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Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, but completed alone. Besides numerous 

 articles, he also wrote several monographs^ the most im- 

 portant being the ' Monographs of the Rollers and of the 

 Bee-eaters.' A further 'very valuable publication by H. E. 

 Dresser is his ' Manual of Palsearctic Birds.^ 



"The continuance of the war has undoubtedly much 

 interfered with the prosecution of Ornithology and ornitho- 

 logical exploration; but, considering the almost worldwide 

 upheaval, I consider that our science has remained remark- 

 ably alive and a lot of good work has been done. 



" Mr. Eagle Clarke and the Misses Rintoul and Baxter 

 have continued their highly valuable studies on migration, 

 and Mr. Witherby and Miss Jackson have done much to 

 further our knowledge in connection with moults and 

 plumages connected with British Birds, and Riippell's 

 Warbler and Dusky Warbler have been added to the British 

 List. The new edition of the ' B. O. U. List of British 

 Birds'" has appeared, which gave rise to several articles of 

 comment by Messrs. Iredale, Hartert, Bannerman, Ticehurst, 

 and the authors of the Hand-list. Mr. Howard^s very 

 exhaustive life-history of the ' British Warblers ' has been 

 brought to a successful finish. 



" In Germany and France a number of very interesting 

 notes on the birds in and around the fighting area have 

 been published by Count Zedlitz (Poland), Hans Boker 

 (N. France), Dr. Gengler (who even found time to make a 

 collection of Belgian Birds, about which we may hear later). 

 Lieutenant Schalow, and Captain Bacmeister j while on the 

 French side Messieurs Albert Hugues, L'Hermite^, Fevrier, 

 and de la Fuye have published short articles, and the Comte 

 de Tristan a very interesting and extensive one on the 

 ' Birds of the Dunes of Nieuport ' during the war. 



"In France the following articles of special interest have 

 appeared: — 'A List of the Raptores of the Peninsula of 

 Dakar,'" by Dr. Millet- Horsin ; ' Notes on the Song-birds of 

 Veudome,' by M. Cuursimoult; 'A List of Birds observed 

 in Morocco between the Years 1884 and 1914,' by H. 

 and A. Vaucher; and 'Observations on the Birds of the 



