110 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



further researches, and finally to identify it with Anthus cer- 

 vinus, which is thus introduced into the North- American list. 



17. Ridgivay on Merula confinis, 



[ISTote on Merula conjinis. By Robert Ridgway. Proc. U.S. Nat. Miis, 

 1883, p. 158.J 



The type specimen of Merula confinis, discovered by Xantus 

 at Todos Santos, in Lower California, in I860, has hitherto 

 remained unique. Mr. Belding has now, however, trans- 

 mitted two additional examj)les, and there is no question 

 that the species is one of " pronounced characters.'^ 



18. Saunders's Edition of Yarr ell's 'Birds.' 



[A History of British Birds. By the late William Yarrell, V.P.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. Fourth Edition. Revised to the end of the Second Volume by 

 Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S., continued by Howard Saunders, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. Parts XV.-XX, November 1882-December 188-3.] 



The six parts issued during the past thirteen months con- 

 tain the Pigeons, Pallas's Sand-Grouse, the Game-birds, 

 Rails, Crane, Bustards, Plovers, and the majority of the 

 Sandpipers. There is good reason to expect that the Avhole 

 work will be completed by the middle of 1885. 



19. Schalow on Bohm's Collections from East Africa. 



[Die ornithologischen Sammlungen Dr. R. Bohm's aus Ost-Afrika. Nach 

 den schriftlichen Notizen des Reisendeu bearbeitet von Herman Schalow. 

 Separatabdr. aus Cab. J. f. Orn. 1883.] 



The present collection of Dr. Bohm contains examples of 

 161 species from Zanzibar, the Ugogo district, and Kakoma, 

 mostly from the last-named locality (32° 29' E. and 5° 47' S.), 

 which was the headquarters of the German Expedition for 

 the exploration of Eastern Africa up to August 1881. Here, 

 at the furthest point in a south-western direction in Eastern 

 Africa that naturalists have yet reached. Central- African 

 forms, such as Parus rufiventris, Bocage, hitherto only known 

 from the interior districts of Angola, begin to be met with. 

 The new species of Dr. Bohm's collections have been already 



