208 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



letterpress is quite good, hut does not profess to add to 

 our knowledge of these matters. Mr. Green's illustrations, 

 however, bring it more into the category of a gift-book. 



The eight plates in colour are very good representations 

 of the birds, and are most artistically drawn and well- 

 reproHuced. We specially commend the Goldfinches which 

 form the frontispiece. In addition to the plates, every 

 page contains admirable end- and corner-pieces in black 

 and white showing the characteristic attitudes of the birds 

 and often of their young. Tbe work would be most suitable 

 as a gift-book to boys or girls who are commencing to take 

 an interest in bird-life, and from that point of view we can 

 thoroughly recommend it. 



Journ.fUr Ornithologie. 



[.Tourual fiir Ornitliologie. 69 Jalirgnng, 1921. Heft:, i.-iv.] 



The four numbers of the Journal fiir Ornitliologie make 

 n[) a stout volume of 580 p.iges and contain a number of 

 articles of considerable interest, though the bulk of them 

 perhaps deal with German or, at any rate, European birds. 

 The first number opens with the annual report of the Bird- 

 watching Station at Rossitten in East Prussia for 1919 by 

 the Director, Dr. J. Thienemanii. During the year bird- 

 marking does not seem to have been very active ; only 115 

 birds were ringed, 39 of which were Black-backed Gulls and 

 50 llobins. Some 96 marked birds representing 36 species 

 Avere recaptured, and it is noticeable how often those which 

 were taken at great distances away were reported from 

 Portugal. 



African birds are dealt with by Dr. Reichenow, who 

 describes several new races of birds from the interior 

 steppe districts of ('ameroon collected by Tessman in 1914-, 

 and criticises some of Mr. Claude Grant's revisions and 

 conclusions made in his ' Ibis ' paper in 1915. He also 

 discusses the propriety of calling the Steppe Buzzard 

 Buteo vulpinus, and is replied to by Dr. Stresemann and 

 Count Zedlitz. From the last named is a long article 



