380 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



]\Irs. Stanley Flower pleads for better surroundings for 

 cnge-birds, Mrs. Gregory writes on Pheasants and the Jay, 

 and G. A. M. furnishes notes of a bird-keeper in Liguria. 



Bat perhaps we ought to consider as the chief asset in 

 tliese numbers the couimenceraent of a series of articles on 

 " Practical Bird-keeping." The first, by Dr. Butler, is on 

 the "Culture of Finches"; the second, by Mr. W. E, 

 Teschemaker, on " The British Warblers.^' Such articles by 

 Avell-known experts in the art will be of great interest and 

 advantage to the avicultural public. 



32. Beethaui on the Spoonbill, White Stork, Common and 

 Purple Herons. 



[The Home-Life of the Spoonbill, the Stork, and some Heron?. 

 By Bentley Beetham. London : Witherby & Co., 1910. 8vo, pp. 1-17, 

 ;32 pis.] 



This book is uniform with Mr, Macpherson's ' Home Life 

 of a Golden Eagle' (' Ibis,' 1910, p. 207) and similarly illus- 

 trated. The species treated in it have been more often 

 watched at their breeding-quarters than the Eagle, and 

 therefore less that is new can be brought forward, but 

 ]Mr. Beetham has studied the birds with tlie greatest care, 

 and has furnished us with a valuable summary of tlieir 

 habits, accompanied by excellent photographic reproductions 

 of the nests, young, and parent birds under various circum- 

 stances. The curvature of the mandibles of the Spoonbill, 

 and its method of regurgitating food for the young are points 

 upon which the aixthor lays considerable stress, while he 

 shews that young Storks, on the contrary, are fed with 

 disgorged substances. A small tent was used to conceal the 

 camera, as is generally found necessary in such work. 



33. British Museum Collectors' Instructions. 



[British Museum (Natural History). Instructions for Collectors. 

 No. 2. Birds. 4th Ed., lOOS.] 



This useful little pamphlet gives instructions for skinning 

 birds, the instruments required, and the method of deter- 

 mining the sex. It would have been still more useful if the 

 collectors had been urged to ])rocure specimens in all stages 



