380 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Tbis^ 



in the last year's volume. M. J. Berlioz reviews a collection 

 of birds made by Drs. Groraier and Lepetit in Kenya Colony 

 and Uganda in 1910 and 1911 ; in some cases field and 

 taxonomic notes are added. Other papers dealing with 

 African birds are a short note by M. Menegaux himself ou 

 tlie birds of Dakar, in Senegal, and descriptions of two new 

 subspecies from Togoland from the pen of Dr. Millet- 

 Horsin — Phalacrocorax africanus menegauxi and Halcyon 

 torquatas pontyi. M. A. Labitte has some interesting 

 observations on the birds of the devastated regions of 

 France, especially in the Department of Ardennes to the 

 north of the Argonne Forest. He does not find so much 

 alteration in the avifauna of these districts as he had 

 expected. The same author contributes some notes on the 

 nesi;ing-habits of th^ Buzzard in the same region, where it 

 is fairly numerous, and states that he believes that, when 

 disturbed, the parents carry off their nestlings from the nest 

 to a place of safety some distance off. Mr. L. Coopman, 

 writing in a subsequent number, states that he has observed 

 the same habits in the case of the Long-eared Owl. From 

 Dr. A. Rochon-Duvigneaud we have an essay on the large 

 Birds-of-Prey which are met with in the gorges of the Tarn 

 on the slopes of the Cevennes ; here are to be found in fair 

 numbers Gyps fulvus, Neophron percnopterus, Aquila chry- 

 saelus, and A. belisarius. Lastly, we notice Mr. Jourdain 

 has contributed an interesting account o£ the birds of the 

 celebrated oak-forest of Mamara, in Morocco, which he 

 visited in company with Capt. Congreve in April 1920 ; and 

 M. Menegaux has published a translation of Capt. Lynes's 

 paper on the birds of the Middle Atlas, which appeared in 

 ' The Ibis ' of the previous year. 



Scottish Naturalist. 



[The Scottish Naturalist : A Magazine devoted to Zoology. Vol. for 

 1921 ; nos. 109-120] 



We regret to learn from the first number of the ' Scottish 

 Naturalist' of last year that Dr. Eagle Clarke has withdrawn 



