380 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Mrs. Stanley Flower pleads for better surroundings for 
cage-birds, Mrs. Gregory writes on Pheasants and the Jay, 
and G. A. M. furnishes notes of a bird-keeper in Liguria. 
But perhaps we ought to consider as the chief asset in 
these numbers the commencement of a series of articles on 
“ Practical Bird-keeping.” The first, by Dr. Butler, is on 
the “Culture of Finches”; the second, by Mr. W. E. 
Tescliemaker, on “ The British Warblers.” Such articles by 
well-known experts in the art will be of great interest and 
advantage to the avicultural public. 
32. Beetham on the Spoonbill , White Stork , Common and 
Purple Herons. 
[The Home-Life of the Spoonbill, the Stork, and some Herons. 
By Bentley Beetham. London : Witherby & Go., 1910. 8vo, pp. 1-47, 
32 pis.] 
This book is uniform with Mr. Macpherson’s f Home Life 
of a Golden Eagle 3 Ibis/ 1910, p. 207) and similarly illus¬ 
trated. The species treated in it have been more often 
watched at their breeding-quarters than the Eagle, and 
therefore less that is new can be brought forward, but 
Mr. Beetham has studied the birds with the greatest care, 
and has furnished us with a valuable summary of their 
habits, accompanied by excellent photographic reproductions 
of the nests, young, and parent birds under various circum¬ 
stances. The curvature of the mandibles of the Spoonbill, 
and its method of regurgitating food for the young are points 
upon which the author lays considerable stress, while he 
shews that young Storks, on the contrary, are fed with 
disgorged substances. A small tent was used to conceal the 
camera, as is generally found necessary in such work. 
33. British Museum Collectors’ Instructions. 
[British Museum (Natural History). Instructions for Collectors. 
No. 2. Birds. 4th Ed., 1908.] 
This useful little pamphlet gives instructions for skinning 
birds, the instruments required, and the method of deter¬ 
mining the sex. It would have been still more useful if the 
collectors had been urged to procure specimens in all stages 
