290 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



The Balkan, with its surrounding districts, has long re- 

 mained one of the least explored parts of Europe as regards 

 its birds, and we shall all welcome the contribution to our 

 knowledge of its ornis now before us. Herr Reiser, the 

 Gustos of the Museum at Sarajevo, in Bosnia, has made 

 three successive journeys over the area treated of for the 

 purpose of collecting, and has, besides, the vantage-ground 

 of his residence near one end of the Balkan range. 



The author commences with a lively narrative of his excur- 

 sions in 1890, 1891, and 1893, the routes of which are plainly 

 indicated in an accompanying map. To this are added a 

 register of preceding authorities on the subject, and a nominal 

 list of the birds of Bulgaria and the Dobrudsha, which, so far 

 as is yet known, is shown to embrace 363 species, besides 

 some others uncertain. The special portion of the work, 

 which follows, contains a series of field-notes and critical 

 remarks on the birds of Bulgaria, as observed by the author 

 and his assistants, or as met with by former authorities. 



Among the species of particular interest that are men- 

 tioned we remark Saxicola amphileuca, Accentor collaris, 

 Parus lugubns, Otocorys penicillata, Euspiza melanocephala, 

 Dendropicus syriacus, and Turtiir risorius decaocto. Full 

 notes are given about the Eagles and Vultures. The 

 following species are figured : — Buteo desertorum, Saxicola 

 amphileuca, Passer hispaniolensis, and Otocorys penicillata 

 and its eggs (concerning which see Ibis, 1894, p. 140). 



58. Rhoads's Edition of Ord's ' Zoology.' 



[A Reprint of the North-American Zoology, by George Ord. Being 

 an exact reproduction of the part originally compiled by Mr. Ord for 

 Johnson and Warner, and first published by them in their Second 

 American Edition of Guthrie's ' Geography ' in 1815. 'J'aken from 

 Mr. Ord's private annotated copy. To which is added an Appendix 

 on the more important Scientific and Historic Questions involved. By 

 Samuel N. Rhoads. 8vo. New Jersey, 1894.] 



Strictly speaking, as we are told in the introduction, this 

 is not the second American edition, for there was a quarto, 

 which is not very rare, dated 1794—95, but it is the second of 



