132 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



Oil my father's accession he started a collection of birds 

 killed in the islands, confining the collection to the rarer 

 migrants, but he was always careful to protect any species 

 already included in his collection. To ornithologists the 

 collection ia the Abbey is a most interesting one, and com- 

 prises the Greater Yellowlegs {Totanus melanoleucus) , the 

 Eskimo Curlew {Numenius borealis), the Solitary Sandpiper 

 (Totanus solitarius), and White's Thrush (Turdus aureus). 

 The Hawks are well represented, and include the Common 

 Kite and Lesser Kestrel, the Iceland and Greenland 

 Falcons, and the White-tailed Eagle. The islands lend 

 themselves naturally te visitations of various Waders, and 

 there are large tracts of sandy beaches, dunes, and fresh- 

 water marshes. 



" My father was by no means a scientific naturalist, but 

 was always a keen observer of birds and quick to detect an 

 unfamiliar flight or note, and in this he was ably supported 

 by David Smith, his keeper, who at the age of 86 knocked 

 the Yellow-browed Warbler down with his stick in a 

 bramble-bush and secured it.'' 



In medieval days Scilly was a monastic property, and in 

 1687 it was granted by the Crown to Sidney Godolphin, the 

 well-known statesman of the Restoration. It remained in 

 the Godolphin family until 1831, when Mr. Augustus 

 Smith became the lessee or Lord Proprietor. 



YIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



Beebe's Jungle Peace. 



[Jungle Peace. By William Beebe. Ilhistrated from photographs. 

 Pp. x+297. New York (Henry Holt), 1918. 8vo.] 



Under this title \Captain Beebe sends us a volume of 

 essays most of which have already appeared in the 

 ' Atlantic Monthly.' They deal with scenes and incidents 

 of his recent journeys to South America, the greater 

 number of them relating to British Guiana. The title 

 derives from the fact that Captain Beebe re- visited these 



