334 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Ogilvie-Grant on British Game-birds. 



[The Gun at Home and Abroad. British Game-birds and Wild-fowl. 

 By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant and others. Pp. xii -1-444. 30 coloured plates. 

 London (London and Counties Press Assoc), 1912. 4to.] 



This work is intended more for sportsmen than for natura- 

 lists, and deals at considerable length with the British Game- 

 birds — the Capercaillie, Black and Bed Grouse, Pheasant, 

 and Partridge. Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, who has undertaken 

 the natural history portion of the work, has managed to 

 include a good deal of matter not generally found in books 

 of this nature, such as an account of the eclipse-plumage 

 of the Capercaillie and of other game-birds. In the chapter 

 on the Pheasant there is a useful and carefully revised list of 

 all the known forms divided into natural groups, and also a 

 table showing the geographical distribution of each species 

 or subspecies, though the limits of these are yet far from 

 satisfactorily settled. A good many of the various forms 

 have been imported and turned down in English coverts at 

 one time or another, so that our present British strain of 

 Pheasant is extraordinarily complex. 



Less space is devoted to the Water-fowl, of which, how- 

 ever, Mr. O. -Grant gives a most comprehensive key, which 

 he believes will enable any British-killed Duck to be 

 unerringly identified. 



The articles on shooting and rearing are chiefly by 

 Col. R. F. Meysey Thompson and Major A. Acland Hood, 

 while the illustrations from the brush of Mr. G. E. Lodge 

 are full of charm, and show the plumage-changes with great 

 detail. 



Ogilvie-Grant on a new Larh. 



[On a new Lark from the Cape Province. By W, R. Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Annals S. Afr. Mus. xiii. 1913, p. 41.] 



Calandrella sclateri capensis, subsp. n., from Philipstown 

 in the Cape Province, is here described, which differs in its 

 darker markings and more blackish bill from the typical 

 C. sclateri obtained in Great Namaqualand. 



