**• Owing to the pressure on our spacCj the prescribed limits of which we have 

 ah-eady exceeded, we are compelled to postpone for the present our usual " Notices 

 of Recent Ornithological Publications," among which are those of the following : — 



1. English : — Eyton's ' Osteologia Avium ; ' Sclater's edition of Nitzsch's ' Ptery- 

 lography,' translated by Dallas; G. R. Gray's 'Catalogue of GallincB ;' Rodd's 

 ' Ornithology of Cornwall;' BuUmore's 'Cornish Fauna;' J. H. Gurney, jun., on 

 Occurrences of the Grey Phalarope. 



2. French : — Verreaux on New Birds ; Ornithological papers in the ' Revue de 

 Zoologie.' 



3. Swiss : — ' Bulletin de la Societe Ornithologique Suisse,' vol. i. part 2. 



4. Italian: — Cara's ' Osservazioue al Catalogo clal Dottore Salvadori;' Bettoni's 

 ' Uccelli che nidificano in Lombardia,' parts 1-15. 



5. German : — Finsch and Hartlaub, ' Ornithologie der Viti-, Samoa- und Tonga- 

 Inseln;' Hoffmann's ' Die Waldschnepfe.' 



6. Dutch and Belgian : — Schlegel's ' Museum des Pays-Bas,' part 9 ; Finsch's 

 ' Die Papageien ;' * Archives Cosmologiques.' 



7. Norwegian and Swedish: — CoUett's ' Observationer fra Hvaloeme;' Holm- 

 gren's ' Skandinaviens Foglar,' vol. i. ; Westerlund's ' Skandinavisk Oologi.' 



8. American : — Jackson on the habits of Melanerpes formicivorus ; Cassin's 

 ' Third Study of the Icteridce ; ' Lawrence on New American Birds and on New 

 TrochilidcB. 



9. Australian :— Diggles's ' Ornithology of Australia,' parts i. to x. 



Nearly Ready. 



THE BIRDS OE SOUTH AERICA. 



A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF ALL THE KNOWN SPECIES 



OCCUREING SOUTH OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH PARALLEL 



OF LATITUDE. 



EDGAR LEOPOLD LAYARD, F.Z.S., 



CURATOR OP THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM, ETC. 



The study of the Birds of Southern Africa is beset with very great difficulty. No 

 work gives even a bare catalogue of their names ; and the descriptions of the various 

 species inhabiting the Cape Colony are scattered through many different publica- 

 tions, some so expensive as to be beyond the reach of ordinary collectors, while 

 others are journals extending over a long series of years. 



In size the ' Birds of Sojith Africa ' will be similar to Mr. Trimen's ' Rhopalocera 

 Africa Australis* so as to form with it and contemplated works on the Reptilia, &c., 

 a complete South- African Fauna. 



London : Longmans ; Triibner. 



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ORNITHOLOGIE DER VITI-, SAMOA- UND TONGA-INSELN. 

 VoN O. FINSCH UND G. HARTLAUB. 



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