Recently published Ornithological Works. 44 7 
in having a larger tarse and longer toes. The throat of P. 
nymph a is more decidedly white ; the green of its mantle is 
somewhat more yellow; and the sanguineous middle line of 
its belly mounts higher. Both want the white crescent on 
the black axillaries, but are otherwise closely allied to the P.- 
coronatus group of India. 
[To be continued.] 
XLIY.— Notices of recently published Ornithological Works. 
Those who know the bulk and cost of our county-histories 
will be thankful to Mr. Mansel-Pleydell for having printed 
in a separate form and octavo size his natural-history contri¬ 
butions to the new edition of Pulteney*s f Dorsetshire/ now 
in course of publication. These consist of a Dorset f Flora/ 
a Dorset f Ornithology/ including a “ List of the rarer birds 
of the County/* and a similar treatise on its f Conchology**. 
Strictly speakings we have only to do with the second of 
them; but the “ Introduction ** to the ‘ Flora * contains a 
good account of the physical geography of the district, which 
deserves the attention of our readers, since too many local 
naturalists are apt to overlook that essential coefficient of all 
Faunas. Dorset has hitherto not been favoured by ornitho¬ 
logists, and no list of its birds has appeared since Pulteney*s 
Catalogue* in 1799 (?) ; while it has been also remarkably 
deficient in well-placed observers, and thus, doubtless, many 
a winged windfall to its coast has escaped enrolment in the 
“ British List.** Portland itself, one would think, should be 
another Heligoland, attracting storm-tossed stragglers from 
afar; yet Portland makes little figure in our author*s work. 
Poole Harbour, with its many bays and backwaters—looking 
from the Lytchett heights more like a West-Indian lagoon 
than any thing else in this island—has, indeed, long been 
famous for the number of rare water-birds which have fallen 
* Flora of Dorsetshire &e. By John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell, B.A., 
F.L.S., F.G.S. London and Blandford, 1874, 8vo, pp. 320. 
Ornithology and Conchology of the County of Dorset. By the same. 
pp. 120. 
