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whole. A preface of 153 pages contains a general discussion 

 of the whole question, and concludes with a list of the many 

 friends and correspondents who have favoured the author 

 with advice and with the loan of specimens. An alphabetical 

 index of memoirs and articles relating to hybridism in birds 

 is given at the end of the work, and a large number of new 

 additions to the knowledge of the subject which have occurred 

 during the progress of the work are given in an Appendix. 

 M. Suchetet's volume is indispensable to all interested in 

 the question of hybridism in birds, and makes an excellent 

 basis for future investigations. 



115. Winge on Birds of the Danish Lighthouses, 1896. 



[Fuglene ved de danske Fyr i 1896. 14de Aarsberetuing om daiiske 

 Fugle. Ved Herluf Winge. Vid. Meddel. fra d. naturli. i Kbhn. 1897, 

 p. 237.] 



Mr. Wingers annual report on the birds met w'itli at the 

 Danish Lighthouses has appeared with its usual exactness 

 and regularity *. In 1896 the Zoological Museum of Copen- 

 hagen received from 35 of the Lighthouses 1048 birds, 

 which were I'eferred on examination to 65 species. Of these, 

 four [Falco tinnunculas, Surnia funerea, Phylloscopus super- 

 ciliosus, and Daulias philomela) were new to the Lighthouse 

 list. We notice that the three species which occurred in the 

 greatest numbers were Erithacus rubecula (212 specimens), 

 Alauda arvensis (197), and Tardus musicus (185). 



XljSfn.— Obituary. 



Charles Bygrave Wharton, whose death we mentioned in 

 our last number, was the second son of the late Rev. H. J. 

 Wharton, Vicar of Mitcham, Surrey, and elder brother of 

 the late H. T. Wharton (see 'Ibis/ 1896, p. 159). In early 

 life he took an active interest in bird-life, and during 

 a residence in New Zealand, M^here he took part in the 

 campaign against the Maoris in 1868, he made, though he 

 never published, many notes on ornithology. From Sep- 

 tember 1874 to May 1875 he lived in Corsica, and on his 



* For last notice, see ' Ibis,' 1897, p. 137.— Edd. 



