708 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
After the Persian Introduction, the treatise begins by 
considering the “ Yellow-eyed Birds-of-Prey ” —Goshawks, 
Sparrow-Hawks, the Serpent-Eagle, the Eagle-Owl, the 
Lammergeier, the Osprey, Harriers, and so forth. The 
second part treats of the “ Dark-eyed Birds-of-Prey 93 —that 
is, the remaining species used for hawking. In this section 
is included much information of a curious character on the 
capture of the birds, their training and management, their 
food and diseases, their parasites and the like ; the whole 
composing a treatise which is most interesting to read, and 
is full of that “ Sage Advice 99 which is the heading of one 
of the chapters. 
Many illustrations make the book still more attractive, 
some being facsimiles, some copies of curious Persian 
paintings, and some depicting the birds themselves. 
100. Revue Franqaise d’ Ornithologie. 
[Bevue Fran^aise d’Omithologie. Scientifique et Pratique. Publiee 
par M. Louis Denise, 14 Hue Antoine-Boucher, Paris. Nos. 1-4.] 
The institution of a new Bird-Journal will interest all 
readers of 6 The Ibis/ and we have much pleasure in calling 
attention to the first four numbers of the 4 Revue Franchise 
d’Ornitliologie/ which has been lately started. If we 
understand rightly, it is proposed to comprise in it articles 
on birds both of a scientific and of a practical character, 
and M. Menegaux, the Assistant for Ornithology at the 
National Museum in the Jardin des Plantes, is ready to 
receive such communications at 55 Rue de Buffon, Paris. 
We will say a few words about the principal articles in 
the four numbers already issued. 
In the first part (May 1909), after a short preface on 
the objects and plan of the new periodical, we find an essay 
by M. Raspail on the utility of the Rook (Corvus frugilegus ), 
which we are told is seriously menaced in some parts of 
France, while M. Simon, a well-known authority on the 
Trochilidse, commences a series of notes on that favourite 
group of birds. 
