522 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Ventura cle los Eeyes y Prosper. Anales de la Soc. Esp. de Hist. Nat. 

 torn. XV. 188G. Madrid : 1886.] 



This is a very useful compilation, giving a list of 408 

 species found in or ascribed to the Peninsula, with remarks 

 upon their geographical distribution. The author appears 

 to be well acquainted with the writings of his compatriots, as 

 well as with those of Lord Lilford, Col. Irby, and Howard 

 Saunders, but we fear that he does not understand English 

 perfectly ; and he is evidently unacquainted with Saunders's 

 later and fuller Catalogue of the Birds of Southern Spain, in 

 French, published in the Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de 

 France, in 1876-77. Unfortunately Dr. Reyes does not draw 

 any critical distinctions between the relative values of the 

 authorities cited by him, one of whom (Vayreda) we consider 

 to be almost valueless, whilst some others, although useful in 

 their time, are now out of date. The treatise is, however, by far 

 the best of its kind that has as yet appeared in the Spanish 

 language, and we are much pleased to see such good Avork in 

 the Peninsula. 



92. Snelleman on the Birds of Sumatra. 



[Midden Sumatra. Reizen in Onderzoekingeu der Sumatra-Expeditie, 

 uitgernst door bet aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1877-79, beschreven 

 door de Leden der Expeditie, ouder toezicbt van Prof. P. J. Veth. 

 Royal 8vo. Leiden, 1881. Baud iv. Natuurlijke Historie. Zorgideerin 

 en Vogels, door Job. F, Snelleman.] 



IMr. Snelleman gives a list of about 95 species of birds of 

 which examples were obtained by Prof. Veth during his 

 expedition into the interior of Sumatra in 1877-79. Three 

 of these species were originally supposed to be new and 

 were described by Schlegel as Perdix vethi, Arachnothera 

 concolor, and Bhipidura vidua. These are now identified wdth 

 Peloi^erdix rubrirostris, Salvad., Arachnothera affitiis, Horsf., 

 var. modesta, Eyton, and Bhipidura atrata, Salvad., all three 

 being figured ; Treron massica, Schlegel, is also figured. 



93-94. Sousa on African Birds. 



[Lista das aves colligidas em Africa de 1884 a 1885, pelos Srs. Capello 

 e Iveus. Por Jos6 Augusto de Sousa. Jorn. d. Sci. Math., Phys. e Natur. 

 Lisboa, 1880, No. xlii. 



