614 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



are steadily improving^ and that the " coUecting-instiact " 

 which is so largely developed in some boys should on no 

 account be suppressed. More excellent advice on the sub- 

 ject than that contained in the present address could not 

 possibly be put together in a few words. 



95. Fulcher on British Birds. 



[Birds of Our Islands. By F. A. Fulclier. Loudon : Andrew Melrose. 

 8vo.] 



As this book has been sent to us, we notice it, but we do 

 so with regret, for it contains more errors than are usual 

 even in '^ popular ^^ works. Some of the illustrations by 

 Nops are good, but they are wrongly named : the bird called 

 " White-tailed Eagle " (p. 236) is a Golden Eagle, and the 

 " Merlin and its Prey '^ (p. 240) represents a Peregrine on a 

 Mallard. The Merlin -has been credited with many won- 

 derful feats, but this excels them all. So far as the author^s 

 experience goes, the letterpress is tolerable, but there is 

 much compilation and not good of its kind. 



96-99. Hartert's recent Contributions to Ornithology. 



[96. On some Necessary and some Desirable Changes of Names lately 

 used in connection with Philippine Birds. Novitates Zoologicse, iv. 

 p. 11, 1897. 



97. Notes on Palaearctic Birds and Allied Forms. Op. cit. p. 131. 



98. Mr. William Doherty's Bird-collections from Celebes. Op. cit. 

 p. 153. 



99. Descriptions of seven new Species of Birds and one new Sub- 

 Bpecies from Flores, and of one new Subspecies from Djampea, aU 

 collected by Mr. William Everett. Op. cit. p. 170.] 



In No. 96 Mr. Hartert points out that Cinnyris excellens, 

 Gra,nt = ^thopyga flagrans, Oust.; that Artamides minda- 

 nensis, Steere = Gt'aucalus kochi, Kutter; and makes further 

 remarks on the synonymy and status of five species of 

 Philippine birds. 



In No. 97 Mr. Hartert treats of the birds of the genera 

 Nucifraga, Certhia, Ainmomanes, and Galerida. In Nuci- 

 fraga he now recognizes 4 subspecies of N. caryocatactes — 



