744 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
were obtained. These were referred to 613 species, of which 
17 were new to science. 
In the present work we find a popular account of 
Dr. Festa’s travels and adventures, well illustrated by 
numerous figures in the text, and by two maps which shew 
the traveller’s exact routes. There are occasional, but not 
many, allusions to bird-life in the narrative, and we could 
wish that this part of the subject had obtained greater 
attention. 
87. Godman’s ‘ Monograph of the Petrels 3 *. 
[A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares). By F. DuCane 
Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., President of the British Ornithologists’ Union, 
&c. With hand-coloured Plates by J. G. Keulemans. Part V. Witherby 
& Co., May 1910.] 
We have now received the fifth part of this excellent 
work, which completes the Monograph. We have already 
given an account of its origin and plan of its execution in 
our previous notices, and need not repeat what has been 
already plainly stated. To say that the subject is now 
exhausted would not be true. But the Author has gathered 
together all that is yet known about the Tubinares, and 
formed a solid basis for future naturalists to build upon. 
Moreover, he has illustrated his subject by an unequalled 
series of coloured plates, which will be of the greatest value 
to those who are studying the natural history of this difficult 
group. 
Mr. Godman adds to the present part of his work a 
valuable disquisition on the systematic position of the 
Petrels, drawn up by Mr. Pycraft, which merits careful 
study. Their osteological characters, Mr. Pycraft says, 
support the contention that, although their Ciconiiform 
affinities are evident, the Petrels are also allied to the Divers 
and Penguins, but have little to do with the Gulls, as some 
authorities have maintained. 
According to the present work, the Tubinares, as at 
present known, are divisible into four families : Procellariidae, 
* For notice of Part IV., see ‘ Ibis,’ 1909, p. 546. 
