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shaped, and the bill strong and sharply pointed. A. fulvipennis

inhabits S.W. and S. Africa.


Hubert D. Astley.


[It is difficult to identify these birds by the names used by

Mr. Astley, but most probably the South African species he refers

to is Amydrus morio, while that from Palestine is Hagiopsartristrami,

of which species the late Canon Tristram presented several living

specimens to the late Lord Lilford many years ago.— Eds.]



ROCK THRRSHES


Sirs, —Could any of the readers of the Avicultural Magazine

tell me where it is possible to obtain Rock Thrushes from in any

of the coast towns of Southern France or Northern Italy, as I am

going there in a few weeks’ time and should like to bring one or two

back with me if I can obtain them.


Sydney Porter.



NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS

British Birds. H. F. & G. Witherby, 326 High Holborn, London

Monthly, Is. 9 d. ; yearly, 20s.


British Birds maintains its very high standard of excellence, and

in spite of the present cost of production is able to publish some very

fine photographs. In the October number Miss E. L. Turner con¬

tributes an article on the Haunt of the Black-tailed Godwit, with

some first-rate photographs of this bird nesting on the sand-dunes

which protect Holland from the North Sea, while in the November

number the same author writes on the Black Tern, and illustrates her

paper with some even more striking pictures. Mr. A. H. Machell Cox

contributes “ Some Notes on the Nesting of the Nuthatch ” ;

Mr. Charles E. Alford writes on Diving Ducks, from observations

made along the coast of the North Pacific, and supplies some valuable

records of the period of submersion. Dr. N. F. Ticehurst gives some

early records of the Crane in Kent, while Mr. A. W. Boyd contributes

a most interesting record of the appearance of a flock of Glossy

Ibises in Cornwall last September, and other writers record examples

seen in Devon and Herefordshire.



