Recently published Ornithological Works. 375 



tliirty-six Lithographic Illustrations from pen-and-ink sketches of Wild 

 Birds. By Charles Murray Adamson. 4to. Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 



1882.] 



Mr. Adamson's second Book of Scraps will interest the 

 many lovers of our native birds ; for his drawings are evidently 

 the product of observation from life, and though a little 

 rough, are true to nature. Mr. -Adamson^s subjects are 

 mostly taken from the sea-shore, with the inhabitants of 

 which he is manifestly very familiar. We do not much like 

 his Partridges ; but some of his sea-birds are very well 

 sketched. 



78. Aplin on the Birds of the Banbury District. 



[A List of the Birds of the Banbury District. By F. C. Aplin, Rev. 

 B. D'O. Aplin, and Oliver V. Aplin. Published under the auspices of the 

 Banburyshire Natural History Society. 8vo. Banbury : 1882.] 



We are always glad to see local lists, as extending our know- 

 ledge of distribution and creating general interest in bird- 

 life. Messrs. Aplin gives us short notes on 180 species which 

 have been found in the district around Banbury. Amongst 

 them is the Alpine Chough [Pyrrhocorax alpinus), of which 

 an example killed in Broughton Park in April 1881 ^^ showed 

 no signs of confinement "^. 



79. Belding on Birds from Western Lower California. 



[Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made at various points along the 

 Western Coast of Lower California, north of Cape St. Eugenie. By L, 

 Belding. (Edited by R. Ridgway.) Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1882, p. 527.] 



Lists are given (with notes) of the species met with at 

 four points. Mr. Bidgway tells us that the most important 

 result of Mr. Belding's explorations is the discovery that as 

 far south as Cerros Island (lat. 28° N.) the bird-fauna pre- 

 sents no differences from that of Southern California in the 

 vicinity of San Diego. A single specimen of Hcematopus 

 palliatus, obtained May 17th on the Coronados Islands, is 



* Cf. ' Zoologist,' 1881, p. 242, wliere the occurrence was originally 

 recorded. 



