391 Recently published Oni'/f/iolof/ical Works. 



rarities represented as Entoniodestes coracinus, Oreomaurs 

 fraseri, and Oreoihranpis arrenionops. 



In the second memoir, in vvliich the Passeres Clamatores 

 are treated, six species out oF 180 represented in the col- 

 lection are described as new. These are Ela'mia cinerei- 

 frons, Pseiidoiinjiolnus (gen. nov.) annectens, SynaUaxis suh- 

 speciosa, Sclerurus salvini, Dendrocincla macrorhyncha, and 

 Acrupternis infnscata. Seven others are stated to be new to 

 Ecuador, and Grallaria yiyuntea is of great interest as the 

 thiixl known example of this rare s})ecies. 



64. Seebohin's ' Monoyraph of the Thrushes.^ 



[A Monograph of the Tiirdidfe, or Family of Thrushes. Ky the Lite 

 Henry Seebohm. Edited and completed (after the Author's death) by 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. Part vii. Imperial 4to. 

 London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1899.] 



The seventh part of this work, issued in December last, con- 

 cludes the true Turdi (according to Seebohm^s arrangement), 

 and commences the group of Merulce. The following species 

 are figured : — Turdus cabanisi, T. milanjensis, T. Rbonyanvs, 

 T. petios, T. suturatus, T. stormsi, T. cryptopyrrhus, MeriUa 

 merula, M. mandarina, M. boulboid, M. albicincta, and M. tor- 

 (jaata (two plates). A figure of Merula alpest7'is, the Alpine 

 form of the Ring-Ouzel, is deferred until the next number. 



65. Stark's Birds of South Africa. 



[The Fauna of South Africa. Edited by W. L. Sclater. The Birds 

 of South Africa. By Arthur C Stark, M.B. Vol. I. LondoJi : Porter, 

 1900.] 



We have now before us the first volume of the work of 

 our much-lamented friend, the late Dr. Stark^ on the Birds 

 of South Africa, which forms the first of Mr. W. L. Sclater's 

 proposed series of treatises on the fauna of that country. 

 Dr. Stark^s introduction is dated at Durban on October 10th, 

 1899. Thence he proceeded to Ladysmith, to attend on the 

 sick and wounded, and there he met his death on November 

 18th, as already described in our number for January last 

 {supra, p. 220). 



