272 Recent Literature. [April 



British Birds. January 1, 1912. Vol. V, No. 8. 



Dr. L. Bureau's work on the Partridge. By N. F. T. — A review in 

 English of this recent volume which comprises probably the most detailed 

 study of molt in live birds that has yet appeared. 



The North American Peregrine in Lincolnshire and Leicestershire. By 

 G. H. Eaton Haigh. 



British Birds. February 1, 1912. Vol. V, No. 9. 



Breeding and "Eclipse" Plumages of the Common Partridge. By 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. — A phase not hitherto recorded, perhaps analogous 

 to one of the plumages of the Ptarmigan. 



The Avicultural Magazine. Vol. III. No. 3. January, 1912. 



A Roccolo in Italy by Hubert D. Astley. — An interesting account of the 

 device for catching migrating birds. 



The Blue Robin [!] Sialia sialis. By Catharine Currey. — An account 

 of our Bluebird as a cage bird. 



A Jay New to Aviculture, Calocitta lidthii Hubert D. Astley. — It is but 

 a few years ago that this rare Loo Choo Garrulus was known only from 

 Bonaparte's description. This is probably the first time that it has been 

 placed in the genus Calocitta! 



The Avicultural Magazine. Vol. III. No. 4. February, 1912. 



Some Notes on the Secretary Bird. By Major Horsbrugh and W. H. 

 St. Quentin. — Habits of wild and captive birds. 



Notes on a Storm Petrel in Captivity. By C. B. Ticehurst. — The bird 

 Procellaria pelagica, always stood on the entire tarsi, only rising on the toes 

 when flapping the wings at the beginning of flight. 



Publications Received. — Beebe, C. Wilham and Crandall, Lee, S. 

 The Undescribed Juvenal Plumage of the Yucatan Jay. Zoological 

 Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, Vol. I, No. 7, 

 1911. 



Bent, A. C. Notes on Birds Observed During a Brief Visit to the 

 Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea in 1911. (Smithson. Misc. Coll. 56, No. 

 32, 1912.) 



Berlepsch, Hans Graf von. Beschreibung neuer Vogelformerans dem 

 Gebiete des unteren Amazonas. (Ornith. Monatsberichte Februarheft 

 1912, pp. 17-21.) 



Berlepsch, Hans Graf von. Revision der Tanagriden. (Bericht liber 

 den V. Internationalen Ornithologen-Kongress, Berlin, 1910, pp. 1001- 

 1161.) 



Campbell, A. J. A History of Australian Ornithological Research. 

 (Emu, XI, Pt. 3, 1912, pp. 153-157.) 



Goldman, E. A. A New Kingfisher from Panama. (Smithson. Misc. 

 Coll. .56, No. 27, 1911.) 



Hellmayr, C. E. Description de Trois Nouvelles Especes d'Oiseaux 

 des Families de Dendrocolaptides et Formicariides. (Rev. Francaise 

 d'Orn. Nos. 24et24bis 1911.) 



