1246 The Zoologist— June, 1868. 



some of the Rarer Species which have occurred iu some of the 

 adjoining Counties. By John Henry Gurney and William R. Fisher. 

 This is in all respects a first-class production : if I might venture on a 

 criticism of a paper which, immediately on its appearance, took its 

 place at the head of our local lists of birds, 1 should say that it is too 

 brief; the instructive notes which accompany the name of almost 

 every bird lead one to regret that they are so curt : as specimens of 

 the richness of the mine of knowledge possessed by these two ornith- 

 ologists, it is impossible to avoid feeling regret that they have given 

 us no more of the true metal. Here for the first time we have a notice 

 of the coucon ronx of continental writers, a bird concerning which 

 doubts still exist, some maintaining that it is merely the ordinary 

 cuckoo in its first dress, others maintaining that if so it should not 

 return to us in April and May clothed in the infantile plumage of 

 the previous year. The concluding observations at p. 1385 of the 

 'Zoologist' are most excellent, judiciously arranged, and highly 

 instructive. 



1848. Birds Of Sutherlandshire and Ross-shire, and Birds of St. 

 Kilda and the outer Hebrides, by Sir William M. E. Milner, Bart., 

 published in the 'Zoologist' for 1848. It is a matter of course that a 

 list of the birds observed in a summer tour may be very incomplete, 

 it being an almost imperative necessity that the compiler of such a list 

 should be resident. I therefore do not mention these as county lists, 

 as the winter season would undoubtedly make many additions to both 

 of them. 



1849. The Birds of Oxfordshire and its Neighbourhood, by the 

 Reverends Andrew and Henry Matthews, published in the ' Zoologist' 

 for 1849. In this highly instructive paper the species are classified 

 as Residents, Summer Visitors, Winter Visitors, Passing Visitors and 

 Occasional Visitors. This paper is written with great care, and is 

 deserving the attention of every ornithologist. 



1849. An Outline of the Ornithology of Godalming, in the County 

 of Surrey ; with brief Records of the Occurrence of some of the rarer 

 Birds. By Edward Newman. In this list, published in the same year 

 as the one previously described, the birds are very similarly divided, 

 namely, into Resident Natives, Migrant Natives, Winter Visitors, 

 Passing Visitors and Occasional Visitors : the two arrangements seem 

 to correspond very precisely. In other respects this has no merit, 

 except as combining the observations of those very able ornithologists, 

 Mr. Salmon, Mr. Kidd and Mr. Stafford. 



