Recently published Ornithological Works. 135 



quite close to it, when it opened its Aviiigs and flew for two 

 or three yards. As it did so I saw that there was something 

 attached to one of its le^cs, and on catching it found a large 

 chameleon was fast secured to it, having its tail firmly 

 twisted two or three times round one of the Owl's legs. 

 How they had got into this position I cannot say, but I 

 fancy that the little Owl must first have attached the cha- 

 meleon, though upon detaching it I could find no wounds 

 or scratches of any kind upon it. Neither was there any- 

 thing amiss with the Owl, which, as soon as I had released 

 it, flew away and perched in a neighbouring thorn-tree." 



19. Shufeldt on a Hybrid Grouse. 



[Notes ou the Trunk Skeleton of a Hybrid Grouse. By R. W. Shu- 

 feldt. Auk, X. IX 281.] 



Dr. Sliufeldt gives us some notes on the skeleton of a 

 hybrid Grouse, apparently bred between Tympanuchus ameri- 

 canus and Fedioecetes phasianeUus campestr'is. 



20. Trimen on the Vertebrates of the Cape Colony. 



[Illustrated Of&cial Hand-book of the Cape and South Africa. Edited 

 by John Noble. London : Stanford, 1893.] 



The third chapter of this valuable hand-book to the Cape 

 Colony and adjoining lands, to which so much public 

 attention is now directed, is devoted to an account of the 

 South-African vertebrate fauna, which has been prepared 

 by IVIr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., the Curator of the South- 

 African ]\Iuseum. In such a limited space it was impossible, 

 as IMr. Trimen points out, to give more than the barest 

 outline of this enormous subject. Only eleven pages are 

 allowed for the birds, but those who wish to know more 

 about this subject have an excellent guide to refer to in 

 Sharpens new edition of Layard's ' Birds of South Africa.' 



21. Winge on Birds observed at the Danish Light-stations. 



[Fuglene ved de danska Fyr i 1892. lOde Aarsberetning om danske 

 Fugle. Ved Herluf Winge. Vidensk. Medd. uaturh. Foren. Kjbhvu. 

 1893, p. 21.] 



