338 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Zealand, part of which lies south of this parallel. The 

 result is a list of 299 species, made up, as it appears to us, 

 of three very different Avifaunas which have little or nothing 

 to do with one another — namely, the South American 

 element (192 sp.), the New Zealand element (59 sp.), and 

 true Antarctic element (48 sp.). 



75. Meade- Waldo on the Birds of Hampshire. 



[The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Hampshire and 

 the Isle ofWig-ht. Vol.1. Westminster, Archibald Constable. 1vol. 

 4to. :m pp. 1000. Price £6 Qs. for the set of 4 volumes.] 



The new 'Victoria^ series of County Histories, edited hy 

 Mr. H. Arthur Doubleday, is commenced by the issue of 

 the first volume of the History of Hampshire. This is a 

 bulky quarto, well and clearly printed on good paper, and 

 fully illustrated by plates and maps, presenting a most 

 attractive appearance. The volume now before us contains 

 the whole of the natural history of the county — a branch of 

 the work which is edited by our associate Mr. A. Trevor- 

 Battye — and the first portion of the antiquities. The 

 chapter on the birds has been prepared by Mr. Meade-Waldo, 

 who discreetly follows Mr. Saunders's well-known arrange- 

 ment and nomenclature. He enumerates .280 species as 

 assignable to the Hampshire Avifauna, and gives short field- 

 notes on each of thom. We think that these remarks might 

 have been a little more copious in certain cases and of a 

 somewhat less general character — but possibly the author 

 was restricted as to space. The principal local collections 

 of birds (such as those of Mr. Hart at Christchurch, of 

 Winchester College, and of the town of Alton) should also 

 have been mentioned, in order to show where authentic 

 specimens of Hampshire birds may be seen. 



76. Neumann on the Avifauna of Eastern and Central 

 Africa. 



[Beitrage zur Vogelfauna von Ost- und Oentral-Afrikn . III. Von O. 

 Neumann. J. f. O. 1900, p. 185.] 



This is the third and concluding part of the author's account 

 of the birds collected during his extensive journey through 



