360 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
(Mr. Brook), Hyphantornis spilonotus (Mr. Holden), Or - 
tygospiza polygona (Mr. Phillipps), Guiraca cyanea and Chera 
progne (Mr. Teschemaker), and Chrysotis bahamensis (Mr. 
Bonhote) ; while Mr. Hopkinson gives an account of 
Pceocephalus fuscicollis both in captivity and in the wild 
state in West Africa. 
Finally, Major Jones describes the “eclipse plumage” of 
the female of Casarca variegata of New Zealand, Mr. Astley 
writes on a cross between the Australian Crimson and Star 
Finches, and the Editor contributes further notes on Indian 
Birds, and on two of the Anatidce. 
31. Dawson and Bowles on the Birds of Washington. 
[.The Birds of Washington : a complete scientific and popular account of 
the 37 2 Species of Birds found in the State. By William Leon Dawson, 
A.M., B.D., of Seattle, assisted by John Hooper Bowles of Tacoma. 
Two Vols. 4to. Seattle: The Occidental Publishing- Co., 1909.] 
Two handsome quarto volumes, which have lately reached 
us, contain a well written and profusely illustrated account 
of the birds of the State of Washington. This is one 
of the Pacific States occupying a large area (more than 
twice the size of Ireland) in the extreme North-western 
corner of the Great Eepublic, and is of special interest to 
Englishmen, as being closely adjacent to British Columbia, 
-which it borders on the south. In fact we suspect that the 
Avifauna of the State of Washington and of that part of the 
Dominion of Canada called “ British Columbia ” are nearly 
identical, and as, so far as we know, there is no special work 
on the birds of British Columbia, we ought to thank our 
American friends very much for preparing this excellent 
treatise on the birds of the adjoining and similar district. 
The two volumes, as we have already said, are “ pro¬ 
fusely illustrated.” More than three hundred “original 
half-tones” of birds and their nests, eggs, and favourite 
haunts, chiefly derived from photographs taken by the authors 
themselves or their friends, ornament these pages, besides 
many other drawings in the text and a series of coloured 
plates prepared by Mr. Allan Brooks. The last named are. 
