724 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



of the death of " the well-known Russian Ornithologist, 

 Dr. N. A. JSai'udiiy, or as it is sometimes spelt Zarudnij,. 

 This occurred in March 11)19 at Tashkent in Turkestan, 

 and was hastened by privations endured under the Bol- 

 shevist regime. 



Dr. Sarudny was for many years Curator of the Museum 

 in Tashkent, and had travelled very extensively, not only in 

 Turkestan but also in Persia and Baluchistan. He was not 

 only a very careful field-naturalist and collector, but had 

 published much on the Birds of Central Asia in the 

 ' Messager Ornithologique ^ and other Russian journals. 

 Major Bailey describes iiow he found him and his wife 

 living in one room of his house, all the others having been 

 taken from him by the Bolslievists. In this one room was 

 his private collection of birds, stored in cardboard boxes 

 and filling nearly the whole space up to the ceiling. This 

 valuable collection was " nationalized " by the Bolshevists 

 at the time of his death, and is now in the Museum at 

 Tashkent. 



XXVIII. — Notices of recerit Ornithological Publications. 



Brook on the Common Buzzard. 



[The Buzzard at Home. By Arthur Brook. London : 1920. 8vo. 

 Pp. 1-15 ; 12 photographic illustration?.] 



This is another of the sketches of Bird-Life, published by 

 Messrs. Witherby, corresponding to that of the Golden 

 Eagle (Il)is, 1910, p. 207). The writer set up a tent close 

 to a Buzzard's nest in Wales, and was able to secure 

 pictures of the adult and young on various occasions. 

 He gives an interesting account of what he saw during 

 the period that the young were in the nest and of their 

 subsequent flight from it. Incidentally he tells us that he 

 has known of more than one nest on the ground in heather 

 or rushes. 



