150 Recently jniblished Ornithological Works. 
13. Harris on Birds of the Canaries and South Africa. 
[Essays and Photographs. Some Birds of the Canary Islands and 
South Africa. By Henry E. Harris. 8vo. London, 1901. Pp. i-xiv, 
1-212. Price 21s. net.] 
Mr. Harris^ though he tells us that las main object was to 
secure photographs, and that he did not originally contera- 
l^late writing a book in connexion with them, gives us a 
very pleasant account of his adventures in the Canary Islands 
and Cape Colony during the year 1899. His descriptions 
of the natural beauties of the country and of the inhabitants 
are very picturesque, while he affords a considerable amount 
of information about the birds at their breeding quarters, 
and is decidedly successful in his attempt to portray them 
by means of the camera. Of the plates^ perhaps tlie most 
interesting are those of ^^ ploughing with camels,"" of the eggs 
of the Cream-coloured Courser and of the sitting bird, of 
the nests of the Houbara Bustard, the Secretary-bird, the 
Lark-heeled Cuckoo and the Hammerkop, of the Stanley 
Cranes, the Gannets, and the Penguins ; though some 
Passerine birds are also well represented. Six months were 
spent in Fuerteventura and Tenerife, and an equal period in 
South Africa; but, as to the islands, the time of year was too 
early for a perfectly successful ornithological expedition. 
In Fuerteventura the main places visited were La Oliva, La 
Antigua, Tuineje, and Puerto Cabras ; in Tenerife, Yilaflor, 
Garachico, and Orotava (where the flower-carpet was on 
view) ; and in Cape Colony, Houw Hoek, Stanford, Caledon, 
Bot Kiver Vley, Knysna, Bird Island, Seal Island, and Saint 
Croix — the last three in Algoa Bay. 
14. Hartert on his former Travels and Researches. 
[Aus den Wanderjahreu eines Naturforschers. Keisen imd Forsch- 
luigen in Afrika, Asian uud Amerika. Von Ernst Hartert. Nov. 
Zool. viii. pp. 221-355.] 
]\Ir. Hartert proposes to give us an account of his former 
travels and researches in various parts of the world in 
' Novitates Zoologicse,' and begins here with the first eight 
chapters of it. The first four contain an interesting narrative 
of his journey through Nigeria to Kano and Socoto in 1885, 
in which many zoological allusions are introduced. Some 
