458 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



of the day. So long as this fashion lasts, no remonstrances 

 from us or from " Selborne Societies/^ or from any other 

 source, will, we are well aware, have the slightest effect upon 

 the indirect, but real, instigators of this slaughter; all that 

 can be hoped for is that the freaks of feminine vanity may 

 take some other and less harmful direction. 



Under "Notes and NeAvs"" are some important items of 

 information respecting the American Museum of Natural 

 History of New York City; but these are reserved for a 

 separate heading in our Notices, as being more likely to 

 attract attention there than in the present review. 



91. Barboza du Bocage on new Birds from St. Thome. 



[Oiseaux nouveaux de File St. Thome : par J. V. Barboza du Bocage. 

 Jorn. Acad. Sci. Lisboa, no. xliv. p. 250.] 



The species described as new are Cinnyris newtoni (near to 

 C hartlaubi of Prince's Island), named after Mr. Francis 

 Newton; and Prinia molleri, brought back by M. Moller, a 

 botanist who was exj)loring St. Thome. 



93. Bombay Natural History Society's Journal. 



[The Jourual of tlie Bombay Natural History Society. Edited by 

 R. A. Sterndale and E. H. Aitken. V'ol. II. nos. 1, 2. Bombay: 1887.] 



These two numbers contain several minor papers which it 

 is hardly necessary to enumerate, and " Notes on some Birds 

 seen in a Journey through Pei^sia," by G. J. R. Rayment, 

 A.V.D. 



93. British Association' s Report on Migrations in 1886. 



[Report on the Mig-ration of Birds in tlie Spring and Autumn of 188G. 

 By Messrs. J. A. Harvie-Brown, J. Cordeaux, R. M. Barrington, A. G. 

 More, and W. Eagle Clarke. Eighth Report. 8vo. MTarlane and 

 Erskine, Edinburgh : 1887.] 



We are glad to see that our suggestion of last year (Ibis, 

 1886, p. 516) has been adopted, and that the names of the 

 various stations are given in the present Report, instead of 

 numerals referring to a list on the map. Observations for 

 1886 have borne good fruit with Phylloscopus superciliosus 



