346 Recently published OrnithoIo//'ical Works. 



by Count Salvadori to 116 species_, of which (iucludiug 

 the uew Parrot) 18 are uew to the Faima of Matto Grosso. 

 Duriug a short stay at Tebicuari, on the Paraguayan 

 railway near Villa Rica^ Dr. Borelli also collected 22 birds 

 Avhicli are referable to 16 species. Four of these arc new to 

 Paraguay. 



82. Seebohm's ' Monograph of the Thrushes.' 



[A Mouograph of the Tiirdidfe, or Family of Thrushes. By the late 

 Henry Seebohin. Edited aud completed (after the Author's death) by 

 11. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. Part X. Imperial 4to. Loudon : 

 Henry Sotheran & Co., 1900. Price SGs.] 



The tenth part of Seebohm's ' Monograph of the Thrushes ' 

 (edited by Dr. R, B. Sharpe) is now before us. It continues 

 the series of Blackbirds {Merula) of the author's arrange- 

 mentj although we do not ourselves consider this section 

 fairly separable as a genus from typical Turdus. 



The following species^ amongst which are several of special 

 interest (e. g. M. kessleri of Kansu and M. seebohmi of 

 Kinabalu) are beautifully figured : — 



Merula thomassoni. 



bicolor. 



olivatra. 



roraimpe. 



euryzona. 



castauea. 



Merula kessleri. 



gouldi. 



seebohmi. 



albiceps. 



fumida. 



whileheadi. 



83. Shiifeldt on the Crania of the Owls. 



[Professor Collett on the Morphology of the Cranium and the Auricular 

 Openings in the North-European Species of the Family Strigidaj. By 

 Pv,. W. Shufeldt, M.D. Reprinted from Journ. of Morphol. xvii. p. 119, 

 1900.] 



Dr. Shufeldt has done good service to English-speaking 

 ornithologists in translating, from the Norwegian, Professor 

 Collett's paper on the Owls, to which he has added notes on 

 American species of Syrnium,Asio, and Surnia, on Micropallas 

 [Micrathene], and on Speotyto, contained in his own cabinets. 

 He concludes with a review of the opinions of recent authors 

 on the position of the Striges, though he does not seem to have 



