744 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 
Perhaps the most striking contribution is that of Mr. Edgar 
Chance, who again, for the third year in succession, watched 
through May and June a female Cuckoo which haunted 
a small gorse-ciad common in Worcestershire. He believes 
that this one individual laid 21 eggs at intervals of about 
48 hours each between May 13 and June 27 in the nests of 
Meadow-Pipits, of which there were nine pairs inhabiting 
the common. The Pipits built thirty nests altogether, and 
this it appears was brought about by destroying the nest 
after the Cuckoo had deposited her egg in it, so as to 
arrange for fresh nests to be ready for the Cuckoo at a 
subsequent date. Mr. Chance has described his observa¬ 
tions, stated his case, and drawn his conclusions with great 
clearness. We understand that during the present year he 
has again been at work, and has taken a series of moving 
pictures ” which will be shown to the members of the 
B. O. C. during the coming winter. 
Mr. C. B. Ticehurst contributes a series of articles on the 
history of birds now very rare or extinct in Kent, such as 
the Kite, Buzzard, Swan, Great Bustard, and Crane; he has 
obtained a great deal of information from the study of old 
books and manuscripts. Mr. J. K. Nash writes on the 
occurrence of the Bee-eater in Midlothian, and how the 
pair observed were on the point of nesting when the female 
was captured by a local gardener; and Mr. F. N. Ciiasen 
gives an account of the nesting of the Lesser Kestrel in 
Macedonia. 
Among the illustrated articles are a series by Miss E. L. 
Turner, who has taken her camera to the sand-dunes of 
Holland and has brought back beautiful examples of her 
skill, illustrating the Black-tailed Godwit, the Black Tern, 
the Buff, and the Avocet; while Mr. T. Lewis contributes 
notes on the nest of the Little Tern on the coast of Norfolk, 
illustrated with exquisite photographs of the sitting female 
being fed by the male. 
Mr. Witherby himself discusses the occurrence of the 
Spotted Eagle and the Steppe Buzzard in the British Isles, 
and comes to the conclusion that all the records of the 
