192 Recently published Ornithological Works, 



24. Ernst on the Flora and Fauna of Venezuela. 



[Estudios sobre la Flora y Fauna de Venezuela por A. Ernst. 4to : 

 Caracas, 1877.] 



This series of memoirs of Dr. Ernst, of Caracas — so far as 

 we know, the only representative of biological science in his 

 adopted country — contains a nominal list of the birds of 

 Venezuela, compiled principally from Sclater and Salvin's 

 joint papers on the birds collected in that Republic by Hr. 

 Goering and by Mr. Spence : 556 species are enumerated. 

 Much revision is necessary before the list can be considered 

 as accurate, species having been introduced on the autho- 

 rity of Burmeister^s ' Thiere Brasiliens ' and Gray's ' Hand- 

 list.' 



25. Spence' s ' Land of Bolivar.' 



[The Land of Bolivar, or War, Peace, and Adventure in the Republic 

 of Venezuela. By James Mudie Spence, F.R.G.S. With Maps and Illus- 

 trations. 2 vols. 8vo. Loudon: Sampson Low 4& Co. 1878.] 



Mr. S pence's volumes contain much that is of interest to 

 the naturalist concerning the varied and little-known Re- 

 public of Venezuela, which is so accessible from our shores, 

 and yet attracts so few visitors. At the same time the 

 greater part of the book is taken up by personal adventures, 

 politics, and statistics. Mr. Spence reprints in his appendix 

 the paper (published P. Z. S. 1873, p. 511) on the birds which 

 he collected, and gives (vol. i. pp. 266, 267) woodcuts of the 

 two new species, Lochmias sororia* and Crypturus cervini- 

 ventris, which we owe to his exertions. 



26. Malm's ' Fauna of Gothenburg and Bohusland.' 



[Goteborgs och Bohuslans Fauna. Ryggradsdjuren ; af A. W. Malm. 

 8vo : Goteborg, 1877]. 



This volume gives us an account of the vertebrated animals 



* Specimens of this species have since been acquired by Salvin and 

 Godman from Columbia and Bolivia ; and there can be little doubt that 

 the bird from Peru, described by Dr. Cabanis as L. obsmratn (J. f. Oru. 

 1873, p. 65), belongs to the same species. The latter name has priority 

 over the one given by us. — Edu..] 



