502 Recently published Oi-nithuloyical Works. 



much pleased to receive a copy of the secoud and coucludiug 

 part of our friend Dr. Goeldi's little book on the Birds of 

 Brazil. It is essentially a popular compilation, but contains 

 many remarks of great interest, the results of the author's 

 personal observation, and will prove a most useful guide to 

 the study of the birds of tropical America. We need hardly 

 point out the enormous extent of the work still to be done 

 before we can be fully acquainted with the birds of Brazil, 

 and we trust that Dr. Goeldi's volumes may induce many 

 of its inhabitants to take up the study of tiieir country's 

 avifauna. 



92. Grant on Additions to the List of Arabian Birds. 



[Further Additions to the List of Birds of Southern Arabia. By W. 

 R. Ogilvie Grant. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 54.] 



Mr. Grant adds Amydrus tristrami and Rhynchostruthus 

 percivali to the list of South-Arabian birds, from examples 

 procured in Hadramaut by Mr. G. W. Bury. It is obvious 

 that the former is identical with Amydrus hadramauticus of 

 Lorenz and Hellmayr (J. f. O. 1901, p. 231), who have lately 

 published a description of Mr. Bury's whole collection. 



93. Grinnell on the Birds of Kotzebiie Sound. 



[Pacific Coast Avifauna. No. 1. Birds of the Kotzehue Sound Region, 

 Alaska. By Joseph Grinnell. Published by the Cooper Ornithological 

 Club of California. Royal 8vo. 1900.] 



This memoir is the first of a series of publications issued 

 by the " Cooper Ornithological Club " as papers meriting 

 special consideration, their ordinary organ being "^The 

 Condor.' It contains an account of the collection of birds 

 and eggs made by Mr. Grinnell during an expedition to the 

 district of Kotzebue Sound, in Northern Alaska, just below 

 the Arctic Circle. The party left San Francisco in May 

 1898 and passed the following winter and spring in the 

 interior, on the Kowak River, whence various excursions were 

 made. Collections were gathered at all the points visited, 

 and al)out 700 bird-skins and as many eggs were preserved. 



