140 Recently publuhed Ornitholoyicul IVurks. 



and concluding portion of Dr. Dubois^ large and com- 

 pendious work : the first volume of which was reviewed in 

 ' The Ibis ' for 1888. The systematic arrangement continues 

 with the Pigeons, the Gallinaceous birds (inclusive of the 

 Sand-Grouse), the Bustards, Plovers, Sandpipers, and Rails; 

 then comes the Crane, followed by the Herons, Storks, &c. ; 

 next, the Anatidse ; then the Pelecanidse ; succeeded by the 

 Laridse, the Petrels, the Auks, Divers, and Grebes. This is, of 

 course, very old-fashioned. We are surprised to see that in 

 the notice of the earlier irruptions of SyiThaptes paradoxus 

 no mention is made of its occurrences in England and in the 

 south-east of France in 1859. From the list of countries in 

 which Tetrao tetrix is found, Switzerland is accidentally 

 omitted ; but we do not wish to search for slips in a work of 

 such magnitude. In its 736 pages there is an enormous 

 amount of valuable information, and the whole book is a 

 monument of the author's research ; while the coloured 

 maps, illustrating the geographical distribution of each 

 species during the breeding-season and during the winter, 

 show signs of great pains having been taken. The species 

 recorded for Belgium in the body of the work are 318 in 

 number; to which are added in the Appendix Nisaetus 

 bonelli, Cypselus melha, Parus caruleus var. pleskii, Melano- 

 corypha yeltoniensis, and Cursorius (/alliens : raising the 

 total to 323 species and subspecies. We congratulate 

 Dr. Dubois upon the completion of this section of his great 

 work on the Belgian Fauna. 



8. Dwight on the Ipswich Sparrow. 



[The Ipswich Sparrow {Ammodramus princeps^ Maynard) and its 

 Summer Home. By Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M.D. Memoirs of the 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club. No. ii. 4to. Cambridge, Mass., 1895.] 



Discovered among the sand-hills of Ipswich, Massachu- 

 setts, in 1868, no clue was obtained to the nesting-place of 

 this species until 1884, when an example of the bird was 

 obtained on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Dr. Dwight visited 

 that desolate spot in 1894, obtained the eggs, and has 



