120 Short Notices of Ormthologlcal Publications. 



with photographs. Amongst these we notice, besides the 

 living celebrities well-known to all of us, Professor Newton, 

 who died in 1907, E. L. Layard, J. H. Gurney, Capt. Speke, 

 and R. Swinhoe, only to mention names of special interest to 

 African ornithologists. A list of the Members from 1858- 

 1908 concludes this valuable and interesting publication. 



8. Bulletin British Ornithologists^ Club, No. cxliv., June 



1908. 



In this number Mr. E. C. Chubb, of the Bulawayo Museum, 

 describes a new Lark, under the name of Pinarornis rhodesiw, 

 from the Matoppos, Rhodesia, similar to P. pluniosus, Sharpe. 



Mr. Claude Grant, the energetic collector of the Rudd 

 Zool. Exploration of South Africa, describes a new genus 

 and species of Lark, under the name of Heteronyx ruddi, 

 resembling Mirafra cheniana. He also records from South 

 Africa for the first time Mirafra zomhcc, Ogilvie-Grant, from 

 the Beira district. 



9. A Monograph of the Petrels {Order Tubinares). By 



F. Du Cane" Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., President 

 B.O.U. 



In the April 1908 number of this Journal we reviewed the 

 first number of this sumptuous work. Parts ii. & iii. have now 

 reached us, and treat of the genera Cymodroyna (conclusion), 

 Puffinus, Priofnus, Thalassoeca, Priocella, Majagueus, and 

 CEstrelata. The South African species figured are — Ptifinus 

 gravis (0. Reilly), P. kuhli (Boie), Priofinus ciriereus (Gm.), 

 Priocella glacialoides (Sin.), Majaqueus CBquinoctialis (K.), 

 CEstrelata macroptera (Smith), (E. lessoni (Garnot), (E. in- 

 ce?'ta, Schlegel, and ffi. mollis (Gould). 



As stated in our first notice of this work, it will be of 

 inestimable value to such of our Members at or near the coast 

 who can afford to pay the price of £10 lO^., and certainly 

 every museum should possess it. 



10. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, No. 4, August 1909. 

 This number contains the descriptions of two new South 



