140 Recently published Ornithological JForks. [Ibisj 



Bonaventura Island, as they seem to suffer a good deal from 

 wanton persecution at the hands of irresponsible gunners 

 and others. Mr. Taverner informs us that notwithstanding 

 the exertions of many people interested in protection, the 

 local feeling is very strong against any legislative action 

 and so far has prevented steps being taken by the Conser- 

 vation Commission to reserve this spot as a perpetual 

 bird-reserve under the control of the Provincial or Dominion 

 authorities. We hope the local " conservativeness/' as 

 Mr. Taverner calls it, will soon be overcome. The article 

 is illustrated by some good photographs well reproduced. 



The second paper forms a supplement to one published in 

 the same journal in 1912 by Mr. J. H. Riley on the birds 

 of Jasper Park and the neighbourhood. Thirty additional 

 species are noted, in the present paper, bringing up the total 

 number observed or obtained to 108. 



Jasper Park is a Government Reserve in the Canadian 

 Rocky MountainSj a good deal to the north of where the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway crosses the range, and is reached 

 from the new transcontinental line of the Grand Trunk 

 Railway. 



Van Oort on the Birds of Holland. 



[Ornithologia Neerlandica, De Vogels van Nederland, door Dr. E. D, 

 van Oort. Parts I & 2 ; pp. 1-24, pis. 1-20. 'S Gravenhage (Martinua 

 Nijlioff). [1918.] 4to.] 



Our foreign member, Dr. van Oort, Director of the Leyden 

 Museum, has sent us the first two numbers of his new book 

 on the birds of Holland. No general work on this subject 

 has been published since the time of his predecessor at 

 Leyd.en, Professor Schlegel, who in 1858 published his 

 " De Vogels van Nederlands." 



Dr. van Oort's book is planned on a sumptuous scale and 

 will be issued in 40 parts, each containing 10 plates and 

 about 12 pages of text, so that when completed it will have 

 about 400 plates. The price of each part is 12*50 guilders, 

 about £\, so that the subscription for the whole work will 

 amount to about £40, but publication will be spread over 

 about eight years. 



