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1921 .] Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Hingstorf s Himalayan observations. 
[A Naturalist in Himalaya. Ity R W. G. Hingston, M.C., M.B., 
I.M.S. Pp. xii+300; 24 illustr.; 1 map. London (Witherby), 1920. 
8 vo.] 
Captain Hingston is a close observer of nature, and has 
had the good fortune to be stationed in an interesting and 
little-known valley of the Himalayan range. This valley, 
the British territory of Hazara, runs in the form of a wedge 
between the native state of Kashmir and the territory of 
the independent Afghan tribes of the Black Mountain. 
Our previous knowledge of the birds of this area is due to 
the late Major C. H. T. Whitehead, who spent a short time 
at Kagan, in the upper part of the district, and contributed 
a few notes on his visit to 4 The Ibis ’ and f Journal of the 
Bombay Natural History Society/ 
Through Hazara apparently a big stream of migration 
passes in spring and autumn, and it is to be regretted, 
from the point of view of readers of this Journal, that 
Captain Hingston did not pay as much attention to birds 
as he did to ants and spiders. True, he gives us a good 
picture of the local migration from the plains of the Punjab 
to the lower valleys and hills of Hazara, but this is only a 
general sketch with practically no details. 
Like many of us, Captain Hingston has been fascinated 
by the soaring of birds, and has made a special study of it. 
His remarks on the soaring of the Common Kite, or was 
it not rather Milvus melanotis, which take up nearly the 
whole of the single chapter on “ Ornithological Observa¬ 
tions,” will be read with interest. The book is illustrated 
with a number of good photographs, including one of a male 
Paradise Flycatcher in fully-adult plumage. 
Howard on Bird Territories . 
[Territory in Bird-Life. By H. Eliot Howard. With illustrations 
by G. E. Lodge and H. Gronvold. Pp. xiv+308 ; 11 illustr.; 2 plans. 
London (Murray), 1920. 8vo. Price 21s.] 
Most of our readers will remember Mr. Howard’s beautiful 
