372 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



41. Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union. 



[The Journal of the South African Ornithologist*' Union. Vol. i. 

 No. 2. December 190-3.] 



We have now the pleasure of announcing the issue of the 

 second number of the Journal of our sister Union in South 

 Africa (cf. 'The Ibis/ 1905, p. 635), which is edited by 

 Mr. A. Haagner with the assistance of an editorial Com- 

 mittee. The principal articles are by Mr. James G. Brown 

 on the water-birds of Zwaartkops River, near Port Elizabeth, 

 by Mr. Haagner on the birds of the vicinity of Modderfontein, 

 Transvaal, and by Mr. A. Duncan on the difficult question 

 of the seasonal changes of plumage in the Bishop-Birds 

 (Pyromelana) . Three good photographic plates prepared by 

 Mr. R. H. Ivy, of Grahamstown, represent Anthropoides 

 paradisea, Stria? capensis, and the Knysna Plaintain-eater 

 (Turacus corythaix) with its nest and eggs. Other notes and 

 notices follow. 



42. Kelsall and Munn on the Birds of Hampshire. 



[The Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. By the Rev. J. E. 

 Kelsall, M.A., and Philip W. Munn. London, 1905. 8vo. Pp. i-xliv, 

 1-371 ; 19 illustrations aud map. Price 15s. net.] 



This volume supplies a long-felt want. The neighbouring 

 counties of Wilts aud Dorset have each had their ornitho- 

 logical chronicler, but Hampshire birds have as yet only been 

 known from lists in general histories, or discussed from the 

 point of view of separate districts. In one sense few counties 

 have been more fortunate, as from the time of Gilbert White 

 — not to mention Christopher Merrett — to the present day, 

 Hampshire has been a favourite hunting - ground for 

 ornithologists, while the ISew Forest alone sufficiently 

 accounts for their sustained interest in the county. Still 

 there was ample room for a book which should weave into 

 one the various scattered threads of literature, and such a 

 volume now lies before us, with the accompaniment of a full 

 bibliography, and some account of the former authors who 

 have written on Hampshire birds. Mr. Kelsall, one of the 

 joint authors, himself published an annotated list of species 



