1 91 8.] Recently published Ornithological Works. 309 



Glastonbury lake-village. No additional species are re- 

 corded. 



The most interesting bird recognized among the remains 

 is the Crested Pelican (Pelecanus crispus), of which large 

 numbers of bones have been collected, and which not im- 

 probably bred there and was used as food by the inliabitants. 

 It is not known at the present time in western Europe, but 

 is now found from the lower Danube regions eastwards to 

 India. Some of the bones are figured. 



Beebe on Guiana Birds. 



[Tropical wild-life in British Guiana. Zoological contributions from 

 the Tropical Eesearch Station of the New York Zoological Society. 

 By William Beebe, Directing Curator ; G. Inness Hartley, Research 

 Associate ; and Paul G. Howes, Research-Assistant. With an Intro- 

 duction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Vol. i. pp. 1-504 ; 143 plates 

 and figures. New Yorii (New York Zoological Society), 1917. 8vo.] 



Under the aus|)ices of the New York Zoological Society, 

 Captain Beebe, M.B.O.U. (for he now holds a commission 

 in the Aviation Service of the American Army), has recently 

 establisiied a research station at Bartica in the interior of 

 British Guiana for conducting investigations into tropical 

 biology. 



The present volume, which was briefly alluded to in the 

 January number of 'The Ibis' (p. 187), contains the first 

 results obtained during a sojourn of some six months of 

 1916 at this delectable spot. Situated at the junction 

 of two magnificent rivers, the Essequibo and the Cuyuni, 

 with untouched and almost untrodden aboriginal forest 

 within a mile of the house where the station is placed, it is 

 an ideal spot for a naturalist. There is no doubt that far 

 better results in the matter of collection and observation 

 can be obtained by working from a fixed centre, and that 

 this is so is clearly proved by the present volume. 



The fii'st six chapters are introductory in character, and 

 tell us something of the history of the district and of 

 previous workers in Guiana, also of the general plan of the 

 observations carried on at the research station. 



