth, 

 Yorkshire. By Major Walter B. Arundel. 8vo. Gurney & Jackson, 

 London, 1898.] 



Roughly speaking, Ackworth is in the neighbourhood of 

 Pontefract, an undulating and well-wooded district. The 

 species enumerated are 149, and are divided into Permanent 

 Residents (54), Regular Summer-Residents (26), Regular 

 Winter- Residents (9), and Visitors (60). The author ac- 

 knowledges assistance from Mr. J. H. Salter and others, 

 and although local or hypercritical ornithologists may be able 

 to pick holes in 'Ackworth Birds ■' here and there, yet it seems 

 to us to be, on the whole, a very careful piece of work. 



4. Audubon and his Journals. 



[Audubon and his Journals. By Maria R. Audubon, with Zoological 

 and other Notes by Elliott Coues. With Thirty-seven Illustrations, 

 including three hitherto unpublished Bird Drawings, and ten Portraits of 

 Audubon. 2 vols. 8vo. London : John C. Nimmo, 1898.] 



We are not surprised at the appreciation of Audubon and 

 his work felt by our brethren in the U.S. Audubon, though 

 he was born in France and published his principal books in 

 England, devoted the best part of his life to the study of the 

 birds and other animals of his adopted country, and, con- 

 sidering the circumstances in which he was placed, achieved 

 a remarkable success. 



For the two volumes now before us we have to thank the 

 energy of his grand -daughter, most efficiently aided by our 



