514 Becently published Ornithohicjical Works. 



in the " fifties " the moral standard of exhibitions was 

 very different from what it is now. So-called ^^mproving'^ 

 birds was rife, and the honest exhibitor had no chance. 

 Tegetmeier set his face against all such practices, and after 

 many a hard figlit won the day, so that now the whole 

 moral tone of shows has vastly improved. 



The work is illustrated with reproductions of several 

 portraits of Tegetmeier and also of a number of sketclies 

 and cartoons mostly taken from the Savage Club Papers, 

 of which club he was an original member. 



Robinson and Kloss on the Birds of Kedah Peak. 



[The Natural History of Kedah Peak. By H. C. Robinson and C. 

 Bodea Kloss. J. Fed. Malay States Mus., Singapore, vol. vi. 1916, 

 pp. 219-244.] 



Dominating the roadstead of Penang and isolated from 

 all the other mountains of the Malay Peninsula, the Kedah 

 Peak attains a height of 3976 feet. As very little zoological 

 collecting had ever been done on the mountain, and its 

 isolated position seemed to offer chances of interesting results, 

 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss recently made, with the help of 

 three trained Dyak collectors, a thorough search of the moun- 

 tain, but with rather disappointing results, as it was found 

 to be singularly barren of bird-life both as regards species 

 and individuals. A list of the 36 species obtained includes 

 Prionochilus thoracicus, a rare species which has but seldom 

 been obtained in the Malay Peninsula. 



Thayer and Bangs on the Birds of Saghalien, and on a new 

 Song-Sjmrroiv. 



[A Collection of Birds from Saghalien Island. By John E. Thayer 

 and Oatram Bangs. Auk, xxxiii. 1916, pp. 43-48. 



A new Soug-Sparrow from Nova Scotia. Idd. Proc. New England 

 Zoological Club, v. 1914, pp. 67-68.] 



The birds of Saghalien Island, the southern half of which 

 now belongs to Japan, while the northern half still remains 

 Russian, have been carefully studied by Lonnberg (J. Coll. 

 Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, xxiii. 1908, art. no. 14), and the 



