I919] Recent/ 1/ published Ornithological Works. 779 



exercises a good deal of reticence iii exact locality and other 

 matters. 



0£ illustrated articles we have a further instalment of 

 Mr. J. H. Owen's beautiful photographs of the Sparrow- 

 Hawk and its nest and young, accompanied by some good 

 field observations ; also some notes on the nidification of 

 the Bullfinch by Miss F. Pitt, illustrated by three repro- 

 ductions of her excellent photographs. 



Of articles connected with the various battle fronts, there 

 are tliose of Surgeon J. M. Harrison, R.N., on Macedonia; 

 of Miss Haviland on autumn migration near Odessa ; of 

 Mr. E. A. Wallis on birds observed in the Yonne depart- 

 ment in Fiance, where he specially comments on the 

 abundance of small birds such as Warblers but the com- 

 parative rarity of Thrushes and Blackbirds, while the 

 Little Bustard was found to be surprisingly tame and 

 approachable. 



There are also articles by Capt. A. de C. Sowerby on the 

 Birds of the Battlefields, and by Capt. W. S. Medlicott on 

 those of the western front of the Pas de Calais department. 

 Finally, we have the observations of Mr. Witherby himself 

 in the neighbourhood of Dunkerque — a somewhat dis- 

 appointing locality, though the Little Ringed and Kentish 

 Plovers were both found nesting on the same ground close 

 to the town. 



Of marked-bird recoveries the most interesting are the 

 following : — Wigeon marked Alnwick Aug, 1915, reported 

 Denmark autumn 1917 ; Lapwing marked Warwickshire 

 June 1911, reported S. Spain Jan. 1918 ; Lesser Black- 

 backed Gull marked Westmoreland June 1913, reported 

 Portugal Jan. 1918. 



Canadian Field-Naturalist. 



[The Canadian Field-Naturaiisl. Published by the Ottawa Field- 

 Naturalists' Club. Vol. xxxiii.no. 1. April 1919.] 



We welcome the first number of an old journal under a 

 new name. The 'Ottawa Naturalist' first appeared in 1884 

 and had reached its thirty-second volume. The name has 



