5(J Sltort yotices of Ornlthologkal Pi(hlications. 



VIII. — Sliort Xotices of OrnitJiulogical Publications. 

 I. The Ibis : a Quarterli/ Journal of Ornithology, 



The July .1908 number contains a continuation of 

 Mr. C. F. M. Swjnnerton's papers on the birds of Gazaland. 

 It is illustrated by a beautiful chromo-lithographic plate 

 depicting the eggs of the following birds : — yectarinia 

 arturi, Ciuni/ris olivacina, Serinus sharpei, Sitagra ocularia 

 (a pale blue-green mottled with olive-green variety), Dryo- 

 scopus guttatus (^=- Laniarius major), L. quadricolor, L. starki, 

 Batis erythrophthalma, Terpsiphone plurnbeiceps, S'nithurnis 

 capensis, Cossypha natalensis, C. heuglini, Phyllastrephns 

 milanjensis, P. capeiisis, P. flavostriatus, Chlorocichla occi- 

 dentalis, Erythacus swynnertoni. 



The following are recorded from South Africa for the 

 first time : — Cypselus a (juatorialis, v. Miill., Dendropicns 

 zanzibari, Malh., and Melociclda orientalis, Sharpe. In this 

 paper Mr. Swynnerton follows the error made by Mr. W. L. 

 Sclater in calling the Brown-necked Parrot /-'. robustus 

 angolensis, when it should be P. r. suahelicus (vide Kchw. 

 vol. ii. pp. 8 & 9). 



In the account of the Annual General Meeting we are 

 pleased to see that new rules have been passed which will 

 assist in the preservation of certain birds in the British 

 Isles. 



The October number, which is the 200th (and the last of 

 the 50th Anniversary), contains only a sliort paper on the 

 "Breeding-seasons of the Birds in Southern Kamerun," by 

 G. L. Bates, of interest to South African ornithologists. 



II. The International Convention for the Protection of Birds 

 concluded in 1902 ; and Hungary, by Otto Herman, 

 Director of the Hung. Centr. Bur. of Ornithology. 

 (Budapest, 1907.) 

 This is an account of the European movement for the 

 protection of birds and is issued under the auspices of the 

 Hungarian Minister of Agriculture. The subject was dis- 

 cussed at each of the International Ornitholo^^ical Conf^-esses 



