152 Recently published OrnithologicalWorks, 



Reiser on the Great Spotted Cuckoo. 



[Ueber die Erbeutiing eines Halierkuckucks, Clarnator glandarius (L.), 

 und eine wichtige Ortliclikeit ziir Beobachtung dea Vogelzuges. Von 

 0. Reiser. Oru. Jahvb. xxv. 1913, pp. 81-85.] 



In this short note Dr. Reiser recounts the circumstances 

 under which an example of the Great Spotted Cuckoo was 

 obtained on the banks of the Naventa in southern Dalmatia 

 on the 1st o£ April last. It is the second record of its 

 occurrence in Dalmatia, as well as in the whole of Austro- 

 Hungary. 



Ridgway on Colour Nomenclature. 



[Colour Standards and Colour Nomenclature. By Robert Ridgway, 

 M.S., C.M.Z.S., etc., etc. With fifty-tbree coloured Plates and 

 eleven bundred and fifteen named colours. Pp. 1-44, pis. 1-53. 

 Washington (publ. by the Author), 1912. 8vo. London (Wm. 

 Wesley & Son). Price £1 15s.] 



This work was intended to be originally a second edition 

 of the author's ' Nomenclature of Colours/ published in 

 1886, and now long out of print and very difficult to 

 obtain. 



Some two or three years after the publication of the 

 first-named work Mr. Ridgway began to devise plans and 

 gather materials for a new book on the subject. His time, 

 however, has been so fully occupied by other matters that 

 progress has been necessarily slow ; but after more than 

 twenty years of sporadic effort it has at last been completed. 



The greater part of the present work is occupied by the 

 fifty-three plates, on each of which there is represented, 

 samples of twenty-seven shades or tints of colours, all named, 

 and by means of these it Avill be possible, if they are generally 

 used, as we hope they may be, to standardize the nomen- 

 clature of colours in descriptive zoology. At present few 

 things are more vague than the nomenclature of colour in 

 zoology. Every author has his own ideas and his own 

 nomenclature, and there is great confusion and ambiguity. 

 If authors were to adopt some such code as is contained in 



