244 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



sion of the fourth meeting of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists^ Union; and we note with pleasure the amount of 

 energy in collecting displayed on the other side of the water. 

 Mr. M. A. Frazar is on his way to explore the peninsula of 

 Lower California and the adjacent islands for Mr. Brewster; 

 Mr. Charles H. Townsend has sailed for Yucatan under the 

 auspices of the U.S. Fish Commission; and Mr. Herbert H. 

 Smith has returned from Brazil with about 7000 specimens 

 of 450 species, principally from the little-known Brazilian 

 Province of Matto Grosso, on the head waters of the Para- 

 guay River. 



33. Barboza da Bocage on Diipont's Lark in Portugal. 

 [Note siir la decouverte en Portugal cl'une variety de la Certhilauda 



duponti. Par J. V. Barboza du Bocage. Jorn. Soc. Lisboa, no. xliv. 

 p. 3 (1887).] 



The discovery of a supposed variety of Dupont^s Lark, 

 apparently resident on the south side of the Tagus, opposite 

 Lisbon, is very interesting. Hitherto the occurrence of this 

 African form in the Iberian Peninsula rested upon three 

 specimens, all young birds obtained in the month of No- 

 vember of various years, near Malaga, and sent to Saunders 

 by his excellent collector the late Don Fco. de los Bios. 

 As Dr. Barboza du Bocage has already obtained three speci- 

 mens, we shall probably hear more about this species or 

 variety ere long. It is distinguished as Certhilauda duponti^ 

 var. lusitanica. 



34. Belgian Ornithological Report. 



[Compte Rendu des Observations Ornithologiques faites en Belgique 

 pendant I'annee 1885. Bull. Mus. Roy. d'llist. Nat. de Belgique, iv. 

 pp. 177-210.] 



Dr. Alphonse Dubois, who signs this Report, has received 

 assistance from brother ornithologists at Brussels, Hasselt, 

 Carlsbourg,the Blankenberghe, Knocke,Ostend, and Nieuport 

 lighthouses, and some minor localities. The observations, 

 princi])ally but not entirely on migrations, are, so far, of 

 considerable interest, and refer to 171 species; but Dr. 

 Dubois hopes to have more extended aid in following years. 



