92 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



25. Salvadori and Giglioli on new Woodpeckers. 



[Due niiove specie di Picchi raccolte durante il viaggio intorno al mondo 

 della pirofregata Magenta. Descritte da T, Salvadori ed E. Giglioli. 

 Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, vol. xx.] 



The Woodpeckers described are lyngipicus frater, from 

 Malacca^ and /. waiter si, from Formosa, The specimens 

 have been submitted to Mr. Hargitt, who agrees with the 

 authors that the species are new. 



26. Seebohm's ' British Birds and their Eggs.' 



[A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs. 

 By Henry Seebohm. Parts V. & VI. Royal 8vo. London : 1885.] 



The concluding portion of this work reached us just too 

 late for notice in our previous issue, otherwise we should 

 have been the first to congratulate Mr. Seebohm on the 

 completion of his labours. We have from time to time 

 expressed our favourable opinion of the illustrations and of 

 the general aim of the work, although want of space and 

 other considerations have hitherto precluded any extended 

 notice ; but the Parts now before us may be treated more fully. 



As heretofore, the systematic arrangement adopted by 

 Mr. Seebohm is on somewhat independent lines. Part V. 

 commences with the family Charadriidse, in which are com- 

 prised not only Plovers, but also the Scolopacidfe. These 

 are followed by the Laridse, Alcidse, Colymbidae, Procellariidae, 

 Podicipedidse, Anatidae, and concluded by the Pelecanidse. 

 An Appendix, treating of Mr. Seebohm^s new species of Wren 

 from St. Kilda, named Troglodytes hirtensis, about which we 

 have heard so much, followed by an Introduction entitled 

 "The Historians of British Birds,^-* Indexes, &c., and brief — 

 too brief — lists of Errata et Addenda complete the work. 



Mr. Seebohm shows to less advantage when playing the 

 iconoclast among what he is pleased to term "pseudo- 

 genera^"' than when describing the habits of those species 

 with which he has become personally acquainted during his 

 extensive experiences in the field. As regards the latter 

 the interest of these Parts is fully on a level with that of 



