376 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Humber the two main lines of the autumn immigratory flights 

 converge and overlap." This publication is, however, much 

 more than a "List"; as regards the time of specific appear- 

 ances it is a veritable manual. The information is concise, and, 

 we need scarcely say, thoroughly authenticated. We will quote 

 the note appended to the Great Bustard (Otis tarda) : " The 

 last Lincolnshire Bustard was shot in 1818, in Thoresby Field, 

 near Louth, by Mr. Elmhirst, and sent as a present to Sir Joseph 

 Banks. . . . The last two eggs of the Bustard, as the late Sir 

 Charles Anderson, of Lea, told me, were taken in 1835 or 1836, 

 on his father's property at Haywold, near Driffield, on the York- 

 shire wolds. On November 11th, in 1864, a dead female Bustard, 

 still warm, was picked up at sea, in Bridlington Bay." A note is 

 attached to every species, and each note will probably afford a 

 subsequent quotation. 



Faune de France, contenant la description de toutes les especes 

 indigenes disposees en tableaux analytiques et illustree de 

 figures representant les types caracteristiques des genres et 

 des sous-genres. Par A. Acloque. Preface de Ed. Perkier, 

 professeur au Museum. Paris : J. B. Balliere et Fils. 



In our last volume (1898, p. 514) we noticed the third part 

 of this very useful publication. The fourth, devoted to the 

 " Mammiferes," has just reached us, in which 209 figures are 

 distributed in a space of 84 pages. 



The synoptical method is again pursued, and we know of no 

 other work of a similar size where structural characters can be so 

 easily appreciated and used for differential purposes. The illus- 

 trations are somewhat coarse, but their help will be appreciated 

 by the young zoologist, and the information afforded is not 

 exclusively for one side only of the English Channel. 



Cries and Call-Notes of Wild Birds. By C. A. Witchell. 



L. Upcott Gill. 



We all hear and, as a rule, enjoy the cries of wild birds; but 

 how few recognize them ; how seldom are they analyzed ; how 



