370 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



and S. P. Baldwin some remarks on bird-banding; while a 

 portrait and a sympathetic memoir by Mr. T. S. Palmier 

 commemorates the services of the late William Dutcher to 

 the cause of bird-conservation in the United States. 



Avicultwal Magazine. 



[The Avicultural Magazine, being the Journal of the A.\icultural 

 Society for the study of Foreign and British Birds in freedom and 

 captivity. Third Series. Vol. xi. 1920 and Vol. xii. 1921.] 



It is some time since the Avicultural Magazine was 

 noticed in these pages^ and vie have now two complete 

 volumes before us. Dr. llerishaw, the editor, resigned in 

 August 1920, and his place has since been taken by 

 Messrs. Pocock and Seth-Smith. 



In the 1920 volume is an interesting article by Mr. 

 St. Quintin on his Manchurian ('ranes, in which he 

 suggests that a patch of dull reddish skin between the eye 

 and the angle of the mouth, present in the male and absent 

 in the female, probably constitutes a good sexual distinction. 

 Other avicultural articles are by Mr. F. J. Hunter on the 

 Scottish Zoological Park, by Mr. Pocock, Mr. Shore Baily, 

 and Mr. Herbert Astley. Mr. Philip Gosse concludes his 

 notes on the birds of the Balearic Islands, and Mr. Hopkinson 

 writes on Gambian Rollers. Among the illustrations is a 

 beautiful drawing of Lesson's Amazon by Mrs. Cook, and 

 a coloured plate of a remarkable albino Bulbul, probably 

 Molpastes hcemorrlious. We regret to notice the deaths of 

 Miss R. Alderson and Dr. Lovell Keays, both enthusiastic 

 aviculturists and valuable members of the Society. 



In the 1921 volume Mr. St. Quintin writes on his 

 White Asiatic Cranes and their need for animal or insect 

 food, and there are many other avicultural articles from 

 Mr. Amsler, Capt. Rattigan, Mr. Herbert Astley, Mr. Shore 

 Baily, and Mr. Delacour; while Lord Tavistock continues 

 his experiments of breeding exotic birds at liberty — not very 

 successful as a rule, as in the case of the Passerine Parrotlet 

 Avliich may perhaps be a free translation of Psittacula 



