350 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



recently described by Bannerman, whom he met in Fuerte- 

 ventura^ but he made some other observations which he here 

 recounts. 



One of the most valuable papers is that of Dr. A. Laub- 

 mann (pp. 108-153, 161-173), who has critically examined 

 further large collections of birds from Corsica in the Munich 

 and in his own Museum, and here discusses at length the 

 validity or otherwise of the many subspecies created for the 

 Corsican and Sardinian breeding birds. In most of the 

 cases examined by him he upholds the distinctions made by 

 Parrot, Kleinschmidt, and other authors, and concludes that 

 in a general way the Corsican subspecies are distinguished 

 from their continental allies by their more intensive and 

 darker coloration and by their slightly smaller size. He 

 upholds the distinctness of Corvus corax sardus Kleinschm. 

 against the attacks of Balducci (see 'Ibis,' 1913, p. 138). 



A shorter article by W. Bacmeister (pp. 55-60) discusses 

 the occurrence of the Rock-Sparrow (Petronia p. petronid) in 

 Wiirttemberg. It has been stated, and no doubt with truth, 

 that it nested in the early part of the last century among 

 the ruias of the oastle of Neuhaus, near Mergentheim, but 

 it certainly does not do so at the present time. 



Die Schwalbe. 



[Die Scliwalbe, Berichte des Komitees fiir Ornitliologische Beobach- 

 tungs-Statlonen in Osterreiciis. Redi^-iert von Dr. Ludwig Ritter Lorenz 

 von Liburnau. Neue Folge, iii. 1902-1913.] 



The editor of this journal explains in the commencement 

 of the present number the long interval that has elapsed 

 since the appearance of the previous one, which is due 

 partly to the mass of material accumulated and partly to 

 difficulties of meeting the cost of publication. 



The present number opens with a discussion of the question 

 as to whether the Water-Ouzel destroys fish spawn and fry 

 as it has often been accused of doing. As a result of careful 

 enquiries and investigations ^throughout various parts of 

 Austria, the conclusion is reached that though occasionally 



