512 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



author now gives a complete synonymy of the generic names, 

 naming and discussing the types of each genus. In the first 

 volume the want of this information certainly detracted from 

 the value of the work. 



No very startling changes of nomenclature are proposed 

 beyond those already familiar to the users of the recently 

 published ' Hand-list of British Birds,' but it would surely 

 have been better to have settled one way or another which 

 generic names should be used for Ten gm aim's Owl and the 

 Little Owl. In the former case, JEgolius Kaup 1829 and 

 Cryptoglaux Richmond 1901 ; in the latter Athene Boie 

 1822 and Carine Kaup 1829, are given as alternatives, 

 Dr. Hartert being apparently undecided whether the two 

 earlier names in each case should be rejected or not through 

 the prior use of jEgolia and Athena. Surely it would have 

 been wiser to come to some decision one way or another. 



Of the Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) as many as eighteen distinct 

 forms or subspecies are recognised. This seems to be an 

 unnecessarily large number, though of course without going 

 carefully into the matter it is not possible to make a serious 

 criticism. Three new subspecies are distinguished in the 

 present part for the first time, i. e., Bubo bubo sivinhoei, south 

 China, Athene noctua lilith, Mesopotamia, and Falco tiunun- 

 culus dacoti<£^ Eastern Canary Islands. 



Howard's British Warblers. 



[The British Warblers. A History with Problems of their Lives. By 

 H. Eliot Howard, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. Illustrated by Henrik Gronvold. 

 Part 8, Dec. 1913. London (Porter).] 



The present part of Mr. Howard's detailed study of the 

 British Warblers is chiefly devoted to the Garden and Wood 

 Warblers. The Barred [Sylvia nisoria) and the Subalpine 

 [S. subalpina) are dismissed with short paragraphs of 

 description and distributional details, the former being 

 accorded one of Gronvold's delicately tinted plates ; the 

 plate of the latter appeared in the previous part. 



Most of our readers are by this time familiar with 

 Mr. Howard's work, which is now approaching completion. 



