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omitted. He also wrote a letter on the preservation of the 
Kite in Wales, which was published in the Bulletin of the B.O.C. 
Vol. XIII. (1903), and has recently brought out a book on 
Bird Life throughout the Year. The following is a list of his 
contributions to the Zoologist :—1893, pp. 104, 269; 1895, 
pp. 129, 178; 221 and 249; 1896, p. 24; 1898, p. 198; 1909, 
p. 76 ; 1902, p. 1; and 1904, p. 94. 
To the list of Dr. P. L. Sclater’s papers should be added, 
“Remarks on a supposed new British Tit of the Genus Parus ” 
(Brit. Birds, I., pp. 23-24). 
The notice of Dr. R. B. Sharpe’s life omits all mention of 
the fact that he acted as President of the Fourth International 
Ornithological Congress at London in 1910, probably the 
crowning event of his life. The date of the founding of the 
British Ornithologists’ Club is given on p. 528 as 1902 instead 
of 1892. Although obituary notices of ornithologists are 
not included as a rule in this work a special interest attaches 
to that written by Dr. Sharpe on Professor Newton (Brit. 
Birds, I., pp. 33-39,) as for a time they were much estranged, 
but at the Congress a “‘rapprochement’’ took place and 
more friendly relations were established. 
The notice of H. Ecroyd Smith omits mention of a paper 
by him in the Zoologist for 1867, pp. 924-929. He also 
contributed to the Liverpool Nat. Journal for 1866. No 
reference is mace to the plates contributed by Mr. A. Thorburn 
to Mr. J. G. Millais’s Natural History of the British Surface- 
feeding Ducks (1902). Other coloured plates by the same artist 
may be found in W. H. Hudson’s British Birds (1895), and 
recently to Mr. Millais’s large work on the Diving Ducks. 
On p. 588 it is stated that “‘ At Crowley’s death in 1901, 
it was directed that the whole of his collection of eggs should 
be presented to the British Museum.” As this apparently 
refers to the Crowley collection and not to any part of it, 
it should be stated that Mr. Crowley directed that the 
Museum authorities should be allowed to select two sets of 
each species only. The rest of the collection was sold by — 
auction. 
Apparently reviews of ornithological works are omitted from — 
this work, yet it happens not infrequently that reviews contain 
much matter indispensable to the student of a local fauna, 
and we are of opinion that references to them would have 
increased the value of the work. 
Our congratulations are due to the authors on the completion 
of their arduous task, and we shall look forward with great 
interest to the appearance of the promised County Index in 
which all faunal notes will be included.—F. C. R. JouURDAIN. 
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