222 Recent Oi'nithological Publications. 



that time many changes have been wrought in the physical 

 appearance of the county, which have had a corresponding effect 

 upon its Ornis. Devonshire was the county of Montagu, and, 

 for this reason alone, its birds would possess an interest in the 

 eyes of ornithologists ; but it is also by nature so favourably 

 situated as hardly to require such a recommendation to the 

 modern and severer school of bird-students. Mr. K,owe enume- 

 rates no less than 268 species as having occurred within its 

 borders — a very large number, it is true, but perhaps not more 

 than might be expected when we take into consideration its 

 great extent of coast-line. This number, however, we think, 

 might be slightly reduced. We should hardly have thought 

 that Picus martins and Lagopus rupestris (lege mutus) bad any 

 right to be included as Devonian species. The same, though on 

 different grounds, may be said of Chenopis atratus ; and Crex 

 foljambii is, of course, only a synonym for C minuta. On the 

 other hand, among the rarities which seem to have a rightful 

 claim to admission, are Aquila ncevia, Melanocorypha calandra — 

 recorded as British for the first time — Chroecocephalus ichthyaetus 

 and Alca impennis. The Calandra Lark was discovered in the 

 collection of a bird-preserver at Plymouth, and upon inquiry 

 was found to have been obtained in that neighbourhood, while 

 it " was supposed by its possessor to be a specimen of the Shore- 

 Lark." We did not know before that Lagopus scoticus ever ex- 

 tended its range so far to the south as Dartmoor ; but, as only 

 two examples are mentioned as having been obtained, we suppose 

 its occurrence is merely accidental. We regret to find that 

 Circles cineraceus, a bird which ought to possess an especial in- 

 terest with the worthies of Devon, is characterized as being 

 " very scarce." Tetrao urogallus is, of course, an oversight for 

 T. tetrix. 



We think the few pages on the ' Birds of Harrow,' communi- 

 cated by the Messrs. Bridgeman to a recently published work on 

 the Botany of that neighboui'hood*, deserve a passing notice in 

 this Journal, as being, so far as we are aware, the first attempt 



* The Flora of Harrow. By J. C. Melvill. With notices of the Birds 

 of the neighbourhood, by the Hon. F. C. Bridgeman, and the Hon. G. O. 

 M. Bridgeman. London : 1864 (Longmans). 



