288 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



British examples of the Red-throated Pipit. At p. 35 there 

 is an unfortunate — but obvious — slip of the pen as regards 

 the scientific name of the Reed-Bunting, and hypercritical 

 persons may find some of the author's sentences inelegant, 

 but the facts are so clear that '' he who runs may read." 



55. Rake on the Breeding o/ Nyctidromus albicollis. 



[Note on the Breeding of the Nightjar. By the late Beaven Rake, 

 M.D. Journ. Trinidad Field-Nat. Club, ii. p. 109, 1894.] 



In Trinidad Nyctidromus albicollis lays two eggs on the 

 ground. They are strongly coloured, differing from those 

 of Caprimulgus europceus in having more red both in the 

 ground-tint and in the mottling. {Cf. Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii. p. 393.) 



56, Reichenow on the Birds of German East-Africa. 



[Die Viigel Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas. Von Dr. Ant. Reichenow. Mit 

 iiber 100 in den Text gedruckten schwarzen und farbigen Abbildungen 

 nach der Natur gezeichuet von Anna Held. Reinier, Berlin, 1894. 

 250 pp.] 



Dr. Reichenow^s work, although issued separately, forms 

 a portion of the third volume of Stuhlmann's ' IMit Emiu 

 Pascha ins Herz von Afrika' (see Ibis, 1894, p. 445), which 

 is to be devoted to an account of the zoology of that country 

 under the general editorship of Dr. Mobius. It is evidently 

 designed not so much as a strictly scientific work as to 

 enable future explorers of this portion of German Africa to 

 make themselves acquainted with what is already known and 

 to facilitate further researches. At the same time it will 

 be of very great interest to the scientific student of the 

 Ethiopian avifauna. 



Dr. Reichenow commences with a historical account of 

 the many naturalists and travellers who have added to our 

 knowledge of the birds of German East-Africa, and have 

 brought it up to its present standpoint, since Bojer, in 1824, 

 made a beginning by sending to Vienna a collection of birds 

 from Zanzibar. Speke, Grant, Kirk, Thomson, and Hunter 

 are Englishmen to whom the results now arrived at are 



