226 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Merops superciliosus. Merops niibicoides. 



apiaster. Dicrocercus hirundineus. 



malimbicus. Melittophagus lafresnayei. 



nubicus. 



62. Fischer on the Birds of Masai-land. 



[Uebersicht der von Dr. G. A, Fischer auf seiner im Auftrage der 

 Hamburger Geograpbiscben Gesellscbaft unternommenen Reise in das 

 Masailand gesammelten iind beobacbteten Vogelarten. Bearbeitet von 

 Dr. G. A. Fiscber.] 



In this memoir Dr. Fischer gives an account of the birds 

 collected and observed during his recent journey into Masai- 

 land from Pangani_, in which he passed south-west of Kili- 

 manjarOj and reached Lake Naivasha. The tAvo principal 

 places at which collections were made were Great Aruscha 

 on Mount Maeru_, and the village of Nguruman^ in long, 

 36° E., lat. 2° S., on the eastern slope of a mountain-chain 

 which extends from north to south through Masai-land. 

 Between the coast and Lake Naivasha altogether 345 species 

 of birds were observed, and specimens of 269 species Avere 

 obtained, of which 36 were new. The new species have been 

 already described by Drs. Fischer and Reichenow in the 

 'Journal fiir Ornithologie ' for January 1884 (c/. 'Ibis/ 

 1884, p. 339). 



A new Nightingale {Lusciola afi'icana) sang morning and 

 evening to the traveller during his twelve days^ stay at 

 Little Aruscha, near the base of Kilimanjaro ; and a 

 Cuckoo with three tones to its cry {Cuculus heuglini) was met 

 with in many spots in Masai-land. Its egg was taken 

 April 28th in the nest of Erythropijgia leucoptera. A pair 

 of Cuculus canorus were also obtained at Little Aruscha on 

 March 29th. Parus fringillinus, Euplectes frederichseni, 

 Notauges fischeri, and Drepanorhgnchus reichenowi are 

 figured. 



63. Glanville's Catalogue of the Albany Museum, Cape 

 Colony. 



[Catalogue of the Natural History Collection of the Albany Museum, 

 Graham's Town. 8vo. Cape Town : 1883.] 



