110 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Munden House^ and elsewhere. These raise the number of 

 species belonging to the Hertfordshire avifauna to 1 79. 



14. Meyer on some Birds from New Guinea. 



[Notiz iiber Lopliorina minor (Rams.) imd Euth/rhijncha fulvigiila, 

 Schl. Von A. B. Meyer. Zeitsclir. f. d. ges. Ornitliologie, 1886, p. 180.] 



Dr. Meyer shows that the expanded neck-collar of Lopho- 

 rina minor, Ramsay, has quite a different form from that of 

 L. superba. He also describes the differences between the 

 specimens of Euthyrhyncha fulvigula recently obtained by 

 Hunstein in the Horseshoe Mountains of S.E. New Guinea 

 and a typical example of the same bird from the Arfak 

 Mountains in the north-west of that island. 



15. Milne-Edwards and Grandidier's ' Madagascar.* 



[Histoire Physique, Natui-elle et Politique de Madagascar. Publico 

 par Alfred Grandidier. Vol. XII. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Par 

 MM. Alpli. Milne-Edwards et Alf. Grandidier. Tome I., Texte, i. 2" partie. 

 Vol. XIV. Tome III., Atlas, ii., 2' partie. Vol. XV. Tome IV. 

 Atlas, iii. 4to. Paris: 1881-85. Imprimerie Nationale.] 



The ornithological portion of the great work on Mada- 

 gascar, of which we have already spoken (Ibis, 1878, p. 180^ 

 and 1880, p. 136) , is now complete. It consists of one volume 

 of text (770 pp.) and three of plates (upwards of 300), many 

 of the latter being devoted to osteology, anatomy, points of 

 structure, and oology. The figures of the whole birds are 

 drawn by Keulemans and nicely coloured. 



As summarized by our authors, the avifauna of Mada- 

 gascar contains 238 species. Of these there are 89 of more 

 or less extended distribution, leaving 149 as the characteristic 

 forms of Madagascar. Of these 149, 4 have a considerable 

 range, 9 are of African origin, 7 Asiatic or Oceanic, and no 

 less than 129 are absolutely restricted to the island. But the 

 extraordinary point is, that of the genera to which these 129 

 species are referred, 35 are generic types unknown elsewhere. 

 Thus we have an island with more than half the known 

 species of its avifauna peculiar to it, and a large proportion 



