Recently published Ornithological Works. 331 



F. DiiCane Goclman and Osbert Salvin. (Zoolooy.) Parts CXXXIX.- 

 CXL. 4to. London, 1898-1903. (Published for tlie Editors by R. II. 

 Porter, London.] 



With great satisfaction we record the issue of three more 

 portions of the " Aves" of the ' Biologia Centrali- Americana' 

 — continuing the third vohime from p. 41 to p. 88. In our 

 last notice of this important work ('Ibis/ 1898, p. 301) we 

 mentioned tlie commencement of the Accipitres with the 

 Ospreys (Pandionidte). The bird-parts in the numbers 

 since issued are devoted to the Falconidse, beginning with 

 the Harriers, Hawks, and Buzzards, nearly after the syste- 

 matic arrangement of the ' Nomenclator.' At the time of 

 Salvin's death the MS. of the Falconidae was in a forward 

 state. Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe has assisted Mr. Godman in 

 completing it. An excellent figure (plate Ixiii.) is given of 

 Morphnus yuianensis. 



59. Grant and Percival on the Birds of Southern Arabia. 



[On the Birds of Southern Arabia. By W. R Ogilvie Grant. With 

 Field Notes by A. Blayney Percival. Nov. Zool. vii. pp. 243, 591, 

 pi. X.] 



Mr. Ogilvie Grant gives an account of the birds collected 

 by Mr. A. Blayney Percival aiul his taxidermist, Mr. W, 

 Uodson, during an expedition into the interior of the terri- 

 tory of Aden and the adjoining districts, sent out by the 

 governor of that place in the spring of 1899. The exact 

 route is shown in a map attached to the paper. Mr. Dodson 

 unfortunately contracted a bad fever and died at Aden, just 

 as he was preparing to return home. 



The present article contains the results of this expedition 

 as regards birds, but incorporates previous information on 

 the same district, so that we have in it a complete account of 

 the Avifauna of Aden up to the present time. Col. Yerbury 

 ('Ibis/ 1896, p. 13) attributes 142 species to this Avi- 

 fauna ; the list before us contains 188 names, amongst which 

 (Edicnemus dodsoni, Ttlephonus percivali, and Ammomanes 

 saturatus are species discovered on this occasion. Other 

 interesting additions to the Avifauna are the Sugar-bird of 



