Recently published Ornithological Works. 493 
sure that ‘ Granatellus pelzelni pelzelni Scl.’ is a com- 
bination which was never used by the author indicated by 
the “Sele: 
66. Howard’s ‘ British Warblers? 
(The British Warblers. A History, with Problems of their Lives. 
By H. Eliot Howard. Tlustrated by Henrik Grénvold. Part IL. 
London, 1907. Price 21s. net.] 
In this Part Mr. Howard gives a very full account of the 
Sedge- and Grasshopper-Warblers. They are described at 
length in both adult and immature plumage; their gco- 
graphical distribution is considered, and their life-history 
detailed and illustrated by a series of ten plates rendered 
by photogravure process. <A coloured figure is also given 
of the first species, and two of the latter (male and female). 
The illustrations are admirable and some of the best of their 
kind that we have seen, while an excellent coloured plate of 
eggs forms a frontispiece to the Part. Perhaps a little less 
might have been said about sexual selection, in which 
Mr. Howard is no believer, but otherwise the letterpress 
is pleasant to read and gives most reliable information. 
In a few points only the author trusts too implicitly to his 
own observations, which do not agree precisely with those 
of others. Maps are added to show the distribution of the 
Grasshopper- and Savi’s Warblers. 
67. ‘Irish Naturalist. 
(The Irish Naturalist. A Monthly Journal of General Irish Natural 
History. Vol. xv. Nos. 1-12 (1906). Eason & Sons, Dublin. | 
In the earlier portion of the present volume is an in- 
teresting Memoir of the late Edward Williams of Dublin, 
a naturalist of great merit as well as an admirable taxider- 
mist. He was a worker rather than a writer; nevertheless 
the list of his contributions to science fills more than a page 
and a half, and his records are absolutely trustworthy. 
Mr. R. J. Ussher’s discovery of a mandible of the Hawfinch 
in Co. Clare caves is of great interest, for, as Prof. Newton 
observes, “ eighty years ago or thereabouts Hawfinches were 
