Recently published Ornithological Works. 209 
which are examples of 13 species not previously recorded 
from Mindoro. An interesting occurrence is that of White’s 
Thrash (Turdus varius), of which a male was obtained at 
Bulalacao, Mindoro, on December 7th, 1905. Previous 
records of this species in the Philippmes have been made 
by Tweeddale (Manila) and Whitehead (Lepanto, Luzon). 
17. Martorelli on the Birds of Italy. 
[Gli Uccelli d@’ Italia, con 236 Fotoincisioni da acquarelle e fotografie 
originali dell’ autore e con 6 Tayole a colori del medesimo. Por Prof, 
Giacinto Martorelli. 1 vol. 4to. 678 pp. Milano, 1906. ] 
Count Arrigoni degli Oddi’s stout little ‘Manual of the 
Birds of Italy,’ noticed in ‘The Ibis’ for 1904, p. 461, is 
followed by the larger and in all respects more important 
quarto written by our Foreign Member, Professor Marto- 
relli. This contains descriptions of 463 species recognised 
as having occurred in Italy, and it may at once be said that 
wanderers have to shew a pedigree of good repute before 
they attain promotion from mere mention in a foot-note to 
the honour of a numeral. The systematic arrangement is 
that which has been adopted in the ‘ Hand-list of Birds in the 
British Museum,’ and begins with the Galliformes, working 
upwards to the Passeres. The descriptions of the species, 
their general distribution, and their special localization in 
Italy are all adequately given ; while on occasions where 
an illustration could be of any use there is either a full-page 
black plate or a figure in the text. These 236 illustrations 
are, as a rule, most spirited, and those of the Grey Plover, 
Glossy Ibis, Great White Heron, Bittern, immature Fla- 
mingo, Griffon and Egyptian Vultures, Kite, and Marsh- 
Harrier seem particularly successful ; that of the Marbled 
Duck also deserves mention because of the unusually correct 
delineation of its crest. Of the six coloured plates those of 
the Goosander and the Golden Oriole are pre-eminent, and 
then comes, in the Appendix, the crowning glory of the 
book in pl. vi., with the portrait of the young Wedge-tailed 
Gull (Rhodostethia rosea) which, as mentioned in ‘ The Ibis” 
for 1906, p. 394, was obtained early in January of that year 
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