166 Recently published Ornitholugical f Forks. 



3. Barnes on Nests and Eggs of Western India. 



[Nesting in Western India. Ry Lieut. II. E. Barnes, F.Z.S. Journ. 

 Bombay N. II. Society, vol. ill. p. 205; iv. pp. 2, 83, 237; v. pp. 1, 97, 

 31.5; vi. pp. 1,129. 



Mr. Barnes writes a series of excellent notes on the breed- 

 ing-birds of Western India, and describes their nests and 

 eggs. Eight well-execnted plates contain figures of the nests 

 and eggs of the following species : — 



Eggs of Elanus ccerulcus, i^pilornis melunotis, Hirundo Jili-. 

 fera, Ptyonoprogne concolor, Caprimulgus atripennis, C. mah- 

 rattensis, Hirundo fluvicola, Capnnmulgus indicus, C. asiuticus, 

 C. monticola, Eudynamis honorata, Turnix taigoor, T. dus- 

 sumieri, T. joudera, Cursorius coromandelicus, Houbara 

 macqueeni, Glareola lactea, JEgialitis minuta, Rhynchiea 

 bengalensis, Parra indica, Porphyrio poliocephalus, Erythra 

 phienicura, Himantopus Candidas, Hydrophasianus chirurgus, 

 Gallicrex cinereus, Porzana akool, Hypotcenidia striata. 



Nests and eggs of Hypotbymis azurea, Ixus luteolus, 

 Orthotomus sutorius, Zosterops palpebrosa, DiccBum erythro- 

 rhynchum. 



4. Buckley and Harvie-Broivn's ' Vertebrate Fauna of the 

 Orkney Islands.'' 



[A Vertebrate Fauna of the Orkney Islands. By T. E. Buckley, B.A., 

 F.Z.S., and J. A. Ilarvie-Browu, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. 8vo. Pp. 314. 

 Edinbiu'gli: 1891.] 



Messrs. Buckley and Brown have now completed their 

 " trilogy " by adding a volume on the Vertebrates of the 

 Orkneys to that oi\ the Vertebrates of Sutherland published 

 in 1887, and that on the Orkney Islands issued in 1888. The 

 plan of the present volume follows that of the preceding ones ; 

 it is got up in the same elegant way, and splendidly adorned 

 with lithographs and other illustrations. Amongst them 

 special attention should be drawn to Mr. J. G. Millais^s 

 beautiful sketches of Hoy Cliffs, Risa Little, and Stenness, 

 which are worthy of all praise. The preliminary description 

 of the Islands and their physical characters seems to be very 



