388 Recently published Oritithulogical Works. 



We can cordially recommend tlii.s book to the attention of 

 tlioj^e wlio love birds^ and are anxious to encourage them in 

 their gardens and parks. 



4i. Howard on the Warblers. 



[The British Warblers. A History with Prohlems of their Lives. By 

 11. Eliot Howard. Part o. London, 1910. 8vo. R. 11. Porter.] 



We have now before us another part of Mr, Howard^s 

 monograph on the Warblers, once more tilled with beautiful 

 plates and uncoloured photogravures {cf. ' Ibis,' 1910, p. 363). 

 The letterpress is almost entirely devoted to the Reed- 

 Warbler, of which a full and exact account is given from the 

 time it arrives upon our shores until its departure, with many 

 interesting notes upon its breeding-habits, nesting-places, 

 and the position of the nest. Its migration is also considered, 

 and, as usual, the author enters into a discussion of the 

 reasons for the various habits, and is not content merely to 

 give the facts^ so that we have many pages of most interesting 

 matter. The only other species given in this part is 

 Ilypoluis polyglotta, but the illustrations are of the Great 

 Reed-Warbler and the Aquatic Warbler, as well as of the two 

 species mentioned, and maps are furnis^hed of the geographical 

 distribution of the Reed-, ]\Iarsh-, and Great Reed- Warblers. 



45. Lines Bey on the Birds of Egypt. 



"Dr. W. Inues Bey : Avifaune de I'Egypte. 1* Parlie. L Turdidie, 

 Timeliidie, et Muscicapidse. Cairo, 1910.] 



It is quite true that, as Dr. Innes Bey states, Shelley^s 

 ' Birds of Egypt ' is out of print, and that it was puldislied 

 nearly 40 yet:rs ago, but we are not sure that the ' Avifaune 

 de I'Egypte,' if completed in the style of the first part, which 

 is now before us, is likely to supply the void thus caused. 

 Dr. Innes Bey is, we believe, a resident in Egypt, and s-hould 

 surely have some knowledge of the liabits and localities of its 

 birds from his own personal observation before he begins to 

 write on them. If this is so, he has not treated the readers 

 of his pages with much of it, nor does he even take notice 

 of the information on the subject supplied by others. 

 Under the head of each species we find a long French 

 description, a few synonyms, not always correctly quoted, 



