656 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



achieved a circulation of some 36^000 copies. Numerous 

 applications for further details having been received, Mr. 

 Tegetmeier has prepared the present volume of 90 pages on the 

 subject. It contains chapters on the history of the Sparrow ; 

 on the opinions of ornithologists and farmers, who are now 

 nearly all agreed as to its detrimental qualities far exceeding 

 any good it may do in destroying noxious insects ; and on the 

 various modes of limiting its increase. Although we are 

 strongly in favour of the protection of bird-life in general, an 

 exception appears to be necessary in this instance, at any rate 

 in certain localities, and, along with rats and rabbits. Sparrows 

 must be condemned as hostes humani generis. It is well 

 known that the same conclusion has been long ago reached 

 in North America, where the subject of this introduced 

 species has been carefully studied by the U.S. Department 

 of Agriculture. 



105. Wilson and Evans's ' Aves Hawaiienses.' 



[Aves Hawaiienses : the Birds of the Sandwich Islands. T?y Scott B. 

 Wilson, F.Z.S., assisted by A. H. Evans, M.A., F.Z.S. Part VII., 

 June 1899. 4to. London : R. H. Porter.] 



We heartily congratulate the authors of the 'Aves 

 Hawaiienses^ on having brought their work to a successful 

 conclusion. This present final part contains an excellent 

 introductory essay on the history of the gradual discovery of 

 this strange avifauna, which, as we now know it, contains 53 

 Passeres, one Accipiter, two Anseres, one Limicola, and four 

 Ralli (of which two are now extinct) peculiar to the island- 

 group, and it presents a problem in geographical distribution 

 which it is very hard to solve. 



The following species are figured in the present part : — 

 (Estrelata phceopygia, Himantopus knudseni, Viridonia sagitti- 

 rostris, Himatione maculata, Pennula saridvicensis, P. wilsoni, 

 Sterna hawaiiensis. 



