Recently published Ornithological Works. 4G1 



98. Green on Ocean Birds, 



[Ocean Birds. By J. F. Green. With a preface by A. G. Gviillemard, 

 and a treatise on skinning Birds by F. H. H. Guillemard. The illustra- 

 tions by Frances E. Green. 4to. Loudon : 1887. R. H. Porter.] 



The author, who is, we believe, a member of the well- 

 known firm of shipowners, and who has made several ''round 

 voyages,^^ has endeavoured to produce a work which shall 

 prove interesting and, at the same time, instructive, by giving 

 an account of the birds which may be met with on the way 

 to Australia by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and returning 

 round Cape Horn. The writer^s own observations are worthy 

 of perusal, and the entire compilation is well conceived; but 

 in execution it falls a little short. Some of the authorities 

 quoted are of no weight, or else they are completely out of 

 date in reference to such a subject ; and, as an instance of the 

 latter, when " Yarrell " is quoted, the reference is to the first 

 edition (1843), an epoch at which the most erroneous ideas 

 prevailed respecting the distribution of sea-birds. Transpo- 

 sitions in the numbering of plates ii. and iii. and of heads 6 

 and 7 in the latter r^re regrettable ; and, much as we wish to 

 speak well of a lady's work, high praise cannot be accorded 

 to the illustrations. A copy of this book in the saloon of 

 every ocean-going ship must necessarily stimulate a taste for 

 observation; but if the MS. had been submitted to some 

 judicious critic it would have been an advantage. 



99. Hartlaub on Birds from Eastern Equatorial Africa. 



[Dritter Beitrag zur Ornithologie der ostlicb-aquatorialen Gebiete 

 Afrikas. Von Dr. G. Hartlaub. Zoologische Jahrbiicher, Jena, Bd. ii. 

 p. 303.] 



This is Dr. Hartlaub's third essay on birds collected by 

 Dr. Emin Pacha in various points of his Equatorial- African 

 dominions, stretching from Lado to the Albert Nyanza. The 

 collection reached Bremen in 1883, but has been kept in 

 hand awaiting further acquisitions. The species of which 

 specimens are now recorded are about 50 in number, and 

 have exact localities and notes attached to each of them. 

 Several of the novelties have been already described (e. g. 



