Recently published Ornithological Works. 477 



by Mr. Witmer Stone on the same lines as those of previous 

 years^ and probably forms the most valuable contribution of 

 permanent interest. 



Journ. S. African Orn. Union. 



[Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union. Vol. viii. for 

 1912, Pretoria.] 



The principal paper in the present volume is perhaps one by 

 Mr. Austin Roberts^ containing field-notes on the birds col- 

 lected by himself and Mr. F. Vaughan Kirby for the Pretoria 

 Museum in the province of Boror, which lies north of the 

 lower reaches of the Zambesi and stretches from Quilemane 

 to southern Nyasaland. A good many new forms have already 

 been described from this collection, and several additional 

 ones are here named. One very interesting observation 

 made by Mr. Austin some time ago and here confirmed is of 

 the parasitic habit of the Widow Bird(Viilua serena), which 

 lays its eggs in the nests of another Widow Bird {Colius- 

 passer ardens). The volume contains other interesting 

 papers by Mr. E. C. Chubb, of the Durban Museum, 

 Mr. C. G, Davies, Mr. A. Haagner, and others. 



Other Ornithological Publications received. 



BuCKNiLL, .T. A. Natural History and Sport in Cyprus. (Handbook 



of Cyprus, 1913.) 

 HERRING, R. Fugiene ved de dauske Fyr i 1912. (Vid. Meddel. Dausk. 



Nat. Foren., Bd. 65, 1913.) 

 MouLTON, J. C. Eleventh Report of the Sarawak Museum. Sarawak, 



1913. 

 Thomson, A. Land.sborough. Sport and Ornithology on the Baltic 



Coast. (Chambers's Journal, May 1913.) 

 TsCHUSi zu ScHMiDHOFFEN, V., Ritter von. Ankunfts- und Abzugs- 



daten bei Hallein, 1912. (Orn. Monatsch. xxxviii. 1913.) 

 Auk. (Vol. XXX. Nos. 1-2, 1913 ) 



Avicultural Magazine. (3rd Series, Vol. iv. Nos. 6-7, 1913.) 

 Bird Notes. (New Scries, Vol. iv. Nos. 4-6, 1913.) 



