Recently published Ornithological Works. 333 



XXIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



(Continued from p. 178.) 



30. Agassiz^s Report on the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology. 



From Mr. Alexander Agassiz^s report on the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology at Harvard College for 1880^, we ex- 

 tract the following passage concerning the Birds : — 



" The number of skins added is 1744, and includes about 

 600 mounted specimens. Among them are various species 

 of Pheasants, Birds of Paradise, Pittas, Humming-birds, 

 Manucodias, &c., as well as many less showy species of con- 

 siderable rarity. 



" There have been added also 25 mounted skeletons, besides 

 nearly as many unmounted, and fifty sets of eggs, represent- 

 ing as many species. These are especially noteworthy, as 

 being nearly all from the Argentine Republic, thoroughly 

 identified, and beautifully prepared. 



" The principal additions are from the West Indies and 

 South America, including 300 skins from Santa Lucia, British 

 West Indies, 370 from Trinidad and the island of Grenada, 

 and 500 from the Argentine Uruguay, which represent over 

 200 species, forming an excellent suite of the birds of that 

 immediate vicinity." 



31. Barboza Du Bocage's 'Ornithology of Angola.' 



[Ornithologie d'Angola, ouvrage publie sous les auspices du Ministere 

 de la Marine et des Colonies. Par J. V. Barboza du Bocage. Deuxieme 

 Partie. Royal 8vo. Lisbonne : 1881.] 



We are much pleased to receive the second part of Prof. 

 Barboza du Bocage^s ' Ornithologie d'Angola,' completing a 

 most useful work. We could wish that Mr. Sharpens edition 

 of Layard's ' Birds of South Africa ' (commenced in 1875) 

 were also finished. With these, and Gurney's ' Birds of 

 Damara Land,' we should then have a fine series of works of 

 reference on the birds of the southern half of the African 

 continent. 



