274 Recently pnldished Oniitholvyical Works, 



10. Gurney on a New-Zealand Owl, 



[The New Zealand Owl {SceIogI<mx albifacws, Gray) in Captivity. 

 By J. H. Gurney, F.L,S. Trans. Norf. & Norw. Nat. Soc. vi. p. 154.] 



Mr. Gurney gives us some useful notes on Sceloglaux 

 albifacies, tlie Wliite-faced Owl of New Zealand^ now a rare 

 bird. These are based on a living. specimen which was pro- 

 cured near Timaru, in the Southern Island, in 1895, but 

 unfortunately did not survive long in captivity. An outline 

 of the bird from life, and a figure of its tongue, are added. 

 Besides the examples mentioned by Mr. Gurney, a living 

 individual of this Owl was obtained by the Zoological Society 

 in September, 1875 (see P. Z. S. 1875, p. 530). 



41. Hood and Cones on Ornitholoyy. 



[Papers presented to the World's Congress on Ornitholos-y. Edited 

 hy ^Irs. E. Irene Hood, under the direction of Dr, Elliott Coues. 8vo. 

 Chicago: 1896.] 



This is a collection of nicely-written essays on various 

 subjects relating to birds, either read or taken as read at the 

 *' World's Congress on Ornithology/' in connection with the 

 Centennial Exhibition at Chicago, in Octol)er 189'}. The 

 Presidential Address was written by Dr. Coues, who was 

 himself unfortunately unable to be ])resent. Mr. Allen's 

 *• Migration of Birds " gives a goo 1 popular account of 

 modern views of this subject. Mr. Qnelch's address on 

 the Birds of British Guiana will be read with interest. 

 Dr. Leverkiihn contributes an account of his gallery of the 

 portraits of ornithologists. We are glad to see so many 

 references made to the question of the protection of bird- 

 life, which is assuming greater importance every year. Mr. 

 Pearson writes as follows of his visit, after three years' 

 absence, to a well-known haunt of Herons in Central Florida, 

 where he had found several hundred pairs nesting in 1888 : — 

 *' The scene had changed. Not a Heron was visible. I 

 discharged my revolver, but the answering echoes and the 

 tapping of a Woodpecker were the only response. The 

 call had come from northern cities for greater quantities 

 of Heron-plumes for millinery. The plume-hunter had 



