Recently published Ornitholoylcal IVurks. 5.")! 



clianj^rs of pliimaf;^e in the Fulmar, which hitlicrto liave 

 l)ecii little known and certainly inadequately described. 



80. Win Soitiereu's Studies of East- African Bird-life. 



[Studies of Bird-life in Uganda. By R. A. L. Van Someren, M.D., 

 D.l'ii., .Ar.B.O.U., and V. (I. L. Van Someren, L.D.S., R.C.S.Ed. 

 J.onddn : .John Bale, Sons and Danielson, 1911, 2o plates.] 



This is a series of 25 photographic plates taken ]jy the 

 authors in Uganda, and illustrating various scenes of 

 Bird-life in that country. Each plate has an accompanying 

 page of letter[)rcss. AVe liave had many lists of the liirds 

 of British East Africa and Uganda, but this we believe is 

 the first illustrated work on the subject. 



The plates are all good, and some of them may be j)ro- 

 nounced excellent. 



It may be said that more interesting and characteristic 

 species might have been selected. This is partly true, as we 

 can see Egyptian Geese and Sandpipers without going to 

 Uganda, but it should be recollected that not every sort of 

 bird can be induced to sit for its portrait, and the artist is, 

 therefore, somewhat limited in his choice of subjects. 



The letterpress also contains much interesting information, 

 and is the more acceptable as we have as yet received very 

 little information on the habits and customs of the birds of 

 East Africa. It was a mistake, we think, not to have put 

 the birds' names ou the plates, as that would have saved 

 many inconvenient researches. 



87. The South African Journal. 



[The Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union. Vol. vii. 

 No. 2, Dec. 1911.] 



In this part we have the first instalment of Notes on a 

 Collection of Birds in the Transvaal IMuseum from Boror, 

 Portuguese East Africa, made by the writer (Mr. liobertsj 

 and Mr. Kirby. The district is described, and its peculiar 

 climatic conditions, while attention is particularly called to a 

 new species (Dendromus albifacics) and three new subspecies 



