G30 Recently published Oniitholo(jical Works. 



j)resented by Miss Alexander to the Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology of the University of California. 



The field-notes have been arranged, and are printed at 

 length in the present Report, which a2:)pears to have been 

 most carefully aud accurately prepared, and to do great 

 credit to our brother Ornithologists of the Far West. 



108. Swarth on Birds from Vancouver Island. 



[lieport ou a Collection of liirds and Mammals from Vancouver Island. 

 By Harry S. Swarth. Univ. of Calif. Publ. x. No. 1.] 



This is an account of another zoological expedition "^ or- 

 ganized and financed 'Mjy Miss Annie M. Alexander and led 

 by her in person during a large part of the summer of 1910. 

 The birds collected on Vancouver Island, aud subsequently 

 presented to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the 

 University of California, were 1142 iu numbei'. They are 

 referred to 111 species. After an itinerary of the voyage, 

 which is illustrated by a map, a complete list of the sj)ecies 

 is given, accompanied by a series of excellent field-notes. 



109. Van Pelt-Lechner on Netherland Oology. 



[Oologia Neerlandica. E;.:'gs of Birds breeding- in the Netherlands. 

 By A. A. van Pelt-Lechner. The Hague: 1911-12. Tarts 2 & '6, 

 29 and 36 plates respectively.] 



AVe have now received two more parts of this excellent 

 work on Oology. Being written in English, it will doubtless 

 be often consulted by those of us specially interested in the 

 Palajarctic Region, while the details of coloration of the 

 various '' layers ^' of the egg-shell, ou which so much stress 

 is laid, are of considerable importance. The plates are 

 beautiful, and the only criticisms of them Avliich we have 

 to ofier are that the colour in the eggs of the Grasshopper 

 Warbler is not cpiite pink enough, while in those of the 

 ChiffchafE the markings are made red and not purplish black, 

 Avhich is almost invariably their colour in Britain. The author 

 himself is probably disappointed with the white eggs, which 

 come out greyish under the process used. The letterpress 



