Recently published Ornithological Works. 201 



50. Sharpe and Wyatt on the HirundinidEe. 



[A Monogrfiph of the Ilirundinidse, or Family of Swallows. By R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe and Claude W. Wyatt. Part II. December, 1885. 

 London : Sotheran & Co.] 



The second number of this Monograph^ which appears to 

 be quite up to the standard of its predecessor^ contains 

 figures and descriptions of Hirundo senegalensis, H. eethiopica, 

 H. domicella, Chelidon dasypus, Cotile ftdigula ; a figure 

 of the young of Chelidon urbica ; and the description only 

 of Hirundo gordoni, which is regarded as merely a small race 

 and West- African representative of H. semirufa. 



51. Stnithsonian Report for 1883. 



TAnnual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Insti- 

 tution for the year 188-3. Washington : 1885.] 



The 'Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1883' 

 contains (pp. 220-225) Mr, Ridgway^s Report on the De- 

 partment of Birds of the National Museum of the U.S. The 

 total number of specimens entered on the Museum Register 

 during that year was 3631. Among these most imj)ortant 

 accessions are specified. The account of the " explorations " 

 (p. 11 et seq.) will also be read with interest, as likewise 

 Prof. Gill's record of the progress of Zoology in 1883. It 

 seems a great pity that, owing, we believe, to official exigen- 

 cies, the Smithsonian Reports cannot be rendered available 

 to the world in general at an earlier date. Thus we do not 

 receive the Report for 1883 until the end of 1S85. 



52. Stejneger on the Birds of the Commander Islands and 

 Kamtschatka. 



[Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and 

 in Kamtschatka. By Leonhard Stejneger. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no, 29. 

 1885.] 



This is the official report of Mr. Stejneger^s ornithological 

 observations in the Commander Islands and Kamtschatka, 

 during his expedition of 1882-83, of which we have already 

 spoken (see ' Ibis,' 1885, p. 110). It contains (1) a review of 



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