SOME NEW BOOKS 



Books on Birds. 

 The Fauna of British India. Birds. Vol. III. By W. T. Blanford. 8vo. 

 Pp. xii., 450. London: Taylor & Francis, 1895. 



The Royal Natural History. Edited by R. Lydekker, B.A., F.R.S. Sections 

 VI. and VII., Birds. Pp. 1—288 and 289—580. London : Warne & Co., 1895. 



Allen's Naturalist's Library. Edited by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S. 

 A Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain. By R. Bowdler Sharpe. Vol. II. 

 8vo. Pp. xviii., 308, plates xxxii. — lviii. Price 6s. A Handbook to the Game 

 Birds. By W. R. Ogilvie Grant. Vol. I. 8vo. Pp. xv., 304, with 21 plates. 

 Price 6s. London : W. H. Allen & Co., 1895. 



The Structure and Life of Birds. By F. W. Headley, M.A., F.Z.S. 8vo. 

 Pp. xx., 412, 78 figs. London : Macmillan & Co., 1895. Price 7s. 6d. 



Birdcraft, a Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds. By 

 Mabel Osgood Wright. 8vo. Pp. 317, xvi., with 15 plates. London: Macmillan 

 and Co., 1895. Price 12s. 6d. nett. 



Les Oiseaux de Parcs et de Faisanderies. Par Remy Saint-Loup. Demy 

 8vo. Pp. viii., 354, with 48 figs. Paris: Bailliere, 1895. Price 3fr. 50. 



Traite de Zootechnie Speciale : Les Oiseaux de Basse-Cour. Par G. Cornevin, 

 8vo. Pp. x., 322. 4 coloured plates. Paris : Bailliere. 



Hawks and Owls from the Standpoint of the Farmer. By A. K. Fisher, 

 M.D. Pp. 215 — 232. 



Bulletin No. 7. Preliminary Report on the Food of Woodpeckers. By 

 F. E. L. Beal. The Tongues of Woodpeckers. By F. A. Lucas. 8vo. 

 Pp- 39- 



The Crow Blackbirds and their Food. By F. E. L. Beal. Pp. 233 — 248. 



Bulletin No. 6. The Common Crow of the United States. By Walter B. 

 Barrows and E. A. Schwarz. Pp. 1-98. 



U.S. Dept. Agriculture, Washington, 1S95. 



Our office table has, during the past month or two, become absolutely 

 covered by books and papers and pamphlets dealing with various 

 branches of ornithology. A few of the more important or more 

 ambitious of these works, such as Gaetke's " Birds of Heligoland," 

 and Dixon's " Migration of British Birds," we have already reviewed ; 

 but there remains a large number of works which considerations of 

 space force us to deal with more shortly. 



Among systematic works we have the third volume of " Birds " 

 in the " Fauna of British India." The first two volumes of the 

 " Aves " of this admirable series were so remarkable for their general 

 excellence, that when Mr. Oates was unexpectedly compelled to 

 return to his duties in Burma, we regarded the completion of the 

 work with feelings of dismay. Happily, the editor of this series, 



