388 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
the feathers have an organic cause which regulates their 
shape and their successive alteration. There is a fine 
coloured frontispiece of Pernis celebensis and Spizaetus 
lanceolatus, and many excellent woodcuts embellish the 
text. 
52. Meinertzhagen and Hornby on Lapland. 
[Bird Life in an Arctic Spring. The Diaries of Dan Meinertzhagen 
and R. P. Hornby. 8vo. London, 1899.] 
Parental affection has willed that the diary of Dan Mein¬ 
ertzhagen should he printed unrevised, just as it remained 
when death carried off one of our most promising young 
naturalists, and no one who knew the accomplished 
draughtsman and attractive enthusiast can fail to sympathize 
with the desire. Under the circumstances, the work must 
not be seriously criticised; but we can cordially recommend 
it to all lovers of nature, as showing the foundation upon 
which, if he had been spared, a young genius would have 
raised an enduring edifice. Some of the many illustrations 
are admirable, and nearly equal to those by Wolf at a similar 
age. 
53. Munich Ornithological Union , Annual Reports , 1897-8. 
[Jakresbericht des Ornitbologiscben Vereins Miinchen, fiir 1897 und 
1898. Herausgegeben vom derzeitigen Vorsitzenden Dr. med. C. Parrot. 
8vo. Miinchen, 1899.] 
Munich has always seemed to us rather “out in the cold” 
as regards Ornithology, for, except Spix’s types, mostly in a 
wretched and neglected condition, there was little, that we 
knew of, to attract the bird-lover to the capital of Bavaria. 
This has now, however, an Ornithological Union, and two 
years’ of its f ‘ Proceedings ” are reported in the present 
volume, which contains several papers of considerable interest, 
mostly relating to the birds of the country. Dr. C. Parrot 
appears to have been the worthy founder of the institution, 
and is the editor of its journal. 
