Short Notices of Ornithological Publications. 223 



written by Dr. Otto Herman for the 4th International 

 Congress of Ornitholooy in London. 



Amongst articles of local interest, attention must be drawn 

 to the Eleventh Annual Report of the Hungarian Ornitho- 

 logical Central Bureau, by Jakob Schenk, on the Migration 

 in Hungary during the Spring of 1904. 



27. Report on the Immigrations of Summer Residents in the 



Spring of VMG, forming Vol. XX. of the ''Bulletin' of 

 the British Ornithologists' Club. 



This report deals with 34 species which have been specially 

 observed, and gives maps of each species, meteorological 

 data, &c. 



In view of the appointment of a special migration com- 

 mittee and the work before us in South Africa, this report 

 has special interest for us. AVhen the countries to which 

 the British summer residents migrate have properly conducted 

 surveys, the European reports w ill have an additional interest 

 and importance. 



The Select Committee, consisting of Dr. F. G. Penrose 

 (Chairman), C. B. liickett, C. B. Ticehurst, N. F. Ticehurst, 

 and J. L. Bonhote (Secretary), are to be congratulated on 

 their work, although this has been somewhat severely criticised 

 by ' Nature.-' 



28. ^ Journal fur OrnitJiologie,' No. 1 (January 1907). 



This number contains two valuable contributions to our 

 knowledge of the African Ornis. 



The first is a further instalment of the late Baron von 

 Erlanger's exhaustive paper on the ''■ Avifauna of North-east 

 Africa." It is illustrated by three coloured plates depicting 

 the following new species : Poliospiza collaris, llchw., R. er- 

 langeri, llchw., P. reicharcli, Rchw., P. pacliyrhynclia., Rchvv., 

 Anthus nivescens, Rchvv. ; Tmctothylacus tenellus (Cab.) is 

 also figured — the female in toto, and the wings of both sexes. 

 It will be remembered that the latter species was last year 

 added to the South African List by Mr. L. E. Taylor. 



