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the Museum of Zoology at Princeton College, New Jersey, 

 which we believe he holds at the present moment, although 

 he has only recently returned to it after some years of 

 wanderings elsewhere. During this interval the plains of 

 Colorado, the coast-lands of Florida, and the deserts of 

 Southern Arizona have alike become familiar to him, so that 

 few individuals can be better acquainted with the varied 

 features of the Nearctic Ornis than our author. This, 

 indeed, will be at once apparent to those who read Prof. Scott's 

 lively account of his adventures in the above-mentioned and 

 other specially selected collecting-spots. Mr. Scott also 

 passed several months in Jamaica in 1890, and gave his 

 brother ornithologists of Europe the pleasure of his company 

 in the spring of 1900, his special object being to examine the 

 South-American specimens in the British Museum for a 

 work on the birds of Patagonia, upon which he is now 

 engaged. But we invite all the readers of c The Ibis' to 

 peruse Prof. Scott's ornithological adventures for themselves, 

 and not to be content with the mere outline of them con- 

 tained in our notice of his most attractive volume. Above 

 all, let them mark the account of the ravages caused by the 

 odious " plume-hunters " in the heronries of Florida, as 

 personally witnessed by Prof. Scott, who found " vast piles 

 of carcasses of the dead parents stripped of their beautiful 

 plumes lying about, and thousands of young birds left to 

 starve to death in misery in their nests." 



137. Seth- Smith's ' Parr afreets.' 



[Parrakeeta : being a practical Handbook to those Species kept ia 

 Captivity. By David Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. Parts3-5. Pp. 81- 

 216, 10 pis. London: R. II. Porter, 1902-1003. Price 6s. per part, 

 net.] 



In these parts the author continues his account (cf. supra, 

 p. 131) of the various species of Parrakeets, with notes on 

 their habits, either as observed in captivity or as recorded 

 by those who have met with the birds in their native haunts. 

 The description of the nesting-habits of Agapornis roseicollis 

 is especially noteworthy. The genera treated are Brotogerys, 



