88 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



parvirostris, and Foudia consobrina. Besides these, there is 

 in the collection a new form of Muscicapidae allied to Smith- 

 ornis and Pseudobias, proposed to be called Humblotia flavi- 

 7'ostris. We trust that further details and complete descrip- 

 tions will soon be given of this very interesting collection. 



18. Oustalet on the Ornithological Congress of Vienna. 



[Rapport a M, le Ministre de I'liistruction publique et des Beaux-Arts 

 8ur le CoDgres et I'Exposition Ornitbologiques de Vienne eu 1884. Par 

 M. E. Oustalet. Extr. des Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Litteraires, 

 8^r. iii, vol. xii. Paris, 1885.] 



This is^ perhaps, the fullest account of the ornithological 

 doings at Vienna last year that has yet been issued. It com- 

 mences with a report on the ornithological exhibition which was 

 opened from the 4th to the 14th of April, and which, besides 

 living birds, contained several series of mounted specimens 

 and skins from different quarters. Amongst them M. Ous- 

 talet calls special attention to a collection from the Caucasus, 

 presented by Prince Rudolph to the Ornithological Union of 

 Vienna, and to a collection from Ecuador, formed by Baron 

 Gabriel de Gunzberg during his recent travels in that 

 country in company with M. Wiener. He also alludes to the 

 *' Polar group " of birds, amongst which were exhibited the 

 specimens procured by Dr. Bernhard Fischer during Count 

 Hans Vitczek^s expedition to Jan-Mayen Island. In the 

 intervals of the stances of the subsequent Ornithological 

 Congress, which lasted from the 6tli to the 10th of April, and 

 of which M. Oustalet gives a very full account, visits were 

 made by him, in company with Messrs. Steindachner and 

 Pelzeln, to the Menagerie at Schonbrunn, the Imperial Mu- 

 seum of Vienna, and to the private collection of the Prince 

 of Cobourg. M. Oustalet, in concluding his excellent report, 

 takes the opportunity of calling the attention of the Minister 

 of Public Instruction to the three following points : — 



1. The want of any good modern work on the birds of 

 France. 



2. The inordinate way in which the small birds are de- 

 stroyed in France, to the serious detriment of agriculture. 



