174 Recently published Ornithologicul Works. 



Northern Mongolia and the northern parts of Trausbaicalia. 

 He first gives a few particulars about the thirty localities 

 in which Mr. Bamberg collected and illustrates them by 

 some photographic pictures^ begiuniug at Kiachta and 

 ending at Urga. He also mentions the most cliaracteristic 

 birds of each station. The specimens are referred to about 

 75 species, of which four are provided with new names : — 

 Gurrulus glandarius hamhergi^ Saxicola oencmthe argentea, 

 Dendrocopus inajor mongolus, and Upupa epops saturata. 

 We observe that our Common Grey Flycatcher is here called 

 " Muscicapa jicedula neumanni " ! We may remark that 

 a better name for it is Muscicapa grisola, by which it has 

 been known for the past one hundred and fifty years. It 

 is probable, we admit, that the Muscicapa jicedula of 

 Linnseus's tenth edition was based on a Grey Flycatcher, 

 but it is by no means certain. Dr. Hartert is doubtful 

 on the subject (Vog. pal. Faun. i. p. 475). 



Mr. Bamberg secured a male specimen of Micrupalama 

 taczanoivskia in full breeding plumage at Bara in May, 

 1908 (c/. also ' Ibis,' 1909, p. 418, pi. vii.) . 



17. MacGillivray on the Life of William MacGillivray. 



[Life of William MacGillivray. By William MacGillivray, W.S., 

 with a Scientific Appreciation by J. Arthur Thomson. London : John 

 Murray, 1910. 8vo, pp. i-xiii, 1-222.] 



On the occasion of the erection of a monument to 

 William MacGillivray at Edinburgh and a memorial tablet 

 at Aberdeen, the author of this work prepared a short 

 sketch of his relation's life for private circulation. This has 

 now been expanded into the present volume, as no detailed 

 biogra[)hy of the great ornithologist has been written since 

 his death. At this distance of time we are apt to forget 

 the services that MacGillivray rendered to science, and 

 especially to our branch of it, not only by his careful 

 and accurate work and the instruction which lie bestowed 

 on his students, but by his researches into the true methods 

 of classification. He was the first writer in Bi"itain to 

 point out the necessity for taking into account tlic internal 



