1920.] Reccnili/ published Oniitliological tVorks. 037 



year, and contributed a number of articles on tbe birds ot" 

 Pondoland and East Griqualand to tlie Joninal of tbe 

 former society between 1907 and 1914. He was also a 

 most accurate and conscientious bird-artist, and many of our 

 readers will remember tbe series of coloured [)bites from 

 bis brush witb which tbe late Major Horsbrugb^s ' Game- 

 birds and Waterfowl of South Africa' was illustrated. 



After the war he was stationed at Okanjande in tbe 

 northern part of the Soutb-West African Protectorate, and 

 wrote an account of tbe birds which he bad there observed 

 and collected for the newly established South African 

 Journal of Natural History. To tbe pages of 'The Ibis' 

 (1919, p. 167) he contributed an account of Hiera.a'etus 

 arjresi, which he proved to be identical witb Sharpens 

 Lopliotriorchis lucani; this was illustrated by a fine plate 

 reproduced from his own painting of this handsome Hawk- 

 Eagle. His premature death at tbe early age of 46 deprives 

 South Africa of an ornithologist of great promise. 



XXXYI. — Notices of recent Ornithological FnlAicutiuns. 



Baldwin on Bird-handing . 



[Bird-banding by meaus of systematic trapping. By Prentiss Baldwin. 

 Abstract of Troc. Linn. Soc. New York, no. 31, 1919, pp. 23-o6; 7 pis.] 



Mr. Baldwin's bird-markinu has been done, not so much 

 witb a view to migration work as to study various other 

 questions in regard to ibe habits of birds. His method is 

 to band adults as well as nestlings, and he obtains his 

 material by systematic trapping witb tbe Amevican Govern- 

 ment Sparrow-trap which causes no injury to the birds 

 when taken. The work has been carried out on two farms, 

 one in Ohio and tbe other in Georgia, in tbe middle and 

 southern States respectively. 



He states that he finds the same individual biid is caught 

 again and again and often several times on tbe same day. 

 He hopes in the course of time to bring evidence forward as 

 to the length of life of wild birds, and lie bas already proved 



