Recently published Ornithological Works. 517 



intorao alle migrazioni ed alia nidificazione, compilato dal Dottore Enrico 

 Hillyer Giglioli. 8vo. Firenze: 1886.] 



This very important work will prove invaluable to any one 

 who is studying the Birds of Europe^ containing as it does 

 the most complete and accurate list which has yet appeared 

 of the species found in Italy and the neighbouring islands, 

 inclusive of Malta. Especially useful are the remarks upon 

 geographical distribution and breeding-limits. Amongst 

 the rarities we note Turdus pallasi, Oreocincla dauma, 

 Nemura cyanura, Sylvia nana, Hypolais olivetoruni and 

 H. opaca, Accentor montanellus, Chelidon cashmiriensis, 

 Cotile obsoleta, Syrnium uralense, Aquila nipalensis, Bubulcus 

 coromandus, Hydromia alleni, and Myialitis geoffroyi, as well 

 as some sea-birds which seldom enter the Mediterranean. By 

 the way, we have recently examined specimens of the Indian 

 Buff-backed Heron [B. coromandus) from Lenkoran, on the 

 Caspian. We are glad also to see that Prof. Giglioli has suc- 

 ceeded in unearthing the fast-decaying specimen of Houbara 

 undulata which Saunders asserted many years ago to be in the 

 Syracuse Museum, but which has since lain there unobserved, 

 and has even had its very existence doubted. At the end of 

 the volume are lists of residents and migrants, calendars of 

 breeding, &c. We are glad to see that at the suggestion of 

 Prof. Giglioli the Italian Government has established an Orni- 

 thological Bureau dependent upon the Board of Agriculture, 

 and at the end of the year a Report will be issued of the results 

 of the observations collected by naturalists and also by keepers 

 of lighthouses and semaphore stations. But let it not be for- 

 gotten that, although still without one penny of Government 

 aid, it was a Committee of British ornithologists who inau- 

 gurated the movement now so well imitated in America and 

 elsewhere. 



84. Meyer on Birds from Emperor -William's- Land. 



[Notiz liber eine Vogelsammlung von Kaiser Wilhelms Land (Nordost- 

 Neu Guinea) und Naclibarscliaft von A. B. Meyer. Zeitsch. f. d. ges. 

 Ornithol. 1886, Heft 1.] 



Dr. A. B. Meyer treats of the first collection of birds 



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