548 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 
reproduced by direct photography and coloured by hand. 
The third and fourth fascicules contain supplementary lists 
of birds in the Museum collection, and photographs of 
selected mounted specimens, also coloured by hand. The 
whole work is a monument to the industry of our fellow- 
member, and will be undoubtedly of great value to all 
students of Chinese birds. 
Griscom and Nichols on the Seaside Sparrows. 
[A Revision of the Seaside Sparrows. By Ludlow Griscom and 
J. T. Nichols. Abstr. Proc. Linn. Soc. New York, no. 32, 1920, 
pp. 18-30.] 
The Seaside Sparrows are a rather unobtrusive little 
group of Fringillidse included in the genus Passerherbulus, 
and confined, as their name implies, to the salt-marshes 
along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. 
The authors had the advantage of examining nearly 
700 specimens, and it took them two months to arrive 
at their final conclusions. They recognize three species, 
one of which, P. mirabilis , can be divided into seven local 
races. Two of these are new and described here : P. m. 
juncicola from north-west Florida, collected by the senior 
author, which originally set him on the task of rearrange¬ 
ment, and P. m. howelli from Alabama. 
Gurney on Norfolk Ornithologists. 
[Presidential Address to the Members of the Norfolk and Norwich 
Naturalists’ Society at their 51st Annual Meeting. By J. H. Gurney, 
Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. xi. 1919-20, pp. 1-22.] 
In his address to the Norfolk Naturalists’ Society, 
Mr. Gurney, who has occupied the Presidential Chair 
for four years, chose as his subject the lives and labours 
of several of the more eminent ornithologists of East 
Anglia, among whom the best known were: Henry Ste¬ 
venson, author of 4 The Birds of Norfolk,’ who died in 
1888 ; Alfred Newton ; Thomas Southwell, who completed 
Stevenson’s work after his death ; Edward Clough Newton, 
the falconer; and, finally, Mr. Gurney’s own father, John 
