612 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



XLVI. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Contiuued from p. 474.] 



91. Australian Museum Report. 



[Report of tlie Trustees of the Australian Museum, New South Wales, 

 for the year 1895.] 



By the forty-second Annual Report of the Trustees of the 

 Australian JMuseum, Sydney^ of which Mv. R. Etheridge, 

 jun., is now Curator^ we learn that the progress of this great 

 institution has been satisfactory, though somewhat hampered 

 by want of funds. Mr. North^s account of his year's work 

 in the Class of Birds will be read with interest by ornitho- 

 logists. The ''group-collection/^ which is intended to 

 illustrate the life-histories of Australian birds, has been 

 augmented by 16 cases, and now represents 61 species. 



92. Chapman {Abel) on Northern Birds. 



[Wild Norway : with Chapters on Spitsbergen, Denmark, etc. By 

 Abel Chapman. Illustrated by the Author, assisted by Chas. Whymper 

 and P. Ch. French. London : Edward Arnold, 1897.] 



In this inspiriting book the author gives the results of his 

 experiences in Northern Europe during sixteen years. Even 

 if we put aside, from our point of view, the accounts of 

 sport with elk and reindeer, grouse and ptarmigan, salmon 

 and trout, there remains plenty to interest the reader of 

 exclusively ornithological tastes, while a general idea of 

 Scandinavia and the distribution of its fauna is conveyed with 

 remarkable vividness. The sub-chapters on ' The Avifauna 

 of Norway,' Bird-life in the Siirendal, Bird-notes in the 

 Forde Valley, as well as Specific Notes on Grouse and 

 Ptarmigan, may oe specially indicated ; while Chapter xviii. 

 contains a very complete summary of Scandinavian birds, 

 their distribution, &c. Two chapters are devoted to Den- 

 mark, on which an excellent paper was contributed to our 

 pages (Ibis, 1894, pp. 339-351) by the author's much- 

 regretted brother, the late Alfred C. Chapman; there are 

 notes on Bird- and Insect- migration observed on twenty- 



