Recently published Ornithological Works. 193 
The natural features of the above district, including the 
opposite shores of the Firth of Forth, present considerable 
variety, which will account for the number of species (152) 
mentioned in the list. The author's observations extend 
over more than thirty years, and are supplemented by notes 
on the Waders and Water-fowl of the Firth by Mr. Harvie- 
Brown. The remark implying that the breeding-range of the 
Stock Dove in Scotland was not known to extend beyond 
Dunkeld, was probably written nearly two years ago, and 
Mr. Dalgleish is doubtless by this time well aware that the 
bird nests in the rabbit-warrens near Nairn and Forres on 
the sandy shores of the Moray Firth. 
39. Des Murs on European Birds. 
[Musee Ornithologique Illustre.—1. Les Oiseaux de Rivage et de 
Terre; 2. Les Oiseaux d’Eau:—Classification, Synonymie, Description, 
Mceurs des Oiseaux d’Europe : leurs (Eufs, leurs Nids. Par 0. Des Murs. 
2 vols. Royal 8vo. Paris : 1886.] 
These two imposing volumes are illustrated by 145 “ chro- 
motypographies," taken, with scarcely an exception, from the 
illustrations to Morris's f British Birds ’ and the f Nests and 
Eggs of British Birds,' and Bree’s f Birds of Europe not 
observed in the British Islands.' W r e have seldom seen 
appropriation accompanied by so many blunders in the 
taking. The brown egg of the Common Bittern is attri¬ 
buted to the Little Bittern, and vice versa; the pale blue egg 
of the Night-Heron is given to the Spoonbill, while the 
egg of the latter is placed under the Glossy Ibis; the eggs 
of the Curlew and the Whimbrel are transposed, as are those 
of the Greenshank and the Dusky Redshank, and so on ad 
infinitum. The letterpress is in no respect an advance upon 
Degland and Gerbe's f Oiseaux d'Europe,' published nearly 
twenty years ago. We are unfeignedly grieved to see such 
a book associated with the name of the author of the 
f Oologie,' a work in which an attempt was made to classify 
birds by their eggs. 
40. Finsch and Meyer on new Paradise-birds. 
[Vogel von Neu Guinea, zumeist aus der Alpenregion am Sudostab- 
