Recently published Ornithological Works. \Q>7 



8. Glanville's Report on the Albany Museum. 



[Report of the Curator of the Albany Museum for the Year ended 31st 

 December 1880. Cape of Good Hope : 1881. Parliamentary Paper.] 



Several notes ou the birds received in 1880 are given, 

 which may be useful to those who are working at South- 

 African ornithology. The lieport is signed "13. J. Glan- 

 villej £!urator/^ 



9. Gould's ' Supplement to the Trochilidce/ 



[Supplement to the Trochilidtc or IIumming-Eirds. By John Gould, 

 F.R.S. &c. Part II. Folio. London: 1881.] 



We are glad to be assured by the issue of a new part that 

 this great work will be brought to a completion. JNIessrs. 

 Sotheran have inserted the following address to the sub- 

 scribers in the present part : — 



" JVEr. Gould left a large number of plates drawn on stone 

 for the present work, with the patterns for colouring approved 

 by him, so that the task of completing the ' Supplement to 

 the IVIonograph of the Trochilidae ' seemed at first sight to 

 be an easy one. "We have^ hoA^ever, received from Mr. 

 Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., w^ho has most kindly interested him- 

 self in making this monograph perfect^ a list of the species 

 left unfigured at the time of Mr. GoukVs decease, and we 

 find that there are more than one hundred Hummiug-birds 

 not represented in the original monograph. 



" Some of these it will be impossible to figure, as the type 

 specimens are unique in foreign collections j but Mr. Salvin 

 has lent us a large number of specimens from his private 

 collection, which will enable us to give illustrations of the 

 majority of the species. 



" Under these circumstances it is impossible to complete 

 the Supplement in four parts, as intended by Mr. Gould, 

 who, as we have pointed out above, had quite unaerestimated 

 the number of additional species ; and we believe that he 

 must have contemplated publishing a further supplemental 

 volume at some future date. We can promise, however, that 

 the volume shall be completed in five parts j and of those 



