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birds. Of some very distinct forms sucli as the Irish Jay 

 and Hebridean Thrush no mention at all is made. Yet all 

 these subspecies were accepted by the B.O.U. List Committee 

 of which Mr. Evans was a member. A knowledge of sub- 

 species would have prevented the author from making the 

 curious, and so far as we know totally erroneous, statement, 

 that the increase of the Great Spotted Woodpecker as a 

 breeding bird in Scotland is due to immigration from the 

 Continent. Many of the illustrations from photographs of 

 wild birds are excellent, but we think that those taken 

 from birds in captivity and from cases in the Natural 

 History Museum should have been so labelled. On p. 65 an 

 illustration of Pied Fh^catchers is upside down and wrongly 

 lettered Spotted Flycatcher, while it would have been as well 

 to mention that the Cuckoo figured on page 110 is a yovmg 

 one. H. F.'W. 



Index of Genera and Species referred to, and an Index to the 

 Plates in " The Ibis " 1895-1912. Edited by William 

 LuTLEY Sf'LATER. (British Ornith. Union.) £1 12s. 6d. 



To all those who possess recent series of the Ibis this Index 

 will be most welcome, for hitherto it has been necessary to 

 consult eighteen sej^arate indices to find references to genera 

 and species referred to since 1895. The first name index to 

 the Ibis covered the years 1859 to 1876, or fifteen volumes 

 and ran to 431 pages. The second index covering the years 

 1877 to 1894 or the same number of volumes occupied 471 

 pages, while the present work extends to 513 pages. Pro- 

 portionately to the second, this last index should have reached 

 565 pages and as in addition trinomials have been irrdexed 

 under each of the three names it would appear that fewer 

 genera and species have been referred to in the Ibis in 

 recent years than in the past. 



The compilation of the Index has been undertaken by Mr. 

 H. Peavot and Mr. T. Wells, who have completed a most 

 laborious task in a very satisfactory manner. It is really 

 impossible to avoid mistakes in such a Avork, but more careful 

 cross-checking might, we think, have been beneficial. We 

 have checked the Index here and there, and have noted the 

 following errors which may be worth mentioning : p. 80, 

 Caprimidejus eiiropctus, 1903 pp. 212 and 231 are omitted ; 

 p. 110, cirlus, Emberiza, 1895 should be 1905 ; p. 136, cyaneus, 

 Circus, 1910 p. 34 should be 39 ; p. 169, excubitor pedUdirostris, 

 Xanius, 1910 p. 48 should be 495 ; p. 217, Hirundo rustica, 

 1909 pp. 155 and 238 are omitted. H. F. W. 



