° i9ig J Recent Literature. 499 



British Birds. XII, No. 1. June, 1918. 



Some New Facts about Grit. By Dugald Macintyre. — Sometimes 

 ejected in castings, sometimes in droppings. Retention in the stomach 

 determined by its condition, whether sharp or worn. Curlew eject the 

 whole lining of the stomach with the grit inside, in autumn. 



The Moults and Sequence of Plumages of the British Waders. Part VI. 

 By Annie C. Jackson. 



Bird Notes from Macedonia. By J. M. Harrison. 



British Birds. XII, No. 2. July, 1918. 



The Effect of the Winter of 1916-1917 on our Resident Birds. By 

 Rev. F. R. C. Jourdain and H. F. Witherby. Part II. 



The Moults and Sequence of Plumages of the British Waders. Part VII. 

 By Annie C. Jackson. 



British Birds. XII, No. 3. August, 1918. 



The First Nesting Record of the Great Skua in the Orkneys. By Rev. 

 F. R. C. Jourdain. 



Heather and Grouse Disease. By Dugald Macintyre. — Considers 

 climatic conditions, which cause a blight in the heather, the fundamental 

 cause of ' grouse disease ' although the immediate cause may be, as the 

 grouse disease Commission reported, the presence of internal parasites. 



Some Breeding Habits of the Sparrow Hawk. No. 6. By J. H.Owen. — 

 Laying and Incubation. 



Avicultural Magazine. IX. No. 7. May, 1918. 



Nesting of the Long-eared Owl on the Ground. By J. H. Gurney. 



Avicultural Magazine. IX, No. 9. July, 1918. 



Puffins on the Sal tee Islands. By G. E. Low. — With an interesting 

 photograph of the colony. 



The Austral Avian Record. Vol. Ill, No. 6. June 25, 1918. 



Alfred John North, Ornithologist: An Appreciation. By Gregory M. 

 Mathews. — With portrait. 



On Pachycephala melanura Gould. By Gregory M. Mathews. 



On Turdus maxiUaris Latham. By Gregory M. Mathews. — The 

 specific name as applied to the Australian Sphecotheres is rejected as Mr. 

 Mathews considers that the Watling plate, here reproduced, -cannot repre- 

 sent this bird which therefore becomes S. vieilloti Vig. and Horsf. The 

 genus he would remove from the Oriolidm to the Campophagidw following 

 Pycraft. The species S. stalker i he thinks must have been taken in New 

 Guinea and not in Australia as it has never since been found in the latter 

 coimtry. 



A Forgotten Ornithologist. By Gregory M. Mathews and Tom Iredale. — 

 Through the courtesy of Mr. C. Davies Sherborn an apparently rare and 

 hitherto overlooked work by F. P. Jarocki, a Polish naturalist, is here 

 described and considered in relation to ornithological nomenclature. The 

 volume in question is the bird volume of a ' Zoologia ' which was never 

 completed, stopping for some reason with volume six. It appeared in 

 1821. A number of new generic names occur in Jarocki's work of which 



