Recently published Ornitholocjical IVorks. 147 



revised edition of 'The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar/ 

 which we ought to have noticed before^ as it was published 

 early last year, but it has been inadvertently passed over. 

 The new edition is larger in size, printed in better text, 

 and in every way a handsomer book than the former one. 

 It is, moreover, illustrated by some beautiful full-page plates 

 of birds drawn by Thorburn, and taken from living specimens 

 in Lord Lilford's aviaries, which illustrate the following 

 species of birds — the Bearded Vulture, the Blue-winged 

 Magpie, the Black Vulture, the Golden Eagle, the White- 

 shouldered Eagle, the Booted Eagle, the Mediterranean Pere- 

 grine, and the Andalucian Bush-Quail. There are besides 

 some excellent lithographs of various sporting and birds'- 

 nesting scenes, executed by Smit, and a quantity of 

 illustrations introduced into the text, mostly from jilioto- 

 graplis taken by Major W. Verner. Col. Irby is one of 

 our best authorities on the birds of the two districts comprised 

 in the present volume, so that we need hardly say that the 

 letterpress is in every respect >ip to the mark. It is, in fact, 

 a pleasure to open a book so well got up, so excellently 

 illustrated, and so thoroughly '^ up to date.'^ We have no 

 doubt that it will attain a large circulation, and trust that 

 before another 20 years are passed a third edition will be 

 called for. 



20. Jentink on the Birds of Holland. 



[Catalogue syst(5iuatique de la Collection de feu Mr. J. P. Van Wicke- 

 Toort Cronuneliu. Par F. A. Jentink. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Pays-Bas, 

 tome xiv. (1894).] 



In 1892 (Ibis, 1892, p. 352) we recorded the death of 

 John Peter van Wickevoort Crommelin, of Haarlem, and 

 announced that he had bequeathed his unrivalled collection of 

 the birds of Holland to the Leyden Museum. The 11th 

 volume of the work al)ove cited is devoted by Dr. Jentink to 

 a catalogue of this collection. There are 3(J6 species included 

 in the list ; every specimen of each species, with its date and 

 locality, being separately indicated. This is a very useful 

 piece of work to tlie student of European ornithology. 



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