Recently published Oi'iiitlioloyical IVorks. 2G3 



them to bear more directly upon the text, and such notes as 

 he has added of his own are concisely written, as notes should 

 be, and strictly to the point. In his own preface Mr. Hart- 

 ing has contrasted the neighbourhood of Selborne as it now 

 exists with the features it presented in White's time, not only 

 as regards the state of cultivation of the land, but also Avith 

 respect to the changes which have taken place in the compa- 

 rative rarity or the reverse of different animals mentioned in 

 White's pages. The chief features of White's life are alluded 

 to, and also brief biographies of his well-known correspon- 

 dents. Pennant and Barrington, and his early commentators, 

 Markwick and Aikin. All White's own notes are entered ; 

 and the text has been carefully collated with the original 

 quarto edition. A useful index is added to the volume. The 

 woodcuts ascribed to Bewick are characteristic of the work of 

 that famous artist, but they cannot be said to be the best of 

 his productions -, still the book, being carefully got up and 

 printed in clear type on good paper, makes a very nice volume. 



The fifth volume of the ' Annali del Museo Civico di Storia 

 Naturale di Genoa' contains an important work by oui" 

 Foreign Member, Count Salvadori, entitled " Catalogo siste- 

 matico degli Uccelli di Borneo con note ed osservazioni di G. 

 Doria ed O. Beccari." In it we find a complete account of 

 the birds of Borneo, so far as they were known up to the time 

 of the issue of the work. In his introduction. Count Salva- 

 dori treats of the scattered knowledge possessed of the orni- 

 thology of this important island, and of the number of species 

 recorded from the explorations of various travellers. He then 

 gives a chart of the distribution of Bornean birds, with refer- 

 ence to those of the adjoining islands, as well as a sketch of 

 its physical geography, and finishes his preface with an account 

 of the method he has employed in carrying out his work. 



In his account of each species very full synonymy is given, 

 as well as ample references. A complete sketch of tlie dis- 

 tribution of each species, particularizes with great care all 

 the localities where Bornean birds have occurred in countries 

 adjoining the one on which he writes; and, lastly, notes on 



