662 Recently published Ornithological WorJcs. 



on the birds o£ Lemnos as observed by him when taking 

 part with his regiment in the Gallipoli Expedition last year. 

 Other faunal lists are by M. A. Engl on birds collected by 

 him during two journeys to British India ; MM. H. and 

 A. Vaucher on the b^rds of Morocco, from Tangier to 

 Mogador ; M. J. Loranchet on the birds of Kerguelen, 

 where observations were made on twenty ont of the twenty- 

 one birds recorded breeding there ; and by M. P. Bede on 

 the birds of Sfax in Tunisia. 



Faunal papers relating to France include one by M. Corsi- 

 mault on the singing birds of Vendome, with musical scores 

 of their songs ; by M. J. I'Hcrmitte on the birds of Provence ; 

 and by the Comte de Tristan on birds observed at the Belgian 

 front in the Nieuport Dunes. It appears that the war and 

 the noise of the guns have had but little effect on bird-life. 



M. Menegaux has recently received from Merauke, in 

 southern New Guinea, a curious Bird-of-Paradise which 

 combines the characters of Paradisea raggiana and P. nov<R- 

 gmne(B in about equal proportions, and whicii he believes 

 must be a natural hybrid. There are somewhat similar 

 examples from the same neighbourhood in the Tring 

 Museum. 



The '' croule '^ of the Snipe is discussed by M. de la Fnye. 

 This is a chasing and circling flight of both sexes, which 

 takes place at dusk during the spring months and is pro- 

 bably connected with courtship. It appears to correspond 

 to what is known in England as the "drumming" of Snipe, 

 though the curious sounds made are not mentioned. Another 

 more extensive paper by the same author deals at length 

 with the Common, Double, and Jack Snipes and their 

 migrations, the lines of which are plotted on a map of 

 Europe. 



In a short note M. Chapal confirms some previous records 

 of the fact that the liock-Martin {Riparia rupestris) winters 

 in some of the sheltered ravines of the mountains of the 

 Dept. Gard in the south of France ; and, finally, M. L. 

 Ternier writes at length on the economics of the Starling, 

 a bird protected by law in France, and finds that it does an 



