62 L Recently published Ornithological Works. 



third. For this volume, therefore, Mr. W. L. Sclater is solely 

 responsible, although he has had the advantage of consulting 

 Stark's notebooks and journals, and has made good use of 

 them. 



The third volume of the ' Birds of South Africa ' has been 

 drawn up on exactly the same lines as the first and second. 

 It contains an account of the Picarians, Parrots, Owls, and 

 Hawks of Africa south of the Zambesi, which number 

 altogether some 183 species. The text is illustrated by 141 

 figures drawn, with very few exceptions, by Mr. Gronvokl 

 specially for this work. 



A fourth volume, now in an advanced state of preparation, 

 will finish the work, but it must not be supposed that our 

 knowledge of the birds of the vast country treated of is by 

 any means complete. There are enormous areas, especially iu 

 the north and east of South Africa, almost untouched by the 

 ornithologist, and the present work constitutes merely a 

 basis upon which further information on the subject may be 

 built. 



136. Scott's ' Story of a Bird-lover.' 



[The Story of a Bird-lover. By William Earl Dodge Scott. New 

 York : The Outlook Company, 1903. 1 vol. 8vo. 372 pp.] 



This is one of the most interesting hooks to the ornith- 

 ologist that we have met with for a long time. It contains 

 an account of the life and adventures of Prof. W. E. D. 

 Scott, of Princeton, one of the most active and experienced 

 field-naturalists of North America, and author of many 

 excellent papers on American Birds, of which a list is 

 given in the Appendix. Mr. Scott was evidently devoted 

 to birds in his childhood, and has been fortunate iu 

 passing the greater part of his life in contact with them. 

 At Harvard he studied under the direction of Louis Agassiz, 

 Prof. Shaler, Dr. Wyman, and Mr. Allen, all names well 

 known to us in Europe, and was one of the original members 

 of the Nuttall Ornithological Club — the parent, so to speak, 

 of the A. O. U. After other experiences in observing and 

 collecting, Mr. Seott obtained iu 1874 a post as Curator of 



