Recently published Ornithulog'tcal Works. 143 



of ornithological exploration iu Africa, which extends to 

 some 30 pages, and is followed by a very useful list of 1003 

 ])ublications relating to the subject. After a general intro- 

 duction, in which two coloured maps show the author^s 

 proposed zoological divisions of Africa in comparison with 

 those used by Wallace in 1876, the systematic portion of 

 the work is commenced. This, we are sorry to see, com- 

 mences at the lowest instead of the highest forms (contrary 

 to what has been the practice until recently in nearly all 

 systematic works). It contains an account of 19 families, 

 from the Struthionidse to the Ibididse, containing altogether 

 273 species. Each of these is described : its chief synonyms 

 and exact range are given, while particulars as to habits, 

 nesting, and other })eculiarities are added, so far as they are 

 known. Part II., to complete the first volume, is promised 

 in April next. 



26. Seehohm's 'Monograph of the Thrushes.' 



[A Mouograpli of the Turdidse, or Family of Thrushes. By the late 

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

 E,. Bowdler Sliarpe, LL.U., F.L.S., kc. Part IX. Imperial 4to. 

 Loudou : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1900. Price .3G*\] 



We have now before us Part ix. of Seebohm^s 'Mono- 

 graph of the Thrushes,'' as edited from his unfinished MS. by 

 Dr. Sliarpe. It continues the history of the Blackbirds, of 

 which 14 species are treated in the present number. 



The following species are figured : — 



Merula simillima. 



bourdilloni. 



kinnisi. 



ludovicise. 



flavipes. 



polionota. 



melauopleura. 



Merula pritzbueri. 



poliocephala. 



tempesti. 



■ canescens. 



— — papuonsis. 

 alpestris. 



Merula venezuelensis is a new form of M. jlavipes from 

 Venezuela, and M. polionota another of the same group 

 from Roraima, based mainly on the difference of the female. 

 M. melanopleura of Trinidad is a third of the same group. 



