Recently published Ornithological Works. 367 



Among a more or less purely utilitarian class in Belfast 

 he stood out prominently as a broad-minded man of wide 

 sympathies, anxious to popularize knowledge, and always 

 ready to give his time and money for the promotion of 

 Natural Science. — 11. M. B. 



XXIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 212.] 



34. 'Avicultural Magazine.' 



[Avicultural Magazine. The Journal of the Avicultural Society. New 

 Series. Vol. iv. No. 2. December l'JOo.] 



The main article in this number is that on the Regent Bird 

 (Sericulus melinus) by Mr. R. Phillipps, in which he gives 

 details of the successful hatching of two young birds, and 

 discusses the question of the possible polygamy of the male. 

 He also makes the important correction that the bowers which 

 he formerly attributed to males are constructed by females, 

 and that the males do not make two kinds of bowers. 

 Mrs. Howard Williams writes on the nesting of Munia 

 pectoralis, Mr. Teschemaker on that of the Green Avaduvat. 



35. Dresser's ' Eggs of the Birds of Europe.' 



[Eg-g-s of the Birds of Europe, including- all the Species inhabiting the 

 "Western Palaearctic Area. By II. E. Dresser. Pt. II. London: December 

 1905. 4to. Pp. 33-08 ; 5 pis.] 



The second part of Mr. Dresser's work on European 

 Oology (see above, p. 192) has now been published, and 

 contains his account of the Vultures, the Kites, the Honev- 

 Buzzard, nine species of Phylloscopus, eight of Hypolais, 

 and two of Action. The eggs figured are those of Vultur 

 monachus, Neophron percnopterus, Gypaetus barbatus, Milrus 

 ictinus, M. agyptius, the Phylloscopinee {Regains, Phyllo- 

 scopus, Hypolais), and Aedon. 



Mr. Dresser's knowledge of the distribution of species is a 

 great feature in the letterpress, while the debt under which 

 he lies to Mr. Zarudny is evident in the case of many 



