178 Recent Literature. [j a u n k 



Kuroda, Nagamichi. Notes on Formosan Birds, with Description of a 

 New Bullfinch. (Ibid.) — An annotated list of 120 species and descrip- 

 tion of Pyrrhula uchidai (p. 295), Shiskaban, Ako District. [In English.] 



Kuroda, Nagamichi. Notes on Corean and Manchurian Birds. (Ibid., 

 Part IV, July, 1918.) — An annotated list of 204 species and a list of all the 

 species known from these two countries. [In English.] 



Stuart-Baker, E. C. The Game Birds of India. (Jour. Bombay Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. XXVI, No. 1, December, 1918.) Very full account of the 

 species of the genera Catreus and Loph ura. In the next number for May 

 1919, the genus Lophophorus is considered. 



Ticehurst, C. B. The Mesopotamian Bulbul. (Ibid.). — ■ Pi/cnonotus 

 leucotis mesopotamios (p. 279), Basra, Lower Mesopotamia, is described 

 as new. 



Whistler, H. Notes on Birds of the Ambala District, Punjab. (Ibid.). 

 — Concluded from XXV, p. 681. 



Donald, C. H. The Birds of Prey of the Punjab. (Ibid.) 



Ticehurst, C. B. On Asiatic Starlings. (Ibid., No. 2, May, 1919.) 



Whistler, H. Some Birds of the Ludhiana District. (Ibid.) 



Jones, A. S. Birds found in the Simla Hills 1908-1918. (Ibid.) 



Gabriel, Joseph. On the Distraction of Mutton-birds and Penguins 

 at Phillip Island. — By barbed wire fences and the introduction of foxes. 

 (The Victorian Naturalist, XXXV, April 1919, pp. 178-180.) 



Duerden, James E. Some Results of Ostrich Investigations. (South 

 African Jour, of Sci., XV, No. 4, November -December, 1918.) — A most 

 important contribution to the life history and development of the Ostrich; 

 fully illustrated. 



Finch-Davies, C. G. On Birds Collected and Observed in the District 

 of Okanjande and Outjo, S. W. African Protectorate. (South African 

 Journal of Nat. Hist., I, No. 1, May, 1918.) — An annotated list of 147 species. 



Swynnerton, C. F. M. Stray Notes on Birds. (Ibid.) — The habits 

 and peculiarities of Nightjars. The occurrence of Pelicans in southern 

 Rhodesia, 200 miles from the sea. The coloration of Glaucidium perlatum 

 causing a resemblance to a Syrnium. 



Godfrey, Robert. The Birds of the Buffalo Basin, Cape Province. 

 (Ibid.). 



Charbonnier, H. J. The Lustre of Some Feathers of Hummingbirds 

 (Nature, 103,,p. 324, June 26, 1919) suggests that reflected light from crown 

 and gorget illuminates the tube of the flower at which the bird is feeding. 



Guthrie, Donald. Some Bird Notes from South Uist. (Scottish 

 Naturalist, September-October, 1919.) 



Additional Publications Received. 1 — Bird Notes and News. Autumn 

 Number, 1919. (Bird protection in England) . 



1 Inasmuch as nearly all of the publications received are noticed in the issue of 'The Auk ' 

 immedialely following their receipt il seems unnecessary to list them all at end of 'Recent 

 Literature' so hereafter only such as have not been reviewed, either because of lack of 

 ornithological matter in their contents or because of lateness of receipt will be listed here. 



