174 Recently published Ornithological Works . 
Northern Mongolia and the northern parts of Transbaicalia. 
He first gives a few particulars about the thirty localities 
in which Mr. Bamberg collected and illustrates them by 
some photographic pictures, beginning at Kiaclita and 
ending at Urga. He also mentions the most characteristic 
birds of each station. The specimens are referred to about 
75 species, of which four are provided with new names :—- 
Garrulus glandarius bambergi , Saxicola oenanthe argentea, 
Dendrocopus major mongolus , and Upupa epops saturata. 
We observe that our Common Grey Flycatcher is here called 
(e Muscicapa ficedula neumanni” ! We may remark that 
a better name for it is Muscicapa grisola, by which it has 
been known for the past one hundred and fifty years. It 
is probable, we admit, that the Muscicapa ficedula of 
Linnaeus’s tenth edition was based on a Grey Flycatcher, 
but it is by no means certain. Dr. Hartert is doubtful 
on the subject (Vog. pal. Faun. i. p. 475). 
Mr. Bamberg secured a male specimen of Micropalama 
taczanowskia in full breeding plumage at Bura in May, 
1908 ( cf . also f Ibis/ 1909, p. 418, pi. vii.). 
17. MacGillivray on the Life of William MacGillivray. 
[Life of William MacGillivray. By William MacGillivray, W.S., 
with a Scientific Appreciation by J. Arthur Thomson. London : John 
Murray, 1910. 8vo, pp. i-xiii, 1-222.] 
On the occasion of the erection of a monument to 
William MacGillivray at Edinburgh and a memorial tablet 
at Aberdeen, the author of this work prepared a short 
sketch of his relation’s life for private circulation. This has 
now been expanded into the present volume, as no detailed 
biography of the great ornithologist has been written since 
his death. At this distance of time we are apt to forget 
the services that MacGillivray rendered to science, and 
especially to our branch of it, not only by his careful 
and accurate work and the instruction which he bestowed 
on his students, but by his researches into the true methods 
of classification. He was the first writer in Britain to 
point out the necessity for taking into account the internal 
