Recent/// published Ornithological Works. 295 



do not almost invariably lay white eggs ; the Stock-Dove 

 does not always nest in hollow trees, nor the Nightingale 

 on the ground. Again, in the interesting and generally 

 accurate accounts of the Lincolnshire Mudflats, the Birds of 

 the Earne Islands, the Norfolk Broads, and the Derbyshire 

 Dales, a few misleading statements occur, such as that of 

 the Lesser Tern formerly breeding on the Fame Islands 

 (instead of the neighbouring Ross Links) ; while the Little 

 Bustard is said (p. 207), doubtless by a slip of the pen, to 

 have bred in Britain. 



Among many beautiful illustrations, we may notice the 

 vignette of the " Stork klappering " (p. 251) as an instance 

 of the great advantage of photography to ornithologists. 



42. Loudon on the Crested Larks of Turkestan. 



[Zur Kenntnisa der west-turkestanischen Reprasentanten der Gattung 

 Galerida. Von Harold Baron Loudon. Ornithol. Jahrb. xiv. pp. 171-174.] 



Baron Loudon writes on the Crested Larks of Turkestan, 

 among which he recognises three forms — Galerida magna 

 (Hume), G. cristata iwanowi, subsp. nov., and G. c. mag dee, 

 subsp. nov. He describes the characters and ranges of these 

 three birds. 



43. Nelson on new Birds from Mexico. 



[Descriptions of new Birds from Southern Mexico. By E. W. Nelson. 

 Pr. Biol. Soc. Washington, xvi p. 151 (1903).] 



The " new birds/'' all from various localities in South- 

 western Mexico, arc named Geotrygon albifacies rubula, 

 Dactylortyx thoracicus sharpei, Syrnium Occident ale lucidum, 

 Xiphocolaptes emigrans omiltemensis, Cyanolyca mi nihil is, 

 Aphelocoma yuerrerensis, Vireolanius melitophrys goldmani, 

 Geoth/i/pis chapalensis, Thryophilus sinaloa russeus, Troglo- 

 dytes brunneicollis nitidus, Henicorhina leucophrys festiva, 

 Hemiura leucogastra musica, and Sialia mexicana australis. 



44. Oberholser on the American Great Homed Owls. 



[A. Revision of the American Great Horned Owls. By Harry C. Ober- 

 holser. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxvii. pp. 177-192 (1904).] 



Mr. Oberholser adopts Mr. Stone's "revolutionary^ view 



