378 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
plate) of Podica peter si, from the Umguza River near 
Bulawayo, a bird whose nesting-habits have not previously 
been recorded; notes on Birds collected or observed at the 
Khami River in Matabeleland, and others on those obtained 
by the writer in the north of the same country, including 
the new species Poliospiza mennelli ( cf . Bull. B. O. C. vol. xxi. 
p. 62, 1908). 
In the “Occasional Notes ” will be found an interesting 
letter from Mr. Bucknill, now resident in Cyprus, on the 
Birds of that island, and a note on the colouring-matter of 
the remiges of Turacus corythaix by Mr. Draper. 
Lastly, the Supplement consists of Pamphlet No. 1 of 
the Bird Protection Committee, entitled “ The South African 
Birds-of-Prey, their Economic Relations to Man,” a par¬ 
ticularly interesting sketch of the subject being elaborated 
at some length, with illustrations, by that well-known South 
African ornithologist Mr. Alwin Haagner. 
46. TJssher on Irish Birds. 
[National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin. General Guide to the 
Natural History Collections. A List of Irish Birds, shewing the Species 
contained in the National Collection. By Richard J. Ussher. Dublin, 
1908. 54 pp.] 
No more capable person could have been chosen to 
compile this List than Mr. Ussher, the well-known joint- 
author of the ‘ Birds of Ireland/ and a worthy successor 
of A. G. More, who issued a similar catalogue in 1885, 
followed by a second edition in 1890. The records have 
been made as complete as possible, but we are informed 
that the Little Bunting and Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler 
have been added to the Irish List since this pamphlet was 
published, and also that the Reed-Warbler has been taken on 
the coast. 
Mr. Ussher is careful to include in square brackets all 
the species which he considers either doubtful or, as in the 
case of American land-birds, to have probably received 
“ assisted passages,” and we notice that he thus brackets 
the recent record of the Canadian Crane. The reader is 
