558 Recent Literature. Lbct. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. No. CXCVIII. 



May 28, 1914. 



Capt. H. Lynes described a recent trip to the Sudan in company with 

 Messrs. Abel Chapman and W. P. Lowe, Mirafra sobatensis (p. 129) mouth 

 of Sobat River, and Calamocichla leptorhyncha merensis (p. 130). Upper 

 White Nile, are described as new. 



Capt. Lynes also described (p. 131) Ortygospiza gabonensis a new Weaver- 

 Finch from Gaboon. 



Mr. C. Chubb described Planesticus arthuri (p. 131), Abary River, 

 British Guiana, and Euscarthnms josephinae (p. 131), Supenaam, Essequebo 

 River, British Guiana. 



Erythropygia ansorgii Ogilvie-Grant (p. 134) North Angola, and Camar- 

 optera superciliaris ugandce Stephenson Clarke (p. 136), Uganda, were also 

 described as new. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. CXCIX. June 

 29, 1914. 



Hon. W. Rothschild discussed the three Algerian races of Garrulus glan- 

 darius. 



Mr. Claude Grant described (p. 141) a New Guinea-fowl from the 

 Lake Baringo district, British East Africa, as Nuinida ptilorhyncha barin- 

 goensis. 



British Birds. Vol. VIII. No. 1. June 1, 1914. 



The Study of Bird-Notes. By Dr. Hans Stadler and Cornel Schmitt. 



Notes on the Red-necked Phalarope in the Outer Hebrides. By Mary 

 G. S. Best and Maud D. Haviland. — Photographs of Phalaropus hyper- 

 borcus. 



British Birds. Vol. VIII. No. 2. July 1, 1914. 



Ecological Relations of Bird Distribution. By S. E. Brock. — An admi- 

 rable discussion of this subject interesting alike to the student of zoogeog- 

 raphy and of bird protection. A statement that the latter should consider 

 carefully is: " Persecution has locally exterminated individual species; 

 environmental alteration has locally caused the disappearance of whole 

 groups of species. The felling of a forest or the draining of a marsh is 

 more effective than much slaughter." 



British Birds. Vol. VIII. No. 3. August 1, 1914. 



Notes on Breeding Habits of Avocets. By Mary G. S. Best. — Admira- 

 ble photographs. 



Ringing Birds in Hungary. By H. F. Witherby.— Interesting descrip- 

 tion of a new method of snaring old birds at the nest, which rarely causes 

 them to desert and is likely to yield valuable results by showing where 

 birds banded as nestlings, go to breed. 



The Avicultural Magazine. Vol. V. No. 8. June 1914. 



Crowned Cranes and Stanley Cranes. By Maurice Portal. — -Excellent 

 photographs of both species. 



Birds of N. S. Wales I have caught and kept. By G. A. Heumann. 



The Avicultural Magazine. Vol. V. No. 9. July, 1914. 



