1922.] Receiithj published Ornitholngical JVorks. 359 



Mr. Beebe and his band of workers at his Tropical Research 

 Station on the Mazaruiii river, and we are pleased to sec 

 that Mr. Chubb has been able to avail himself of some of 

 the information contained in the former's ' Tropical Wild 

 Life' for the present volume. 



During the course of his work on this volume Mr. Chubb 

 has found it necessary to describe a number of new genera, 

 species, and subspecies, a list of which is given in the intro- 

 duction ; these have nearly all been previously published in 

 the Bulletin of the B. O. C. or in the 'Annals & Magazine 

 of Natural History.' We notice, however, a few here 

 described for the first time — Grallaria ret/idus rorahnoi, 

 Vireo roraima, and Pachysylvia thoracicus abariensis. 



The ten coloured plates, as well as the very numerous 

 text-figures, are all from the skilful brush of Mr. GrOnvold 

 and greatly embellish this most attractive work, and we 

 can only conclude by congratulating Mr. Chubb on the 

 completion of a most laborious and valuable work on the 

 avifauna of our only South American colony, and Mrs. 

 McConnell on the monument she has raised to the memory 

 of her husband. 



Gladstone on the Scottish Capercaillies. 



[The last of the indigenous Scottish Capercaillies. By Hugh S. 

 Gladstone. Scottish Nat. 1921, pp. 169-177 ; 2 figs.] 



As is well known, the indigenous race of the Capercaillie 

 in Scotland became extinct about 1770 and the bird was 

 reintroduced from Sweden in 1837. It has been stated by 

 Prof. Newton that no specimen of the old British race is 

 kuowti to exist ; there are a pair in the British Museum 

 which came from the Pennant collection which Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant thought might be of Scottish origin, but there a[)pcars 

 to be no positive proof. Mr. Gladstone in this paper draws 

 attention to an old mounted male example now in the 

 Hancock Museum at Newcastle-on-Tyne which he traces 

 back to the collection of Marmaduke Tunstall (1743-1790) 



