50 Short Noticeif of Ornitliological Puhlications. 



The May No. contains a paper on the Red-faced Mouse^ 

 bird {Colius indicns=^erifthromelov) by Frank Finn, B.A., 

 illustrated by a coloured plate by H. Goodchiid. 



The June No. gives us a short account of the breeding 

 of the Grey-headed Sparrow {Passer griseus = difi(sus) by 

 Mr. W. E. Teschemaker, B.A., also a further letter by this 

 writer on the Pin-tailed and Giant Whydalis. 



The July and August numbers contain an interesting 

 article by Mr. J. Lewis Bonhote, M.A., on the age of birds 

 in confinement, illustrated by a couple of photo plates. 



9. Journal filr Ornitliologie. (Orgaitofthe German Ovnltlio- 



logical Society.) 



The January 1910 No. contains an account of the Ostrich 

 farm instituted by Hagenbeck in Stellingen, by Dr. A. 

 8okolowsky. Although a certain amount of success with 

 incubator chicks was obtained, we hardly think the experi- 

 ment will prove of any great success in the long run, the 

 climatic conditions being so much at variance with what 

 Ostriches are accustomed to. 



This No. also contains a paper on the genus Pratincola of 

 Koch, by Dr. Ernst Hartert. We are sorry to see that 

 binomials are conspicuous by their absence, only two or three 

 appearing in the list, trinomialism being " to the fore/' 

 which is cumbersome to a degree, if nothing else. 



The April 1910 No. contains obituary notices of Prof. 

 Giglioli and Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe. The only thing of 

 interest to South African ornithologists in the July No., 

 besides the 9th Annual Report of the Vogelwarte Rossitten, 

 is a small paper on a " revision " of the genera Spermospiza 

 and Pyrenestes by Oscar Neumann. 



10. The Emxi. Official Organ of the Australasian Ornitho- 

 logists' Union. 



The July 1910 No. forms the first of volume x., and 

 contains, amongst pnpers of purely local interest, the follow- 

 ing which will appeal to South Africans : — " Bird Life 

 on the Kermadec Islands,^' by Tom Iredale (^herein are 



