514 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
with commendable care and accuracy, the general arrangement 
of Naumann having been pretty closely followed. The various 
foreign names, a careful synonymy, and full descriptions of 
the birds with their habitats, habits, food, and nidification, 
their enemies, the mode of their capture, their use — and the 
contrary if they are destructive — are all fully given. Sub- 
species are referred to, but fortunately not fully treated of, 
for it appears that of the Crested Lark alone eighteen sub- 
species have already been described and named, though in the 
present work only two, G. cristata and G. thecklcs, are included 
as valid. The plates are, on the whole, good ; but, as five 
artists have been employed^ they are rather varied in execution, 
those of Mr. Keulemans being by far the best, while those of 
Pastor Kleinschmidt, though somewhat stiff, are accurate and 
fairly artistic. The third volume consists of 391 pages of 
letterpress, 43 chromolithographic plates of birds and 5 of 
eggs, and as the price is only sixteen shillings it is- indeed 
a marvel of cheapness and a work that we can safely 
recommend to our readers. We only regret that it has not 
been issued in the handy octavo form of the original work, 
for large folio volumes such as these are heavy and far less 
convenient for reference-purposes. 
9.2. Oustalet and Claybroohe on the third Ornithological 
Congress at Paris. 
[1II« Congres Ornithologique International, Paris. — 26-30 Juin, 1900. 
Compte Rendu des Seances pu"bli^ par E. Oustalet et J. de Claybrooke. 
8vo. Paris: Masson et G^% 1901.] 
This volume, which is full of interest to all ornithologists, 
contains a complete I'cport of the business transacted at the 
third meeting of the International Ornithological Congress 
held at Paris in June 1900, and a list of the members present. 
This is followed by a long series of papers on different 
branches of our science, among the authors of which we 
notice the names of Reiser (Birds of Balkan), Johansen 
(Birds of Central Siberia), Bowdler Sharpe (Birds of Mon- 
golia and Birds of North China), Berlepsch and Stolzmann 
(New Species from Central Peru), Simon (new Trochiiidce), 
