Recently published Ornithological Works. 267 



XXIV. — Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 145.] 



36. Adamson's ' Illustrations of Birds.' 



[Some more Illustrations of Wild Birds, showing their Natural Habits, 

 by C. M. Adamson. 4to. London : Gurney & Jackson : 1887.] 



This is, if we rightly remember, the third of the series of 

 sketches made by the author to illustrate his recollections 

 and experiences of the wild birds among which so much of 

 his time has been spent. Of course they are unequal in 

 merit, but many of them are very spirited, and we admire 

 the way in which, like another amateur artist and mutual 

 friend in the north country, Mr. Adamson never shrinks 

 from attempting to reproduce upon paper attitudes which 

 are always difficult and sometimes almost impossible to be 

 rendered. To the critic who might say that the actions 

 themselves are unnatural and impossible, we would reply that 

 we have ourselves seen so many of them, that we believe in 

 the substantial accuracy of the rest. 



37. 'The Auk.' 



[' The Auk,' A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. IV. No. 4, 

 October 1887 ; Vol. V. No. 1, January 1888.] 



In the October Part, Mr. W. E. D. Scott has a third and 

 concluding paper on the bird-rookeries of Southern Florida 

 and their destruction by the dealers in plumes. We observe 

 that our previous remarks on the subject (Ibis, 1887, p. 457) 

 have attracted favourable notice in the ladies'* newspaper, 

 * The Queen ' ; but, for the reasons then expressed, we have 

 small hope of any beneficial result. Mr. W. Lloyd's notes 

 on 253 species of birds found in Western Texas are con- 

 cluded. Mr. E. W. Blake, jun., gives an account of 27 

 species observed in summer on the island of Santa Cruz, the 

 second in size of the Santa Barbara group, off Lower Cali- 

 fornia. Mr. H. K. Coale describes Junco hgemalis shufeldti, 

 subsp. n., as distinguished from /. h. oregonus, under the 

 '' inestimable blessing " — according to Mr. Seebohm — of 



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