NO naturalist can peruse the pages of the handsome volume which contains the record of the sporting journeys of the late Crown Prince Rudolph, without sincere feelings of pity and regret. Here was a young man, whose scientific instincts were of the truest, and for whom, in every way, a splendid future might have been predicted, whose opportunities for the advancement of science were unlimited; and it is most sad that so promising a life should have been cut short by the decrees of fate. One-third of the volume before us is devoted to“Fifteen Days on the Danube,” and the narrative affords a striking experience among the varied forms of bird-life which are to be met with on that famous river in April. This is a really valuable sketch of the ornithology of the district, and will be useful to everyone who is interested in the distribution of European birds. The same may be said of the chapters entitled “Sketches of Sport in Hungary” Notes on Sport and Ornithology. By His Imperial and Royal Highness the late Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria. Translated, with the Author's permission, by C. G. Danford. Pp. i.–viii., 1–648. (London: Gurney and Jackson, 1889.) Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa. From the Letters and Journals of the late Frank Oates, F.R.G.S. Edited by C. G. Oates Second Edition. Pp. i.–xlix., 1–433. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1889.) Index Generum Avium. A List of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds. By F. H. Waterhouse., A.L.S. Pp. i.–v., 1–240. (London: R. H. Porter, 1889.) The Birds of Oxfordshire. By O. V. Aplin. With a Map. Pp. i.–vii., 1–217. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889.) The Birds of Berwickshire; with Remarks on their Local Distribution, Migration, and Habits, and also on the Folk-lore, Proverbs, Popular Rhymes, and Sayings connected with them. By George Muirhead Vol. I., pp. i.–xxvi., 1–334. (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889.) The Birds in my Garden. By W. T. Greene (London: Religious Tract Society, 1889.)