Recently published Ornithuluyicul Works. 283 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII. 



Eggs of 



Figs. 1, 3. Chimarrhornis leucocephalus, p. 281. 



,, 2. Phasianus scintilla ns, p. 282. 



„ 4, 5. Pycnonotus leucotis, p. 281. 



„ 6, 8. Hypsipetes amaurotis, p. 282. 



„ 7. Falco altaicus, p. 282. 



XXII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 163.] 



28. Anderson and Grinnell on the birds of N.W. California. 



[Birds of the Siskiyou Mountains, California : a Problem in Distribu- 

 tion. By Malcolm P. Anderson and Joseph Grinnell. Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philad. 1903. 15 pp.] 



After a preliminary description of the district, which 

 occupies the north-western corner of Siskiyou county close 

 to the Oregon boundary, a list of the species of birds, as 

 determined by Mr. Grinnell, is given, with field-notes by 

 Mr. Anderson. In the " summary " it is stated that the 

 results shew that the Siskiyou mountains are evidently " on 

 the narrow line of mergence between the humid coast-Fauna 

 and the arid Sierran -Fauna. Representative species of these 

 two areas occur in about equal numbers." 



29. ' Aquila' for 1903. 



[Aquila. A Magyar Ornithologiai Kozpont Folyoirata. Periodical of 

 Ornithology. Journal pour Omithologie. Zeitschrift fiir Oraithologie. 

 Redact. Otto Herman. Jahrg. X. 1903. Budapest.] 



The tenth annual volume of ' Aquila/ the organ of the 

 " Officium Hungaricum Ornithologicum," has made its 

 appearance in good time, and we have to thank our kind 

 friends at Budapest for an early copy. It is printed, as 

 usual, in parallel columns of Magyar and German, and in 

 excellent type, so that there is no difficulty in understanding 

 its contents. Herr Otto Herman's resume of the ten years' 

 work of the Hungarian Ornithological " Centrale " deserves 

 careful study, as does the same writer's full article on the 



