Recently published Ornithological Works. 153 
go so far with Mr. Harting as to continue to keep the 
Accipitres at the head of the Class of Birds, and to sink 
the highly developed Swallows to the bottom of the Passeres, 
in order to bring them next to the Swifts. These, however, 
are but small blemishes in a useful work, well printed 
and well illustrated, which should be in the library of every 
" British bird-man." 
17. Hellmayr on the Genus Polioptila. 
[Zur Revision der Gattung Polioptila. Von C. E. Hellmayr. Nov. 
Zool. viii. pp. 356-361.] 
The genus Polioptila is re-revised (c/. Nov. Zool. vii. 
p. 555) and a new *' subspecies " is described. 
18. ' Irish Naturalist.'' 
[The Irish Naturalist. A Monthly Journal of General Irish Natural 
History. Edited by G. H. Carpenter and It. Lloyd Praeger. Vol. x. 
Nos. 1-12. Eason & Sons, Dublin.] 
This Journal makes a worthy commencement of the year 
1901 with a notice by JMr. Ussher of Mr. R. M. Harrington's 
excellent volume on the ' Migration of Birds observed at 
Irish Light Stations.^ A Tawny Owl recorded by Mr. 
Robert Patterson from Co. Down, and believed to be the 
first authenticated Irish example, was subsequently shown 
by the same gentleman to be one of nine birds obtained 
in the New Forest in June 1900 (during the close-time) and 
liberated in Co. Down by a gentleman who took " some 
interest in ornithology/' but did not think it necessary to 
mention the introduction in print. This the Editors stigma- 
tize as ^'falsifying the geographical record,^' and they 
proceed to express their opinion that, in some cases, " the 
introducer is almost as great an enemy to science as the 
exterminator."" However, most of these Owls have already 
perished, as they were proscribed because they disturbed 
the neighbourhood by their hooting. Dr. Patters has a 
somewhat lengthy article on the Grey Phalarope, while 
among the various occurrences may be cited those of a Roller 
m Donegal, an adult King-Eider in Co. Down, and a young 
