3 14 Recently puhUshed OrnUhological Works. 



bretta are likewise abundant. The Giant Plantain-eater 

 {Turacus giganteus) was met with near Msuata; and Mr, 

 Stanley says he has seen the Baheriiceps on the upper river, 

 and " describes it accurately/^ 



Mr. Johnston is the first explorer of the Congo who has 

 made any effort to investigate its natural products, which 

 seem to have been rather ignored by the emissaries of the 

 International Association. We trust, however, that before 

 long some systematic attempts will be made to render its 

 rich fauna and flora better known to the world of science. 



56. Meyer on a Grouse from Saxony. 



[Eine in SacLseu erlegte Rackelhenne. Von A. B. Meyer. Mitth. d. 

 orn. Ver. iu Wien, 1884.] 



Dr. A. B. Meyer writes of a female specimen of Tetrao 

 medius {Tetrao urogallus x T. tetrix), obtained near Dresden. 



57. ' Ornithologist and Oologist.' 



[Ornithologist and Oologist. Vol. IX. No. 1. Pawtucket, R. I., 

 January 1884.] 



This number commences a new series of this popular 

 American bird-periodical, which now enters upon its ninth 

 volume. 



58. Radde and Pelzeln on Birds from the Caucasus. 



[Ueber eine Sendung von Vogeln aus dem Kaukasus. Vom Staatsrath 

 Dr. E. Radde nebst eineni Vorworte nnd Bemerkuugen von A. von Pel- 

 zeln. Mittlieilungen des ornithologischen Vereines in Wien, 1884, 

 No. 1.] 



Herr v. Pelzeln contributes some good critical notes to his 

 list of a collection of birds from the Caucasus which Dr. 

 Radde has lately sent through Crown-Prince Rudolf to the 

 Vienna Museum. He makes Ruficilla einjthroprocta, Gould 

 = R. ochrura (Gm.). Cf Schalow, J. f. O. 1880, p. 270. 



59. Report of the German Committee on the Migration of 

 Birds. 



[VII. Jabresbericlit (1882) des Ansschusses fiir Beobacbtungsstationen 

 der Vogel Deutscblands. J. f. O. 1884, p. 1.] 



