518 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
discussing the views of various authorities he concludes by 
agreeing with the majority in considering the Flamingos to 
form an independent group or Suborder, corresponding to 
Huxley^s Amphimorphse, standing between the Anseres and 
the Herodiones. Among the Anseres^ they come nearest to 
certain Geese ; while they have borrowed characters from a 
number of Grallatorial forms. &uch as Platalea, the Ihididoe, 
and Tantalus, though they do not approximate closely to 
such genera as Ardea. The six plates represent various 
bones and the skeleton of Phoenicupterus ruber. 
97. Silloway on the Birds of Flathead Lake. 
[Summer Birds of Flathead Lake. By P. M. Silloway. Bull. Univ. 
Montana, no. 1, pp. 1-83, pis. i.-xvi.] 
Mr. Silloway's observations were chiefly made from 
June 14th to August 30th, 1900, but were supplemented by 
others made in 1901. They comprise a list, admittedly not 
yet complete, of the birds of the Flathead Lake district 
in Montana, and a series of very interesting notes on its 
Oology. A hundred and twenty-eight species are reported, 
of which all but eight probably breed in the district. 
Fourteen plates of nests and eggs are added, with tw'o views 
of the surroundings of the Biological Station. The neigh- 
bouring country is admirably suited to bird-life, with its 
mountains, woods, bushy and marshy areas, and open prairies. 
98. Southwell on Browne's 'Natural History of JVorfolk.' 
[Notes and Letters on the Natuial History of Norfolk, more especially 
on the Birds and Fishes. From the MSS. of Sir Thomas Browne, 
M.D. (1605-1682) in the Sloane Collection in the Library of the 
British Museum and in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. With Notes by 
Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., &c. London : 1902 (Jarrold & Sons). 8vo. 
Price 6s. net. 
In choosing a title for this nice little book, Mr. Southwell 
hardly does justice to its contents, for though, as was natural. 
Sir Thomas Browne's Notes and Letters chiefly concern the 
county of his adoption and abode, many of them have a very 
general bearing, and wall be read with as much interest by any 
