52 Short JSolices of Ornithohxfical PiihJicalioiis. 



He was a keen sportsman, and on liis last shooting-trip to 

 Rhodesia fell ill and died at Seren je, on the way from Mpika 

 to Broken Hill, on or about the 17th October, 1910, after an 

 illness of about six weeks. 



He and a friend had only left Fort Jameson a fortnight 

 when ho got laid up with trypanosomes in his blood, and 

 when they got as far as Serenje pneumonia set in and 

 Dr. Greathead died. 



A genial gentleman, a true sportsman, and a keen field- 

 naturalist, he will be missed by many friends. A. K. H. 



VI. — Short Notices of Ornkhological Piihlications. 



1. The Ibis, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithologij. 



The October 1910 number contains a paper Ijy Dr. A. 

 Bannerman, B.A., on the Birds of British East Africa, col- 

 lected by A. B. Percival, illustrated by a coloured lithograph 

 of Pytelia nitidula, male and female, of which the British 

 Museum contains an immature male from Durban, collected 

 by Grordge. Descriptions are now given of the adult male 

 and female. 



Mr. Percival also procured a specimen of Cerchneis amur- 

 ensis, with the white under wing-coverts. 



This number also contains an account of the fifth Inter- 

 national Ornithological Congress in Berlin, which seems to 

 have passed off very successfully. 



We have also a full account of the late Capt. Boyd 

 Alexander and his Ornithological work, with portrait and a 

 list of |)ublications. 



The January 1911 number contains rather a scathing 

 criticism on (running and Haagner's ' Check-list of South 

 African Birds,' the reviewer taking great excej)tion to the 

 departure from the arrangement and nomenclature of \V. L. 

 Sclater's Check-list of 1905, which is in many cases quite 

 incorrect. Why do Dr. Sharpe and Prof. KeichcMiow 

 ao'ree in so many instances ? (ride 'Hand-list of Birds'). 

 If an end is to be put to this incessant changing of 

 names, the sooner we conform to the international rules of 



