388 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
We can cordially recommend this book to the attention of 
those who love birds, and are anxious to encourage them in 
their gardens and parks. 
44. Howard on the Warblers. 
[The British Warblers. A History with Problems of their Lives. By 
H. Eliot Howard. Part 5. London, 1910. 8vo. R. H. Porter.] 
We have now before us another part of Mr. Howard's 
monograph on the Warblers, once more tilled with beautiful 
plates and uncoloured photogravures (cf. ‘ Ibis, 7 1910, p. 363). 
The letterpress is almost entirely devoted to the Reed- 
Warbler, of which a full and exact account is given from the 
time it arrives upon our shores until its departure, with many 
interesting notes upon its breeding-habits, nesting-places, 
and the position of the nest. Its migration is also considered, 
and, as usual, the author enters into a discussion of the 
reasons for the various habits, and is not content merely to 
give the facts, so that we have many pages of most interesting 
matter. The only other species given in this part is 
Ilypolais polyglotta, but the illustrations are of the Great 
Reed-Warbler and the Aquatic Warbler, as well as of the two 
species mentioned, and maps are furnished of the geographical 
distribution of the Reed-, Marsh-, and Great Reed-Warblers. 
45. Innes Bey on the Birds of Egypt. 
[Dr. W. Innes Bey: Avifaune de l’Egypte. l e Partie. I. Turdidse, 
Timeliidse, et Muscicapidse. Cairo, 1910.] 
It is quite true that, as Dr. Innes Bey states, Shelley's 
‘ Birds of Egypt' is out of print, and that it was published 
nearly 40 years ago, but we are not sure that the ‘ Avifaune 
de l'Egypte,' if completed in the style of the first part, which 
is now before us, is likely to supply the void thus caused. 
Dr. Innes Bey is, we believe, a resident in Egypt, and should 
surely have some knowledge of the habits and localities of its 
birds from his own personal observation before he begins to 
write on them. If this is so, he has not treated the readers 
of his pages with much of it, nor does he even take notice 
of the information on the subject supplied by others. 
Under the head of each species we find a long French 
description, a few synonyms, not always correctly quoted, 
