Recently published Ornithological Works. 545 
Montrose, the latter being the second case on record for 
North Britain. The minor notices are valuable, but chiefly of 
local interest. 
70. Arrigoni degli Oddi on Veronese Ornithology . 
[Materiali per una Fauna Ornitologica Veronese con note di Vittorio 
Dal Nero del Prof. E. Arrigoni degli Oddi. Atti R. 1st. Veneto Sci., 
Lett, ed Arti, lviii. pt. 2, and Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. xxxviii. fasc. 1. 
Note Ornitologiche della Provincia di Verona del Socio Prof. E. 
Arrigoni degli Oddi.] 
These memoirs contain the results of the author’s continued 
studies of everything connected with the avifauna of his 
native province, in compiling which he has received great 
assistance from Sign. Vittorio Dal Nero, of Verona. In the 
first of them a description of the physical districts of the 
Province of Verona is followed by a complete bibliography 
of the literature on the subject, an account of the special 
collections of the birds of the district, a description of the 
various modes of shooting and capturing birds practised, and 
a complete nominal list of the species, 330 in number. In 
the second memoir is a long series of field-notes on the 330 
species, containing many particulars of interest to the student 
of Italian birds. 
71. ‘The Auk.’ 
[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology.. Vol. xvii. Nos. 1 
and 2, January and April 1900.] 
The coloured frontispiece to the January number illus¬ 
trates a paper by Dr. J. A. Allen on the Little Black Rail 
(.Porzana jamaicensis), a bird which was figured first by 
Edwards in 1760, and later on by Audubon. It has been 
recorded as breeding in the island to which it owes its name, 
as well as in several districts east of the Mississippi and 
South Connecticut; but, owing in some degree to its skulking 
habits, it has always been considered a numerically scarce 
species. Some supplementary remarks by Mr. Witmer Stone 
are to be found in the April number. Mr. A. H. Norton 
describes the perfectly developed plumage—especially the 
