352 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



XXXVI. — Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 257.] 



65. Barboza du Bocage on new West- African Birds. 



[Oiseaux nouveaux de I'lle St. Thome, par J. V. Barboza du Bocage. 

 Jorn. d. Sci. Math. Phys. e Nat. Lishoa, no. xliv. 1887.] 



M. J. V. Barboza du Bocage describes two new Passerine 

 birds from the island of St. Thomas, West Africa, as Cinnyris 

 newtoni and Prinia molleri, and gives remarks on Treron crassi- 

 rostris, which, contrary to the opinion of Captain Shelley, 

 he considers distinct from T. calva. 



QQ. Blakiston on the Wuter-Birds of Japan. 



[Water-Birds of Japan. By T. W. Blakiston. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 1886, p. 652.] 



Capt. Blakiston has revised his list of the ^' Water-Birds " 

 [i. e. Natatores) of Japan, which he now makes, including 

 some doubtful species, to be 94 in number. Of these one 

 third are " freshwater species. ^^ The list is arranged in four 

 columns, to show the geographical range of the species. 

 Some general remarks are prefaced. 



67. Dubois on two new Birds. 



[Description de deux nouvelles especes d'oiseaux : par Alph. Dubois. 

 Bull. Mus. Roy. Belg. v. p. 1, 1887.] 



The species described are Agelaus sclateri, from Ecuador, 

 and Cuculus stormsi, from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. 



- 68. Gould's ' Supplement to the Trochilidae.' 



[Supplement to the Trochilidaj, or Humming-Birds. By [the late] 

 John Gould, F.R.S. &c. Part V. Folio. London : 1887.] 



Another of the great series of works planned, and for the 

 most part carried out, by John Gould is now finished by 

 the issue of the fifth and final part of the ' Supplement to 



