658 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
coloured plates and many useful figures in the text, and 
sold at a moderate price, may well help to popularize 
ornithology, especially among those in whose language it is 
written. In the first part (166 pp.) much preliminary 
matter is contained. The structure, distribution, migration, 
classification, and various points in the history o£ bird-life 
are discussed at some length ; while a useful bibliography, 
containing the titles of the principal publications on the 
birds of Europe and its several countries, is added. The 
second part (566 pp.) contains a regular account of European 
birds, arranged systematically, beginning with the Accipitres 
and Picarise and ending with the Anseres. The author 
admits 565 species into the European list. He is sparing 
in his recognition of subspecies^ and denotes them by 
alphabetical signs [a, b, c, &c.) only. The scientific and 
Italian names adopted are alone given, without synonymy. 
Tautonyms are used in every possible case. The 50 coloured 
plates are reproductions from Arnold^s ' Vogel Europas ' 
(Stuttgardt, 1897). 
103. ' The Avicultural Magazine.' 
[The Avicultural Magazine; being; the Journal of the Avicultural 
Society for the Study of British and Foreign Birds. Vol. vii. (1901) 
and vol. viii. nos. 1-8 (1901-2). London : Porter.] 
We are much pleased to have received a copy of the 
recent numbers of the ' Avicultural Magazine.'' Avi- 
culturists and ornithologists are so nearly akin that they 
ought to fraternize ; and many names well known in 
ornithology will be found mentioned in the columns of 
the ' Avicultural Magazine.^ 
The birds treated of by our contemporary are, of com'se, 
those that are, or may be, kept in captivity- but among 
these are many of considerable scientific interest. Mr. 
Reginald Phillips keeps a pair of young Bee-eaters in his 
dining-room, and tells us many curious stories about them. 
The Hon. Canon Dutton writes about the '^ August Amazon ^' 
(Chi^ysotis augustd) of Dominica, and illustrates the article 
with a beautiful coloured plate, drawn by Mr. Herbert 
Goodchild. Mr. Dutton, as is well known, is one of our best 
