278 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



is accompanied by a plate containing coloured figures of the 

 malCj female, young male, and chick. 



57. Poynting's ' Eggs of British Birds.' 



[Eggs of British Birds. — Limicolse (Plovers, Suipes, Sandpipers, &c.). 

 By Frank Poynting. Parts I.-III. 4to. London : R. H. Porter, 1895.] 



It would be difficult to speak too highly of the beauty 

 and accuracy of the coloured illustrations in this work. We 

 have compared them carefully with the figures in the edition 

 of Hewitson which is generally known as the second, in 

 which, as Hewitson told the writer of this notice, he put 

 forth the whole of his powers of delineation, and we think 

 that Mr. Poynting^s best work quite comes up to that of the 

 great pioneer in oology. And then again, where Hewitson 

 was often only too glad to have a single specimen to figure, 

 his successor has been able to pick and choose from a large 

 series, and can sometimes give a plate with as many as a 

 dozen characteristic examj)les. It goes without saying that 

 the eggs of many species now figured were unobtainable in 

 former days. The letterpress is excellent and very well 

 selected, consisting chiefly of quotations from authorities 

 who have written from personal observation. The eggs 

 figured belong to the following species : — 



Part I. Eudromias morinellus ; Charadrius jjluvicdis, C. dominicus ; 

 Hcematopus ostraleyus ; Recurvirostra avocetta ; Himantopus 

 candidus ; Scolopax rusticola ; Tringa maculata, T. striata, 

 T. rufescens ; Bartramia longicauda ; Totanus ochropus, 

 T.fuscus. 



Part II. Cursorius gallicus ; Charadrius fulvus ; Vanelhts vulgaris ; 

 Strepsilas interiyres ; Gallinago coelestis : Macrorhamphus 

 griseus ; Limicola platyrhyncha ; Tringa alpina ; Calidris 

 arenaria ; Totanus macularius, T. calidris ; Liviosa belgica ; 

 Numenius phceopus. 



Part III. ^gialitis hiaticula, JE. curonica, ^. cantiana, ^. vocifera ; 

 Phalaropus fulicarius, P. hyporboreus ; Gallinago gallinula ; 

 Tringa fusticollis, T. minutilla ; Machetes pugnax ; Numenius 

 arquatUy N. borealis. 



