254 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



he gives a full description, with a coloured plate, of the rare 

 Argus Pheasant, Rheinartius ocellatus, followed by a list of 

 thirty-two species from Annam, of which jEffithina philipi, 

 I'rom Hue, is cousidered to be new. Full particulars and 

 coloured plates are also given of Cyclopsittacus salvadorii 

 and Ptilopus {Rhamphiculus) marchii, originally described by 

 M. Oustalet in 1880, and of Numida marchii, described by 

 him in 188.2. 



55. Pelzeln and Lorenz on the Types in the Vienna Museum. 



[Typen der ornitliologisclien Sammlimg des k. k. naturhistorisclien 

 Hofmuseums. Von August von Pelzeln und Dr. Ludwig von Lorenz. 

 Ann. d, k. k. Naturh. Hofmuseums, Bd. i. p. 249.] 



This is the first portion of a very useful paper — an account 

 of the types in the great and renowned ornithological collec- 

 tion of the Imperial Museum of Natural History at Vienna. 

 Besides the types, those specimens are mentioned which are 

 actually equivalents of types, as having been compared with 

 types by, and received from, the describer of the species. 

 These are called authentic examples. The arrangement 

 followed is nearly that of Gray's ' Hand-list,' and the 

 present instalment contains the Rapaces, Fissirostres, and 

 Tenuirostres. 



56. Schperck on the Birds of the Amur. 



[' Rossi'ya dailnayo vostoka.' By Franz Scliperck. Being vol. xiv. of 

 the Zapiski of the Imp. Russian Geogr. Soc. St. Petersburg, 1885.] 



The author of this complete work on the Amur province 

 has resided there for ten years. A list is given (pp. 358-362) 

 of the birds observed, consisting of Rapaces 27, Scansores 14, 

 Oscines 121, Gallinse 13, Grallse 43, Natatores 44. A number 

 of new, or supposed new, species belonging to various genera 

 are named amurensis, the exception being Anas chinganensis, 

 but w^e can find no descriptions of them in this work. 



57. Shufeldt on Injuries to the Beak in Birds. 



[On Injuries of the Beak in Birds, and the Method of Repair. By R. 

 W. Shufeldt. Joum. Comp. Med. and Surg., Oct. 1886.] 



