New and furthcomiiKj Ornithological Works, t^c. 195 



The dravviugs for the Plates have been already executed by Mr, 

 Wolf; and having stated thus much, we can only say that a group 

 of birds so difficult to represent adequately is certain to be done 

 justice to, so far as illustration can do it. 



We are promised an ornithological work upon the birds ob- 

 tained during Forsyth's expedition to Yarkand, to which allusion 

 has already been made in these pages [cf. 'Ibis' 1871, p. 407), 

 where the new species obtained were described by Mr. Hume. 

 The volume is to be in the form of Blanford's ' Geology and 

 Zoology of Abyssinia,' and is to be illustrated by about thirty 

 coloured Plates. The work will appear under the joint author- 

 ship of Dr. Henderson, the Surgeon to the expedition, and our 

 well-known contributor, Mr. Allan Hume. 



Professor Baird informs us that the first batch of MSS. for the 

 work on the 'Birds of North America,' on which he and Dr. 

 Brewer have been engaged for several years, has been sent to 

 press. The work is to be something in the style of the 'Birds 

 of California,' but will be superior to it in beauty, and will 

 embody a much larger proportion of biographical text to each 

 species. The engravings of the heads used in that work have 

 nearly all been reproduced in more artistic style ; and this espe- 

 cially applies to the new ones, relating to the peculiar eastern 

 species. This preliminary labour, Prof, Baird tells us, is finished ; 

 so that ere long we may expect the complete work. 



We have received the following pamphlets, in addition to 

 extracts from the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' the 

 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' and other English 

 Journals : — 



" On the Sternum and Viscera of Pel's Owl {Scotopelia peli) ." 

 By James Murie, M.D. From the Journal of Anatomy and 

 Physiology, Nov. 1871. 



"List of Birds collected or observed in the Wardha Valley 

 and its vicinity near Chanda." By W. T. Blanford, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. xl. part ii. 1871. 



" Note on Colonel M'Masters's List of Birds from Nagpore 

 &c." By W. T. Blanford. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. parf ii. 

 1871, p. 316. 



