170 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Hony on Wiltshire Birds. 



[Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire. By G. Btithurst Hony, M.B.O.U. 

 Wilts Archseol. & Nat. Hist. Mag., Devizes, xxxix. 1915, pp. 1-14,] 



Since the appearance of the Rev. A. C. Smith's ' Birds of 

 Wiltshire ' in 1887, many new records for the county have 

 occurred. At the same time Mr. Smith erred perhaps on 

 the lenient side in admitting a good number of species to 

 his list on what seems to be insufficient or incomplete 

 evidence. In the present paper Mr. Hony rejects the 

 Great Black Woodpecker, the Yellowshank, and one or two 

 other species from his list and adds several new ones, giving 

 a summary of the evidence relating to the occurrence of 

 many of the newer visitors. 



A complete list of the birds known to have occurred in 

 Wiltshire is given by Mr. Hony. These number 248, but 

 nine of these are unsatisfactory in Mr. Hony's opinion, 

 the correct number is therefore 239. In Smith's work, 

 which included the nine unsatisfactory records, 235 were 

 given, so that thirteen species have been added to the list 

 since 1887. 



Levick on the Adelie Penguin. 



[Natural History of the Adelie Penguin. By Staff-Surgeon G. Murray 

 Levick, E.N., in the Natural History Report of the British Antarctic 

 (' Terra Nova ') Expedition, 1910 : Zoology, vol. i. no. 2, pp. 55-84, 

 pis. i.-xxxi. London (British Museum Natural History), 1915. 4to.] 



The literature on the subject of the Adelie Penguin is 

 now becoming very extensive. Not only have Dr. Wilson, 

 Mr. Bernacchi, and Dr. Louis Gain, the zoologist of 

 Dr. Charcot's expedition, given us a good deal of information, 

 but Dr. Levick himself has already published an account of 

 his observations in popular form under the title of ' Ant- 

 arctic Penguins : a Study of their Social Habits.' We 

 welcome the present account, however, as the size of the 

 publication enables justice to be done to the magnificent 

 photographs, 31 in number, taken by the author himself : 

 they illustrate all the phases of the Penguin's life, and give 

 one a wonderful idea of its life when at the rookerv. 



