291 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



40. Le Souef s ' List of Birds' 1 Eggs and Nests.' 



[Collection of Australian Birds' Eggs and Nests in the possession of 

 1>. Le Souef. 4to. Melbourne.] 



Mr. Le Souef sends us a copy of a list of his Collection 

 of Australian Birds' Eggs and Nests, which, we believe, 

 is one of the best in the new Commonwealth. The scientific 

 and English names are given in parallel columns; and 

 a few remarks are added, referring mostly to the publica- 

 tions in which the nests and eggs have been described. The 

 egg of the extinct Tasmanian Emu (Dromeeus diemenensis) , 

 •• taken about 1865 in N.E. Tasmania/' is a great rarity. 

 We are not aware that this name has appeared in print 

 before. 



41. Lodge's ' Pictures of Bird-life.' 



[Pictures of Bird-life in Woodland, Meadow, Mountain, and Marsh. 

 By R. B. Lodge. 4to. London : Boustield & Co., 1903. Price 27s. Qd. net.] 



In this volume Mr. Lodge gives a most pleasing account 

 of his ornithological experiences in various parts of Britain 

 and Western Europe. As might be expected from so good 

 a photographer, his three chapters on that art as practised 

 by naturalists are admirable ; and therein he strongly decries 

 indiscriminate slaughter of specimens and taking of eggs. 

 The copious illustrations are excellently clear and life-like, 

 though the eight coloured plates hardly please us so much as 

 the others. 



With regard to the letterpress, the chapters on Bird-life 

 in the Dutch Marshes, the Spanish Marisma, and the Fjords 

 and Forests of Denmark leave little to be desired ; while 

 they afford vivid pictures of those regions and their feathered 

 inhabitants, and give evidence throughout of the careful 

 nature of the author's observations. The chapter on Bird- 

 life in a suburban parish might, however, have well been 

 omitted as more suitable for tyros than for experts, the 

 information being commonplace, and several of the facts, 

 though doubtless true in individual instances, certainly not 

 of universal application. For instance : the Nuthatch is 

 not shy at all times of year ; birds which nest in holes 



