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out behind them (see J. f. O. 1889, pp. 195, 311). Recently 

 he has \\itnessed the same feat performed by the Black Kite 

 on the Rhine, by the New-World Vultures in Venezuela, 

 and by Pohjborus cherhvay in Curacao. Herr Ziemer has 

 noticed the same habit among the Raptors in Pomerania. 

 Mr. Hartert is now convinced that all Birds of Prey carry their 

 legs behind, except when they have hold of their prey. " Is 

 this correct ? " we ask the observant members of the B.O.C. 



81. Hudso7i on Lost British Birds. 



[Society for the Protection of Birds. — No. 14. Lost British ]Jirds. By 

 W.H.Hudson. With 15 drawings by A. D. McCormick. 8vo. London. 

 1894.] 



" Lost British Birds/' according to Mr. Hudson, are 

 " those which were once summer residents and breeders or 

 inhabitants all the year round of some part of Great Britain, 

 but which no longer breed in this country, and visit our 

 shores only as rare stragglers." Mr. Hudson wishes to 

 show us clearly what we have lost, and to urge upon us the 

 necessity of taking the greatest care that we lose no more. 

 The saddest feature in the case, he says, is that " invariably 

 the finest species are the first doomed." Thirteen examples 

 of our lost birds are selected, and the melancholy details of 

 their former abundance and present scarcity are concisely 

 set forth. Each species is illustrated by a nicely drawn 

 etching. Of these the Capercaillie has been fortunately 

 reintroducedj so it should hardly have been placed in the 

 category of " lost birds," and we have some doubts as to the 

 correctness of including the "Red Night-Reeler" {Locustella 

 luscinioides) . Is it certain that this species \\ as ever abundant ? 

 Mr. Hudson admits that " at the best of times it was rather 

 a rare bird," and dates its extinction from 1849, when a 

 ''lively scramble" for the bird and its eggs took place. 



82. Jouy on Birds from Central Mexico. 



[Notes on Birds of Central Mexico, with Descriptions of Forms 

 believed to be new. By P. L. Jouy. Proc. U.S. Nat. Miis. xvi. p. 771.] 



Mr. Jouy, a well-known American naturalist and collector 



