444 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



rated last year at Vienna. Altogether the species mentioned 

 amount to 336^ of which 70 are resident_, 57 summer and 

 39 winter visitors, 49 are of regular passage, 105 irregular 

 or stragglers, and 16 are regarded as " varietes clima- 

 teriques." The dates of arrival and departure, the Flemish 

 names of the species, and other particulars render this a very 

 useful and interesting compilation. 



119. Dybowski and Taczanowski on the Birds of Kamts- 

 chatka. 



[Liste dea Oiseaux du Kamtschatka et des iles Oomandores. Par le 

 Dr. B. DyLowski and L. Taczanowski. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884, 

 pp. 145-161.] 



The field-notes by Dr. Dybowski have already been noticed 

 (Ibis, 1884, p. 207), and we have now a complete list of 

 the species of which he collected specimens (IGl in number), 

 followed by remarks on and descrijotions of some of the 

 more interesting, together with some rectifications of former 

 statements. 



120. H. 0. Forbes on the Eastern Archipelago. 



[A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, a Narrative of 

 Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883. By Henry O. Forbes, 

 F.E.G.S. London: 1885.] 



IVIembers of the B. O. U. will, we are sure, all enjoy IMr. 

 Forbes's account of his wanderings in the Eastern Archi- 

 pelago, in the course of which he explored the Cocos-Keel- 

 ling Islands, Java, Sumatra, Timor-Laut, Burn, and Timor, 

 and devotes a section of his work to each of these localities. 

 Numerous allusions to birds observed will be found through- 

 out the volume, and the various appendices contain lists of 

 the avifaunas of the Cocos-Keeling Islands, Sumatra, Timor- 

 Laut, and Buru, which will be very useful for reference. 

 We may also call special attention to IVEr. Forbes^'s account 

 of the habits of Buceros galeatus (p. 154) as novel and inter- 

 esting, to his notice of the rare birds met with at the summit 

 of IViount Dempo in Sumatra (pp. 207-209), and to his 

 general remarks on the birds of Timor-Laut (p. 337). The 



