200 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



concluding Australian poition of the Order Psittaci. As in 

 the previous parts, the illustrations of Birds are reproduced 

 froui drawings made by the late Mr. Neville Cayley. The 

 eggs of the diffeieut species of the Order Psittaci being all 

 white, no plate is issued with this Part. 



17. Of/ilcie-Grant on the Gallery of Birds in the British 

 Museum. 



[Guide to the Gallery of Birds in the Department of Zoology, British 

 Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. With 29 Phites and 

 7 Illustrations. London, 1910. Price '2s. (id.'] 



There can be no better test of the merits of a book, and 

 of its fitness for the ()l)ject which it is intended to illustrate, 

 than the exhaustion of the first edition and the call for a 

 second. That this bappy state of affairs prevails in the 

 Bird-gallery at South Kensington is as pleasing to all 

 ornithologists ii^, no doubt, it is to ]\[r. Ogilvie-Grant himself. 

 The 'Guide Ms not only useful as a Handbook for those 

 who Avould view the contents of tlie Galleiy aright, but, 

 considering the enormous amount of information and 

 instru(;lion contained in it, and the numerous illustrations, 

 is almost a bistory of the Class of Birds. 



At any rate, nearly all the principal facts yet ascertained 

 concerning this attractive Class of Animal Life are care- 

 fully put together and explained. 



In our notice of the first edition of this excellent piece oi 

 work (see ' Ibis,' 1905, p. 4>S6), we fully described the 

 general plan of the ' Guide/ and need not now repeat what 

 has already been stated. The scco id edition is a reprint of 

 the first, revised and brought up to date by the author. 

 A new plate, reiircsenting the playing place of the Gardener 

 Bower-hird {Anibli/crnis suhaluris), has been added. This 

 extraordinary bird well merits its name. It builds a minia- 

 ture cabin with different sorts of mosses, and surrounds it 

 with a small, but perfectly kept, meadow^, which is studded 

 with brilliantly coloured flowers, fruits, and insects cai'efuily 

 selected by the architect. These objects, as they become 

 faded, are constantly replaced by the industrious gardener. 



