Recently published Ornithulogical Works. 201 



Similar accounts of the strange habits and customs of various 

 other birds in different parts of the world are found throughout 

 the volume, which is illustrated by 38 plates, and sold at the 

 very moderate charge of two shillings and sixpence. 



18, Purlda on the Great Auk, 



[The Great Auk. A Record of Sales of Birds and Eggs by Public 

 Auction in Great Britain, 1800-1910. "With Historical and Descriptive 

 Notes and 5 plates. By Thomas Parkin. Hastings : Burtield & Peunells, 

 1911. 2.S-.] 



This excellent piece of work, to which Ave liave been 

 looking forward for some time, is now issued as an Extra 

 Paper to Part vie of Vol. I. of the ' Plastings and East 

 Sussex Naturalist,' but it can be obtained either from the 

 author or Rowland Ward. Mr. Parkin has heen at infinite 

 trouble to determine the correct particulars of the speci- 

 mens of the Great Auk and its eggs Avhich have been sold at 

 Stevens^ Auction llooms and elsewhere in Britain, in each 

 case with the name of the purchasers, the price, the date of 

 sale, and so forth ; and his work will be greatly appreciated 

 by all who have to deal with this extinct bird. The plates 

 are representations of a sale at Stevens' Rooms, of Bullock's 

 ' London Museum/ of an egg in the possession of Mr. 

 Parkin himself, of another now in the Bristol Museum, and 

 of a bird and egg formerly the property of Sii W. Milner. 



19. Reed and U right on the Birds of Cayvga Lake. 



[■J'he Vertebrates of the Cayuga Lake Basin, K.Y. By Hugli J). Reed 

 and Albert H. Wright. Repr. from Pioc. Am. Phil. Soc. xlviii. No. 198 



(1909).] 



This pamphlet on the vertebrates of the largest of the 

 " Finger Lakes" near Ithaca, U.S.A., is based on records of 

 the specimens obtained. The area is described (with four 

 maps) ; the meteorology, the '' life zones " and the status 

 of the biids are fully discussed ; and a list of 257 species 

 added. The whole forms a piece of good local investiga- 

 tion, and Ave may note the occurrence of (Estrelata hcr.sitata 

 in 1893, and of the Passenger Pigeon so late as 1892. 



