Recently published Ornitkoluykul Works. 465 



however, consider that it has yet been eouchisively shown 

 that the northei-n Waders {Numenius hudsonicus, Limosa 

 hudsonica, Tringa camitus, T. fuscicoUis, &c.), whieh are 

 occasionally found in Patagonia in the summer, actually 

 breed there. That they occur there in the breeding-season 

 is no proof of this at all, as we know by experience in 

 the Old World. Let us wait until some diligent field- 

 ornithologist has been out there and brought home their 

 nests and eggs. 



The second portion of Herr Schalow's memoir is devoted 

 to an accurate revision of the biids of Juan Fernandez, 

 where about 10 species are now known to occur. 



81. Sharpe's Wonders of the Bird-world. 



[Wonders of the Bird-world. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., 

 &c. With Illustrations by A. T. Elwes. 8vo. London : Wells 

 Gardner, Darton & Co., 1898.] 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, being obliged to give up " the strain 

 of speaking in public," has put the gist of his well-known 

 lectures on the curiosities of bird-life into the volume now 

 before us, which we are sure will be much appreciated by 

 all who are interested in birds and their ways of life. 

 Chapters are given on birds wonderful both in shape and in 

 decoration, on their playing-grounds, their nests and eggs, 

 their courtship and dances, their mimicry and protective 

 resemblances in colour, their migration and their geogra- 

 phical distribution. Many of the particulars on these 

 subjects are, of course, well-known stories ; but even the 

 most experienced authority on birds will not fail to gather 

 fresh information from these well-filled pages. The illus- 

 trations, drawn by Mr. A. T. Elwes, are numerous and 

 mostly well executed, though exception might be taken to 

 some of them. We are specially pleased with the " sug- 

 gested restoration of Phororachus " from Mr. Pycraft's 

 sketch and with the ''Wood-Hoopoes and Cobra,'^ not to 

 mention the ejection of its companion-nestlings by the young 

 Cuckoo, taken from Mrs. Hugh Blackburn^s spirited sketch. 



The systematic review of the orders and families of birds, 



