Recently published Ornithological Works. 343 



Examples of only about sixty species were obtained — all of 

 them well-known inhabitants of the States of the Rio de 

 la Plata. 



5-1. Huet on Birds in the Jardiii des Plantes. 



[Note sur les naissances, dons et acquisitions de la menagerie du museum 

 d'histoire uaturelle, pendant les mois de mai, juin, juillet et aout 1883. 

 Par M. Iluet. Bull. Soc. d'Acclimatation, Oct. 1883.] 



M. Huet gives an account of the additions to the birds in 

 the living collection at the Jardin des Plantes in the summer 

 of 1883j and in particular records the hatching of four young 

 Brush-Turkeys [Talegalla lathami) after a period of thirty 

 days^ " incubation " in their mound, and gives some inter- 

 esting particulars of the young birds. 



55. Johnston's 'River Congo.' 



[The River Congo, from its mouth to Bolobo, with a general Descrip- 

 tion of the Natural History and Anthropology of its Western Basin. 8vo. 

 London: 1883.] 



IVIr. Johnston would not pretend to claim for his volume 

 a comparison with Bates's ' Amazons ' or Wallace's ' Indian 

 Archipelago/ but every naturalist will read with pleasure the 

 lively narrative of his journey up the Congo, from its mouth 

 to Bolobo. It is much to be regretted that Mr. Johnston 

 had no collector with him, and that the specimens which he 

 was actually able to bring home were few and imperfectly 

 preserved. It has thus happened that in some cases the 

 scientific names given in the present volume from memory 

 or observation may not be strictly accurate. But we have a 

 good general chapter on the bird-life of the Congo, conclud- 

 ing with a systematic list of species, in which there seem to 

 be but few errors. There are likewise many bird-notes 

 interspersed in the narrative, and woodcuts of various species. 

 The Grey Parrot, we learn, is " found in incredible quantities 

 on Stanley Pool," a Pratincole is common on the Congo, 

 being found in " flocks of over a thousand at a time," and 

 the Egyptian Goose, Gypohierax, Darters, and Scopus um- 



