Recently published Ornithological Works. 381 
We will now add one or two remarks, as we turn over 
the pages of Dr. Van Oort’s paper. 
Two specimens of Gyps fulvus have been killed in Holland, 
and help to authenticate the occurrence of the single British 
example. 
Dr. Yan Oort recognises three forms of Parus palustris as 
found in Holland, and calls them Parus communis longi - 
rostris, P. montanus salicarius , and P. montanus borealis. 
According to Baron Snouckaert a specimen of the last-named 
race has been obtained in North Brabant. Mr. Ogilvie- 
Grant has lately recorded its occurrence in England (Bull. 
B. O. C. vol. xxiii. p. 34). 
Our author refers all the Dutch Creepers of which he 
has specimens at Leyden to Certhia brachydactyla. 
An example of Emberiza leucocephala, said to have been 
captured alive on May 3rd, 1873, and subsequently kept in 
the Zoological Garden at Rotterdam, is now in the Leyden 
Museum. We believe that a single specimen of this 
eastern form of Emberiza palustris has recently been obtained 
in Great Britain (see Bull. B. 0. C. vol. xxi. p. 101). 
50. Verner on the Wild Birds of Spain. 
[My Life among the Wild Birds of Spain. By Colonel Willoughby 
Verner (late Rifle Brigade). London : John Bale, Sons, and 
Danielsson, Ltd., 1909. 1 vol., large 8vo.] 
All bird-lovers—especially if they happen to be, or have 
been, birds’-nesters—-will, we think, be delighted with 
Col. Yerner’s volume, which gives us the chief experiences 
of a life devoted to bird-hunting, profusely illustrated by 
the facile pencil and ready camera of the talented author. 
Of narratives of the pursuit and destruction of the larger 
game-animals we have had a large supply of late years. 
We confess to be nearly satiated with these tales of 
slaughter, although there is often much to be learned by the 
Naturalist from their perusal. But Col. Yerner’s book is 
quite of a different character. Yery rarely does he take 
the life of a parent-bird, although he helps himself to the 
eggs when they are specially required for his cabinet. In 
