104 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



ri&s de toutes les especes, de leiirs varietes et de leurs ceufs. Planches 

 osteologiques lithographiees. Paris : Imprimerie de A. Quautin, 7 Rue 

 Saint-Benoit. 1883. Quarto, 168 pp., 20 plates.] 



It is pleasant to welcome a new labourer in the field of orni- 

 thological literature, and M. D'Aubusson^s coloured figures 

 are certainly superior to the ordinary product of the French 

 lithographer. But Ave must say we are disappointed with the 

 letterj)ress, which seems to contain little original, and is 

 hardly likely to supersede existing authorities on the birds 

 of France. 



5. Gould's ' Birds of Asia.' 



[The Birds of Asia. Bj J. Gould, F.R.S. Dedicated to the Honour- 

 able East India Company. Part XXXV. Folio. London : 1883.] 



The thirty-fifth part of the ' Birds of Asia/ which con- 

 cludes the work, contains figures of the following species : — 



Argusianus argiis. lyngipicus peninsularis. 



Leiothrix laurinfe. lyngipicus nanus. 



Indicator xanthonotus. Uragus sibiricus. 

 lyngipicus gymnophthalmus. 



The number also contains the title-pages and lists of plates 

 for the seven volumes in which it is proposed that the work 

 shall be bound, and the preface and introduction by ]VIr. 

 Sharpe. The latter contains so much matter of general in- 

 terest concerning the recent progress of our knowledge of 

 Asiatic ornithology that, with the author's consent, we have 

 reprinted it in this Journal*. 



6. Hartlaub on the Genus Hyliota. 



[Die Gattung Hyliota, Sw., monographische Skizze von Dr. G. Hart- 

 laub. (Separatabdr. aus Cab. J. f. Orn. Jahrg. 1883.) Juli-IIeft. Naum- 

 burg am S., 1883.] 



Dr. Hartlaub's excellent monographic sketch of the African 

 Muscicapine genus Hyliota is, we need hardly say, as com- 

 plete as such an essay can be made with the present state of 



* See above, p. 40. 



