Recently published OriiitUoluyical IVorks. 2tj7 



columns of Magyar and Gcnuan, contains a variety of inter- 

 esting papers^ among which we may call attention to those 

 by Prazak on Acrocephalus palustris horticolus and Coturnix 

 baldami of Brehm, the latter apparently a form of C. communis. 

 Good coloured figures are given of Pastor roseus and Coturnix 

 baldami. 



29. Arriffoni degli Oddi on Italian Sport and Ornithology . 



[La Caccia di Botte o di Valle iielle Lagune di Venezia. Del Dottor 

 Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi. 8vo. Milano, 1894. 



Le ultime apparizioni dell' Actvchelidon sandvicensis (Latham) nel 

 Veneziano. Nota ornitologica del Dott. Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi. 

 Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. xxxvi. p. 17.] 



The first little pamphlet contains an account of the 

 marshes and canals in the neighbourhood of Venice, the 

 wild-fowl which frequent them, and the local terms employed 

 in the sport. We notice it because it has been sent to us, 

 and also because it would be useful to any ornithologist who 

 might wish to devote his attention to that district. 



The second contribution gives details of the somewhat 

 plentiful occurrence in the vicinity of Venice in the autumn 

 of 1894 of the Tern which we call Sterna catitiaca, and which 

 appears to be otherwise a rare visitor. ' 



30. Sir Joseph Banks's Jourrial. 



[Journal of the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B., P.R.S., during 

 Capt. Cook's First Voyage in H.M.S. * Endeavour ' in 1768-71 to Tierra 

 del Fuego, Otaheite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, &c. 

 Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker. London : Macmillan & Co., 1896.] 



All naturalists will agree in thanking Sir Joseph Hooker 

 for editing and pul)lishing the most interesting Journal 

 kept by Sir Joseph Banks during Cook^s First Voyage round 

 the World. It is remarkable that the original of this precious 

 MS. should have been lost, and that the present volume has 

 been prepared from a transcript now in the British Museum. 

 The Journal is accompanied by biographical sketches and 

 portraits of Banks and his librarian and naturalist Solander, 

 and by excellent footnotes. To the sea-birds obtained and 

 observed frequent allusions will be found throughout the 



