33 i Recenili/ published Ornitholofjical Works. 



The avifauna of Angola, according to our author, is now 

 known to couiprehcnd 698 species. Of each of these the 

 synonyms, characters, and kicalities are concisely given in 

 the present work, besides other renuirks where necessary. 

 Coloured illustrations are given of the follow ing species : — 



PI. V. Pholidauges verreauxii. I'l. X. fig. 1. Panis nifiventiis. 

 \1. Lamprocolius acuticaudus. „ „ '2. Ilypdloruis salva- 



VII. Lamprotornis piirpiireus. dori. 



VIII. tig. 1. Mirafra nigricans. II. fig. 1. Cos.syplia bocagei. 



„ „ 2. Anlhus pallesceus. „ „ 2. baibata. 



32. Blasius and Nehrkorn on Bornean Birds. 



[Beit rage zur Keuntniss der Vogelfauna vou Borneo (nach den Samm- 

 luno-en des Ilerrn Dr. Platen) von W. Blasius und A. Nehrkoni. Jahresb. 

 d. Vereins fiir Naturwiss. zu Braunschweig, 1880-81.] 



A list of 83 species, represented in two collections of birds 

 from Borneo made by Dr. Platen in 1880, arranged in ac- 

 cordance with Count Salvadori's well-known memoir on 

 Bornean birds. The exact dates, localities, and colours of 

 the soft parts are given from notes of the collector. Remarks 

 of the authors are added in many cases. Amongst the rarer 

 species mentioned are Lepocestes porpthyromelas and Pity- 

 riasis gtjmnocephala. 



33. ' Bidletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club.' 



[Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: a Quarterly Journal of 

 Ornithology, vol. vi. October 1881, no. 4, and vol. vii. January 1882, no. 1. 

 Cambridge, Mass.] 



Both these numbers of our excellent contemporary contain 

 much of interest to the general ornithologist. Besides Mr. 

 Ridgway's articles noticed under his name below, the same 

 author describes a supposed new^ Heron {Ardea icardi) from 

 Florida, and gives us some very curious speculations con- 

 cerning this form and its allies, A. occidentalis, A. wUrde- 

 manni, and A. herodias. An important discovery by Mr. 

 Brewster is that the lately described Helminthophagce (leuco- 

 bronchiaiis and lawrencii) are hybrids between H. pinus and 

 H. chysopteral Mr. Brewster also describes a new local 



