368 Recently published Ornithological Works, 
Mozambique) have combined to form a common Bureau 
with head-quarters at Pretoria, and this is their third Annual 
Report. 
Various means have been employed for the purpose of 
destroying the swarms of these terrible insects but, so far as 
one can judge from the Report, the most efficacious agencies 
for this purpose are locust-eating birds. 
The leading Locust-birds are undoubtedly the White Stork 
(Ciconia alba) and the Pratincole ( Glareola melanoptera ), 
which are generally known in South Africa as the Greater 
and the Smaller Locust-bird. 
Other birds which devour large numbers of Locusts are 
the Kestrels ( Tinnunculus naumanni, T. rupicola, and T. rupi - 
coloides ) and the Kite ( Milvus cegyptius ), while the White- 
bellied Stork ( Abdimia abdimii) , though a somewhat rare 
species, ranks very high in favour. 
Starlings of all kinds, especially the Wattled Starling 
(.Dilophus carunculatus *), Guinea Fowls, and Francolins 
assist in the work of destruction. 
The reports of the Committee urge the importance of 
the most careful protection by law of all the Locust-eating 
birds throughout South Africa, and insist that the laws on 
this subject, when enacted, should be strictly enforced. 
44. Sharpe’s Hand-list of Birds, Vol. V. 
[A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds. (Nomenclator 
Avium turn fossilium turn viventium.) By R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., 
Assistant Keeper, Department of Zoology, British Museum. Volume V. 
London, 1909.] 
In January 1904, we wrote a notice of the fourth volume 
of Sharpe's f Hand-list.' Most fortunately for the progress 
of our Science, Sharpe lived to complete this important 
work by the issue of the fifth and last volume, which is now 
before us. The Hand-list was planned and commenced in 
1898, and the first volume published in 1899, so that it 
has occupied ten years of hard labour, having been composed 
* See Sclater & Stark, B. S. Afr. i. p. 24. 
