362 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Lack of space forbids us to give details of all the papers, 
but Dr. Butler should be mentioned as contributing two in 
January and February, and Capt. Perreau contributes Some 
Notes on Indian Ornithology ” to the same numbers; while 
Mr. B. B. Horsbrugh gives in September an account of the 
breeding of Turnix lepurana as observed by him in South 
Africa. 
29. Brogger on Birds 3 Bones from the Norwegian Kitchen- 
middens. 
[Vistefundet en seldre stenalders kjokkenmodding fra Jsederen. Av 
A. W. Brogger. Stavanger, 1908. 102 pp., 5 pis.] 
At Viste, in the parish of Rendeberg, on the south¬ 
eastern coast of Norway, not far from Stavanger, the 
remains of an ancient dwelling-house of the older neolithic 
stone-age were discovered in the autumn of 1907. This was 
accompanied by a large kitchen-midden, containing masses 
of shells of the sea-mollusks which had been consumed for 
food. But with these were also exhumed, after a careful 
search, remains of numerous other animals—Mammals, 
Birds, and Fishes. The bird-bones have been examined by 
our Foreign Member, Dr. Winge, who has kindly supplied us 
with a copy of this interesting memoir. They are referred 
to 27 species, nearly all well-known inhabitants of the 
adjacent sea-coast. But amongst them are also numerous 
fragments of the bones of the Great Auk ( Alca impennis ), 
which prove that this bird was used there in past ages as a 
regular article of food. 
The memoir is well illustrated by five lithographic plates 
and numerous text-figures. 
30. Carter on a supposed new Grass-Wren. 
[Description of a supposed new Grass-Wren. By T. Carter, M.B.O.U. 
Viet. Nat. xxv. p. 86.] 
Mr. Carter describes Amytis varia as a new species, 
comparable 1 with A. gigantura Milligan, Viet. Nat. xviii. p. 27, 
but probably different. It is, we suppose, from West 
Australia, but the exact locality is not stated. 
