232 Recently published Ornithological Works, 



79. Salvadori on the Birds of Shoa. 



[Spedizione Italiana nell' Africa Equatoriale — Risultati Zoologici — 

 Uccelli dello Scioa e della regione fra Zeila e lo Scioa. Per Tommaso 

 Salvadori. Annali Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Gen ova, ser. 2, i. 1884, p. 19.] 



The well-known Italian naturalist Antinori went to Shoa, 

 in Southern Abyssinia, in 1876, at the head of an exploring 

 expedition, and remained there, or in its vicinity, until his 

 death in 1877. During the six years of his stay in that 

 country (only known to science previously from the results 

 of the visit of our countryman. Sir W. S. Harris, and of a 

 collector employed by Riippell) , Antinori made extensive col- 

 lections in every branch o£ natural history. Of birds there 

 were received in Italy 1531 specimens from Shoa, besides 

 about 30 others from other localities. These are worked out 

 by Count Salvadori in his usual accurate and painstaking 

 manner, and are referred to 307 species (from Shoa), of which 

 five [Cajjrimulgus frcenatus , Psalidoprocne antinorii, Eaplectes 

 scioanus, Textor scioanus, and Podiceps infuscatus) are re- 

 garded as new. The exact localities and collector's field- 

 notes are given of every specimen. A nest of Colius leucotis 

 and two eggs are in the collection. The nest is cup-shaped, 

 only slightly hollowed, and placed in the centre of a dense 

 thorn-bush. The eggs are rather rounded, whitish, with 

 (apparently) fine punctulations of dark grey, which, however, 

 are perhaps attributable to bad conservation. 



80. Saunders's Edition of ' Yarrell's British Birds.' 



[A History of British Birds. By the late William Yarrell, V.P.L.S., 

 F.Z.S, Fourth Edition. Revised to the end of the Second Volume by 

 Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S. ; continued by Howard Saunders, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. Parts XXVL-XXYHI. December 1884 to March 1885.] 



Part XXVI. contains the Herodiones; Part XXVII. the 

 Flamingo (which has occurred three or four times in England, 

 and always in autumn), the Geese, the Whooper, and 

 Bewiek^s Swan, the other Swans and nearly all the fresh- 

 water Ducks being comprised in Part XXVIII. 



