378 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



with an autobiography, the author passes to general ob- 

 servations on the fauna, which contain much of interest with 

 regard to the comparative abundance of species, migration 

 (map), occurrence of varieties, wild-fowling, the sole re- 

 maining local duck-decoy (at Fritton), works on the avifauna 

 of the district, and the like. This is followed by an anno- 

 tated catalogue of the mammals, birds, fishes, reptiles, 

 amphibians, stalk-eyed crustaceans, and mollusks of Eastern 

 Norfolk. We can heartily recommend the book to all lovers 

 of Nature, but wish that the whole of Broad-land had been 

 included, in the absence of which the author fails at times to 

 give a correct impression of the status of some of the species 

 of birds. The coloured plates are rather brilliant, but are a 

 pleasant change after a surfeit of photographs. 



49. Pungur on the Migration of the Swallow. 



[Der Herbstzug der Rauchschwalbe in 1898 in Ungarn. By Julius 

 Pungur, with a Preface by Otto Herman, and Notes on the Weather at 

 the Timeof Migration by Jacob Hegyfoky. Aquila, xi. (]!J04), pp. 1-250, 

 2 maps. (Written in Hungarian and German.)] 



Our friends in Hungary are at the present time most 

 active in collecting information on the subject of migration, 

 and now send us a very long and detailed paper on the 

 autumnal movements of the Swallow in 1898, as a complement 

 to the account of its spring-movements previously published. 

 Their methods have already been noticed in ' The Ibis ' (1905, 

 p. 634), and recall to our minds those of Mr. Eagle Clarke, 

 who also confined himself to a single species at a time. But 

 the details are worked out with even greater elaboration, 

 and the results attained are depicted on two maps marked 

 in squares (quadrate). The extreme and mean dates are 

 deduced, and " formula? " given for the separate regions, 

 besides many other details. Great attention is paid to the 

 height of the place of observation, its geographical position 

 and surroundings, while tabulated results are constantly 

 added, and a comparison instituted between the dates of 

 arrival and departure. This is, however, but a rough sketch 

 of a most elaborate piece of work, which must be consulted 

 by every student of the subject for himself. 



