1921 .] Recently'published Ornithological Works. 839 
the birds of Juan Fernandez and Easter Islands in the 
south-eastern Pacific. The editor also writes on a Green¬ 
finch X Goldfinch hybrid, and Mr. K. Kolthoff on another 
between Dryobates leuconotus and D. major. Mr. S. Bergmann 
contributes some notes on the birds of Egypt which he made 
while on his wav to Kamchatka to collect for the Stockholm 
Museum. There is an obituary notice of Prof. J. A. Palmen 
(1845-1919), that well-known Finnish ornithologist who 
first drew up a list of the probable flight-lines of migrating 
birds, and another of Prof. Tycho Tullberg of Upsala, who 
died at the age of 77 in 1920. llis mother was a great 
grand-daughter of Linnaeus. There are portraits with both 
these articles. It is interesting to note that a Starling 
marked in Sweden 8 July, 1915, was captured near 
Middlesbrough in Yorkshire on the 1 st of February, 1918. 
Le Gerfaut. 
[Le Gerfaut, Revue beige d’Ornithologie. Publiee sous la direction 
de M. Marcel de Contreras. 5 e -9 e Annee 1919 and 10 e Annee 1920.] 
We have now received the complete set of the 4 Gerfaut 3 
for 1919 and 1920, the first two numbers of which were 
noticed in 4 The Ibis’ for 1919 (p. 782), and must briefly 
review the rest of the volumes. M. L. Coopman discusses 
the Pipits, their migrations from eastern Europe and their 
occurrence in Belgi urn, especially that of Anthus cervinus, 
and Dr. Mairlot has a good article on the habits of the 
Yellow Bunting. 
In an early number of the magazine, that for May 1912, 
the first capture of Brunnich’s Guillemot in Belgium is 
recorded. This bird, which was taken at Ostend, turns 
out to have been a young Razorbill, and the correction will 
be found on p. 87 of the 1919 volume. 
'the 1920 volume opens with a portrait and a eulogy of 
M. Ivan Braconier, a leading Belgian ornithologist, who 
was unfortunately killed in a motor accident. Another 
article of interest is a comparison of the birds of Devonshire 
with those of Belgium by M. Th. Bisschop, who during 
the German invasion found a home at Torquay. The 
