Recently piihUshi'd OrnifJio/of/ical Works. 335 



68. Hartert on Turacus chalcoloplius. 



[On Turacus chalculophus Neumann. B^'- Ernst Hartert. Xov. Zool. 

 \ii. p. 278.] 



This fine Touraco is tlie East African representative of T. 

 schaloioi, of Benguela, and T. Uvingstoni of Zambesia, It is 

 described and figured from an example obtained by Mr. Oscar 

 Neumann in the forests of Gurui^ in German East Africa. 

 There is a good specimen of T. schalowi now living in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens^ presented by Mr. W. L. 

 Sclater. (See P. Z. S. 1899, p. 828.) 



69. HeUmayr on the Genus Polioptila. 



[Benierkungen liber die neiiweltliche Gattung- Volioptila, nebst Bu- 

 schreibung einer neuen Subspecies aus Peru. Von C. E. Hellmayr. 

 Nov. Zool. vii. p. 535.] 



Mr. Hellmayr reviews the American genus Polioptila, of 

 which he has studied a series of about 70 specimens. Of 

 the black-headed group he recognises six subspecies, two of 

 which (P. nigriceps anteocularis from Colombia, and P. n. 

 major from Peru) are characterized as new. 



70. Hudson's ' Nature in Downland.' 



[Nature in Downland. By W. H. Hudson. Longmans, Green, & Co. 

 London. Pp. i-xii, 1-307. Price 10s. 6c?.] 



Mr, Hudson, who writes from the "sesthetic point of view 

 of a lover of nature," gives us a highly poetical description 

 of the South Downs of Sussex, with their adjacent low lands 

 and coast. He revels in the beauty of the rolling uplands, 

 with their wealth of flowers, their abundant bird and insect 

 life, while he makes to pass before our gaze the inhabitants 

 of the plain — shepherds, labourers, cattle, and sheep — with 

 their characteristic habits and voices, comparing mankind in 

 the country with the degraded dwellers in the town. 



Birds are not a special feature in the book, but an inter- 

 esting account is given of the " Wheatear harvest " — not 

 yet entirely a thing of the past ; while Stonechats, Swallows, 



