50 Slmrt Xofires of Ornitholoykal Puhl'i cations. 



we should certainly feel disposed to agree with him. As on 

 instance we may take the nestlings of the little Tliree-collared 

 Plover [Charadrius tricollaris). In its striped downy coat of 

 reddish, black, and white it matches the mud-clots, sticks, and 

 pebhles of its abode to a remarkable extent. Again, young 

 Francolin and Guinea Fowl bear this striping, which is parti- 

 cularly well developed on the head, and when alarmed crouch 

 down immediately, with the head and neck outstretched, and 

 thus become practically invisible. — There appears also a 

 paper on " Wind and Flight " (Part I.), by F. W. Headley, 

 JVl.A., &c. (an authority on the subject), illustrated by photo- 

 graphs and diagrams. 



V. ' The AvlruUural Magazine' November 190G to 



October 1907. (Eleven numbers.) 

 The November 190G number contains an interesting paper 

 by Mr. D. Seth-Smith (the Editor) on " Some Notes on tbe 

 Quails of the Genus Coturni.r.^'' This is illustrated by a 

 lithographic plate, in colours, of the heads of six of the seven 

 kiiown species, including the two African forms Cohtrnix 

 capensla and C. delagorguei. The latter bird Mr. Seth-Smith 

 reared without difficulty in his aviaxy. 



In the December number Mr. J. H. Gurney gives an 

 account of the breeding of the Jackal Buzzard in his aviaries 

 in Norfolk. He describes the plumage of the young bird at 

 the age of six months, and the observations of Haagner and 

 Ivy on the plumage at this stage, published in this Journal, 

 a])pear to coincide with those of Mr. Gurney. Mr. Meade- 

 Waldo gives an account of a visit to Dassen Island, in a 

 pa]»er on the "Birds seen during the 1905-() (Jruise of the 

 ' Valhalla ''' (reference to which has already been made in 

 these pages). 



The March 1907 number contains a ))aper on tbe Blue 

 Korhaan (0. ccerulescens) by Capt. B. R. Horsbrugh, A.SC. 

 There is nothing added to the information given by his 

 brother in his article in the June 1906 number of this Journal. 

 At the Bird Show held in the Crystal Palace, in the Waxbill- 

 Grassfinch Class, a pair of Violet-eared Waxbills took the 



