220 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



perhaps the first work that has appeared from the pen of a man 

 who combines both characters^ and is able to give the scientific 

 name of an animal he has happened to kill. The best of the 

 author's ornithological observations, however, have before ap- 

 peared in print, having been communicated by him to the Zoo- 

 logical ' Proceedings ' for 1858 (pp. 466-512), since which time, 

 as many of our readers know, he has been knocking about in 

 various parts of the world, and has enrolled his name among 

 those of our contributors (Ibis, 1864, pp. 1-36), where 'we 

 should be glad to see it again; for a naturalist so observant, and 

 with such opportunities as Mr. Adams has enjoyed, must have 

 always plenty to say for himself. 



Mrs. Hugh Blackburn has published a second and concluding 

 part of her 'Birds drawn from Nature,' which now forms an 

 inviting and handsome volume^. The first part was noticed 

 at some length in this Journal a few years ago (Ibis, 1862, 

 pp. 290-294) ; the second is like unto it, and contains some 

 very pretty and characteristic sketches. Among them we may 

 especially mention for its excellence that of the young Hooded 

 Crow, no. xxxiv. A very exciting scene is well represented in 

 no. xxvii., the group of sea-birds, wherein the different idiosyn- 

 crasies of Tern, Gull, and Auk are happily and truthfully ren- 

 dered. Other plates are not so successful ; in a good many the 

 plumage is made to look like fur or wool ; but as the artist, in 

 all cases, has " drawn from nature," the general result is tolerably 

 satisfactory. 



2. French. 



The generosity of M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards has furnished 

 us with ten more livrnisons of his magnificent workf since we 

 last noticed it (Ibis, 1867, pp. 242, 243). These contain 

 twenty-seven sheets of letterpress and forty-three plates, the 

 latter, without exception, most beautifully executed. The plan 



* Birds drawn from Nature. By Mrs. Hugh Blackburn. Glasgow : 

 1868. Folio. 



t Reclierclies anatomiques et pal^ontologiques pour servir a I'histoire 

 desOiseaux Fossiles de la France. Par Alphonse Milne-Edwards. Li- 

 vraisons 4-13. Paris : 1867. 4to. 



