562 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 
amalgamation with the Avicultural Society, which was 
advocated some little time previously. 
In addition to the usual photographs the two volumes 
contain a number of very artistic drawings of birds from 
life by Mrs. A. M. Cook. We should like to draw special 
attention to those of the Hornbills and Toucans appearing 
in the numbers for December 1919 and January 1920. 
Bulletin of the Essex County Ornithological Club . 
[Bulletin of the Essex County Ornithological Club of Massachusetts 
for 1919 and 1920.] 
Essex County lies to the north of Boston, and with its 
ancient town of Salem is one of the oldest and earliest 
settlements in the United States. The ornithological club, 
which was formed in 1916 by the bird-lovers of Salem and 
the surrounding districts, now finds itself sufficiently firmly 
established to,, warrant the publication of an annual report 
ov bulletin, and we have been favoured with copies of the 
first two numbers. The editor is Mr. A. P. Stubbs, and 
he has collected together a number of short papers and 
articles dealing with local avifauna of the district by 
Dr. Townsend, Mr. E. H. Eorbush, Mr. C. J. Maynard, and 
other observers. One of the chief features of the club is an 
annual excursion in May along the Ipswich river. This has 
taken place regularly for thirteen years, and on these occa¬ 
sions altogether 136 species of birds have been identified ; 
of these an annotated list occupies some twenty pages of 
the 1919 Report, and shows the care with which work 
of this kind is carried out in the United States. 
Journal fur Ornithologie. 
[Journal fur Ornithologie. 68 Jahrgang for 1920; 4 parts and a 
supplement.] 
The longer articles in the last volume of the 4 Journal 
fur Ornithologie 3 deal with observations made during the 
war. Messrs. Bacmeister and Kieinschmidt conclude a long- 
paper on the birds of north-eastern France, begun in the 
