bS8 Recently published Orniihotoffical tVorics. [Ibis, 



and plumage-changes of the Red-backed Shrike as observed 

 on two nestlings taken from the nest and hand-reared. 

 A coloured figure of the juvenile plumage, reproduced from 

 a sketch by the author, illustrates this liote. 



Mr. A. H. Patterson contributes some observations at or 

 near Yarmouth for the year 1917, but military reasons have 

 much restricted his raml)les. A paper by Mr. Robert Guruey 

 on nomenclature is noticed separately. 



Yearbvok uf the Dutch Bird Club. 



[Club van Xederlandsclie Vogelkuiidigen. Jaarbericht, no. 8. 

 Deventer, 1918.] 



As in the past this Yearbook is edited by Baron Suouekaert 

 van Schauburg, the President of the Club, who himself con- 

 tributes several articles. The first of these consists of his 

 annual rc|)ort on events ol ornitholonical importance from 

 October 1917 to S:'[)teniber 1918. He mentions the occur- 

 rence of a good number of Slender-billed Nutcrackers in 

 October and an unusual number of Woodcock during the 

 winter, while the breeding of Red-necked Grebe is confirmed. 

 Special rarities recorded are the Lesser Grey Shrike, the 

 eastern European Buzzard Biiteu huteo ruficaudus {= B. b. 

 zimmermamice) , and the Iceland Gull. In other shorter 

 articles Baron Suouekaert discusses the races of the Cordon 

 Bleu {Ura'(jinthns ben(jalus), the exact si'.;nificance of the 

 variation of Perdix jitrdix named Tetrao damascenus by 

 Gnielin, and other matters. 



Another contribution, signed A. H., deals with the succes- 

 sion of birds noticed in the rice-fields of Java and Suuiatra 

 during the different seasons and periods of cultivation j while 

 Baion van Heeckeren describes and figures the curious egg 

 of the Kleeho Swift, Mucropteryx lonyvpomis, lying in a 

 hollow of the branch of a Soerian-tree [Cedrella). 



Reproductions of photographs of a Snipe on its nest^ 

 a Jackdaw's nest, and eggs of the Kentish Plover at the 

 Hook of Holland help to enliven a very good number of 

 this Yearbook. 



