546' liecenili/ published Omit ho/of/ical JVorks. [Ibis, 



events in Norfolk has suffered somewhat. The county is 

 to be congratulated on having recovered the Bittern, the 

 Cormorant, and the Curlew as breeding-birds, though there 

 are still a good many which nested regularly a hundred years 

 ago which have never returned as breeding-birds ; such are 

 the Kite, Bustard, Avocet, and Black Tern. 



In addition to the satisfactory increase of the Bittern, 

 the Great Crested Grebe, Slioveler, Gad wall, and Bearded 

 Tit are all becoming more numerous — in all cases the result 

 of protection. 



Among the rare birds noted in 1918 were the Caspian 

 Tern, the Avocet, the Yellow-browed Warbler, and Bichard's 

 Pipit. Spoonbills still corne each year in small numbers to 

 Breydon Broad, chiefly in May and June, and would 

 probably nest there if allowed a chance of doing so. 



Mr. Gurney in his notes gives the Bullfinch a Ijad name 

 as most destructive to the buds and blossom of fruit-trees, 

 especially of the Black Currant, which are grown in large 

 quantities as a field-crop in parts of Norfolk. 



R. Gurney uu Nomenclature. 



[Modern Zoological Nomeuclatui-e. Ey IJube it Ciuruey, Trans. Norfolk 

 and Norwich Nat. Soc. x. 1919, pp. Ooo-.jol'.] 



In this thoughtful and well-balauced littleessay Mr. Bobert 

 Gurney criticizes somewhat severely uur modern methods of 

 nomenclature, taking as his text the divergences in practice 

 between Witherby's ' Handlist of British Birds ' and the 

 B. O. U. List; but after all, when his examination is 

 complete, he finds that most of the differences are due 

 to differences of opinion on points not affected by the rules, 

 but which must always remain a matter of individual 

 opinion — such, for instance, as to whether a particular form 

 shall be regarded as a subspecies or a full species, or again 

 as to the identification of an ancient description. 



Perhaps the best instance of the latter is the question of 

 the correct name for the Garden-Warbler. The Handlist 

 uses S. borin, undoubtedly the older name, but according to 

 the B. O U. Committee, Daubenton's figure and description 



