NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 375 
The thin octavo volume now before us contains a carefully 
prepared list of Nottinghamshire birds by these two gentlemen, 
supplemented by notes on the species, many of which are very 
interesting. Amongst these we may particularly notice the re- 
ported occurrence of the Hobby in mid-winter, of which three 
instances are given (p. 71); the capture of a North American Buz- 
zard, Buteo borealis, identified by Mr. Gould (p. 9); the breeding 
of the Black Redstart between Ollerton and Edwinstowe (p. 16), 
previously recorded in ‘The Birds of Sherwood Forest’; the 
occupation of a Sparrow’s nest in winter by a family of Golden- 
crested Wrens (p. 18); the occurrence of the Bearded Titmouse 
in a willow-bed at Toton (p. 20); and the American White- 
winged Crossbill at Edwinstowe (p. 26); the breeding of a colony 
of Rock Doves, Columba livia, in a steep bank near the Trent at 
Colwick (p. 35); and the occurrence in the county of the Red 
Grouse, and Pallas’s Sand Grouse (pp. 35, 37). 
A specimen of the Yellow-shanked Sandpiper of America, 
recorded by Yarrell to have been procured at Misson, Lincolnshire, 
is claimed by the authors of the List before us as a Nottingham- 
shire specimen, on the ground that Misson is “just within the 
northern border of the county.” In the same way they lay claim 
to an example of the Caspian Tern which had been recorded by 
Mr. Footit (‘The Zoologist,’ 1853, p. 3944) as having been 
obtained at Caythorpe, Lincolnshire. 
The account given by Mr. Whitaker of the breeding of the 
Tufted Duck at Rainworth is very interesting, and should induce 
Sportsmen to encourage as much as possible the observance of 
the close-time for wildfowl. 
Desfontaines’s ‘‘ Mémoire sur quelques nouvelles espéces d’Oiseaua 
des Cotes de Barbarie,” originally published in the ‘ Histoire 
de VAcadémie Royale des Sciences, 1789. Edited by 
ALFRED Newton, M.A., F.R.S., &c., and reprinted for 
“The Willughby Society.” Thin 4to, with seven full-page 
facsimile engravings. London, 1880. 
In ‘ The Zoologist’ for April last (p. 159) we took occasion to 
refer to the publication by “‘' The Willughby Society” of a reprint 
of Tunstall’s ‘ Ornithologia Britannia,’ and directed attention to 
