Recently published Ornithological Worka. 285 



It is^ however, for the birds which breed along the coast 

 and ou the islands that Pembroke is most distinguished ; and 

 Mr. Mathew gives excellent descriptions of the Gannets, 

 Kittiwakes, and other sea-birds at Grassholm, the enormous 

 colony of Manx Shearwaters on Skomer, and the cliff-fre- 

 quenters of the picturesque island of Ramsey, off St. David's. 

 Capital photographs of these are supplied, and there are two 

 useful maps. According to our experience, it is a melan- 

 choly fact that the introduction to a work is comparatively 

 seldom read, except by reviewers ; but this omission would be 

 a great mistake in the present instance, for the remarks on 

 migration and distribution form a very important feature of 

 the book. 



49. Menzbier and Severtzow on the Ornithology of 

 Turkestan. 



[Dr. N. A. Severtzow. Ornithologie du Turkestan et des Pays ad- 

 jacents. Par M. le Docteur M. A. Menzbier. Livr. 4. Text & Atlas. 

 Folio. Mo3cou, 1894.] 



The fourth livraison and accompanying atlas o plates of 

 Menzbier's ' Ornithology of Turkestan,' based upon Severt- 

 zow's researches, has lately reached us (see Ibis, 1892, p. 336). 

 The author explains that his time having been taken up with 

 his ' Oiseaux de la Russie,' written in Russian, the present 

 work has been unavoidably delayed, but will now be pushed 

 on to a termination. The present demi-livraison finishes the 

 account of the diurnal and nocturnal Rapaces, and gives us 

 coloured figures of the following species ; — Gyps himalayensis, 

 Bubo turcomanus, Bubo ignavus sibiricus, Syrnium biddulphi. 



50. Meyer on nevj Birds from the East Indies. 



[Neue Vogel aus dem Ostindischen Archipel. Von A. B. Meyer. 

 Abhandl. u. Ber. k. zool. u. Anthrop. Mas. Dresden, 1894-95, No. 2.] 



Dr. Meyer describes as new Basilornis galeatus, from S.E. 

 New Guinea (locality not quite certain), and Lamprothorax 

 wilhelmina (new genus and species of Paradiseidse) , from the 

 Arfak Mountains, New Guinea, and makes remarks on 



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