956 Recently j>i(hlis ft ed Ornilfiolof/icaiffor/cs. [Ilns^ 



Mr. W. H. St. Quiiitiu wins the Society^s medal for the 

 successful breeding of the Lesser White-footed Goose in 

 captivity in Britain for the first time, and M. Dcooux the 

 Society's prize for his account of the breeding of hybrid 

 Melba Finch x Crimson-eared Waxbill. 



The volume is illustrated by a number of very successful 

 photographs^ but it has not yet been found possible to issue 

 any coloured plates. 



The Bombay Journal. 



[The Jourual of the Bombay Natural History Society. Vul. xxvi., 

 parts 1-4. Dec. 1918-Jan. 1920.] 



The Bombay Journal for 1919 forms a stout volume of 

 over a thousaiul pages, and contains a great deal that is of 

 interest to the ornithologist as well as to students of other 

 branches of natural history. Four parts of Mr. Stuart 

 Baker's monograph of the Indian Game-birds deal with 

 the Cheer, the Fire-back Pheasants, the Monals, and the 

 Tragopans, and are illustrated vvitli fine coloured plates of 

 Catreus walUclui, LopJiophorus impejanus (plate labelled 

 L. refiihjens), and Tragopan blylhi. 



Mr. C. II. Uouald continues his account of the Birds of 

 Prey of the Punjab. It is a useful paper dealing with 

 fifty-six out of tiie eighty-two known Indian species, and 

 contains keys, descriptions, and notes on habits, while the 

 task of identifying the birds on the wing is rendered more 

 easy by a series of outline diagrams of the birds as seen when 

 flying directly overhead. ]\Ir. H. Whistler completes liis list 

 of the birds of Ambala, aiid contributes two others on the 

 birds observed by him in the Ludhiana district and near 

 Fagoo — the first two lo^'alitics in the plains and the last in 

 the Himalaya of tiie Punjab. Capt. C. B. Ticeliurst de- 

 scribes a new^ Bull)ul from Mesopotamia, Pycnonotus leucotis 

 mesoputamia, and in another paper enumerates eight races of 

 the Common Starling occurring in Asia besides mentioning 

 five others of uncertain status. Mr. A. E. Jones enumerate} 

 the birds of the Simla hills, and Messrs. Inglis, Travers, 

 O'Donel and Sherbearc the vertebrates of the Jalpaiguri 



