582 Recent! >j published Ornithological Works. 



written by Prof. Bianchi, and are informed that others are 

 likely to follow shortly. The present section is mainly devoted 

 to the Larks, a very difficult group to handle satisfactorily. 

 The following new subspecies are described : — Otocorys 

 brandti montana, O. b. przewalskii, and O. elwesi khamensis. 

 The text is written in Russian and German. The following 

 species are well figured : — Plate vii. Acredula calva, Cyanistes 

 berezowskii ; Plate x. JEgtthalus stoliczkce, Budytes leuco- 

 cephala. 



70. Butler's ' Supplement to the Birds of New Zealand' 

 [Supplement to the Birds of New Zealand. By Sir Walter Lawry 

 Buller, K.C.M.G. Vol. i. 1905 ; vol. ii. 1906. 4to. 200 pp. ; twelve 

 plates. Published for the Subscribers by the Author. Price £6 6s. net.] 



Seventeen years have elapsed since the publication of the 

 ' Birds of New Zealand/ and Sir Walter Buller has rightly 

 judged that it is time to summarize the additions that have 

 been made to our knowledge of the subject since that impor- 

 tant work was completed. Instead of bringing out a third 

 edition, the author has thought it better to prepare a 

 Supplement of the same style and appearance, and to incor- 

 porate in it all the new information which he has obtained, 

 together with coloured illustrations of the species not figured 

 in the former volumes. In so doing he has resolved to 

 folloAV the new arrangement of Dr. Bowdler Sharpens ' Hand- 

 list/ so that he begins with the lowest and ends with the 

 highest forms. The first volume of the Supplement is now 

 published, and the second, we are informed, is nearly ready 

 for issue. 



Besides the Preface and the Introduction, the first volume 

 of the Supplement, commencing with the Kiwis, contains an 

 account of all the birds of New Zealand in the order of the 

 ' Hand-list' up to the end of the Waders. Five coloured 

 plates drawn by Keulemans represent Apteryx haasti, Mega- 

 podius pritchardi, Cabalus modestus, OEstrelata ccrvicalis, and 

 the heads of Diomedea bulleri and D. salvini. 



It should be noted that all the known species of New- 

 Zealand birds are mentioned in the Supplement, so that it 





