Recently published Ornithological Works. 113 



that of T. obscurus in having the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 greyer, the throat is clear yellow and not chestnut as in the 

 latter, and the feathers of the flanks are of a rich red-brown 

 with tawny margins, 



20. Oustalet on Birds from Somali-land. 



[Catalogue des Oiseaux rapport6s par M. G. Revoil de son deuxieme 

 voyage aux Pays des Qomalis (Afrique Orientale), Par M. E. Oustalet. 

 Bibl. de I'Ecole de Hautes £tudes, Sect. d. Sc. Nat. xxxi. no. 10 

 (188G).] 



M. Oustalet gives an account of the collection of birds 

 made in Somali-land by M. Georges Revoil during his second 

 expedition to that country in 1884. It contains examples of 

 73 species, besides others of wide distribution. A remarkable 

 discovery is that of a new species of the genus Machirhamphus 

 {M. revoili), intermediate in some respects between M. alcinus 

 and M. anderssoni. Pyrrhulauda signata (allied to P. verti- 

 calis) is also described as probably new. 



21. Pelzeln and Kohl on Birds from Ceylon. 



[Ueber sine Sendung von Saugethieren und Vogeln aus Ceylon. Von 

 August V. Pelzeln und Franz Fr. Kohl. Verhandl. k. k. zool.-bot. 

 GeseUsch. Wien, 1885, p. 525.] 



The collection, sent to the Imperial Museum of Vienna 

 by Herr Gr. Hiitterolt, of Trieste, contained examples of 

 39 species of birds. A few observations and field-notes are 

 added to the list of names. 



22. Ridgway on Venezuelan Birds. 



[Descriptions of some new Species of Birds, supposed to be from the 

 interior of Venezuela. By Robert Ridgway. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 

 p. 92.] 



The specimens here described are of somewhat novel origin. 

 They are skins formerly attached to a bead-belt, supposed to 

 have come from some portion of the Upper Orinoco region. 

 Two species are described as new, Pyroderus masoni and 

 Aulacorhamphus dimidiatus. Examples of a third species are 



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