1921 .] Recently published Ornithological Works. 167' 
Mr. Ogilvie's views on the Wild Birds Protection Act 
and the anomalies which he cites may be commended to 
the Standing Committee recently chosen to advise the 
Home Secretary on this controversial subject. 
A delightful description of Mr. Ogilvie's first meeting 
with procession ary caterpillars ( Cnethocampa pityocampa) 
in southern France, though hardly within the scope of this 
review, serves to show that he was a naturalist wdiose 
interests were not cramped within the narrow limits of a 
collector's horizon. 
In his chapter on Wild Geese we would specially draw 
attention to plates iv. and v., depicting the colours of the 
soft parts of Anser cinereus and A. albifrons , from coloured 
drawings done by the author immediately after death ; the 
colouring there produced is admittedly different from plates 
usually accepted as correctly portraying the soft parts 
(not excepting Alpheraky's celebrated work). Mr. Ogilvie’s 
remarks .on this subject are well worthy of careful study. 
That Ogilvie was a keen collector is perhaps to put it 
too mildly, and in this connection his carefully considered 
remarks on pp. 12 and 13 on the shooting or collecting of 
rare wanderers will provide food for reflection and some 
for criticism; but it must be remembered that Ogilvie 
made exceptionally good use of every rare bird he shot, 
and judged from his own standpoint, his arguments are 
perfectly sound. No finer working series of British 
Birds has ever been made, as the reviewer can testify from 
personal examination of the Ogilvie Collection in the 
British Museum. 
In a book in which accuracy seems to be the keynote, 
it seems a pity that the Latin names occasionally employed 
should not, in a number of cases, have Bben brought up 
to date : for instance, on p. 107, out of four of the scientific 
names there mentioned, three are incorrect according to 
modern nomenclatural methods. An editorial note to this 
effect w r ould have been a simple matter. Perhaps the editor 
has long since given up attempting to march with the 
constant changes in nomenclature to which we are subjected. 
