Recentlij published Ornithological Works. 147 



likeness to tliat of the adult bird, being of a reddish brown. 

 The corresponding plumage of Bhinochetus is interesting in 

 that it is more ehiborate in pattern and varied in colour than 

 that of the adult; it is, indeed^ not altogether unlike that of 

 Eurypyga. 



8. Finn on the Birds of the Indian Museum. 



[List of the Birds in the Indian Museum. Part I. Families CorvidcBy 

 ParadiseidcB, Ptilonorhynchidce^ and CratevopodidcB, By F. Finn B.A. 

 F.Z.S., Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Museum. 8vo. Calcutta, 

 1901. Pp. i-xv, 1-115. Price 1 rupee.] 



The Indian Museum at Calcutta, formerly the Museum of 

 the Asiatic Society of Bengal, is a most important Institution 

 as regards ISlatural History, and especially Ornithology, for 

 it contains numerous specimens contributed to it by all the 

 best-known autiiorities on the birds of British India — not to 

 mention the many types of Blyth, Jerdon, and other authors. 

 It is quite right that a new list of its rich contents should 

 be prepared, Blyth^s well-known Catalogue having been 

 issued as long ago as 1849. Mr. W. L. Sclater was at work 

 upon it when he left India, and, as Mr. Finn tells us in his 

 Preface, the manuscript of the present volume was prepared 

 under his direction. Mr. Finn's chief task "has, therefore, 

 been to see it through the press, after intercalating the 

 numerous accessions made since the work was written.''^ 



The instalment of the List now before us deals with 

 the Passerine families Corvidae, Paradiseidse, Ptilonorhyn- 

 chidse, and Crateropodidae only, which are represented in the 

 Indian Museum by 3301 specimens belonging to 416 species. 

 About 66 specimens are types, mostly of Blyth. Of these a 

 list was prepared by Mr. W. L. Sclater and published in this 

 Journal in 1892 (Ibis, 1892, p. 73). 



The only references given in this List are to the volumes 

 of the ' Fauna of British India" and of the British Museum 

 Catalogue. The specimens of each species are then enume- 

 rated, with the localities, authorities, and the Museum Index- 

 numbers appended. The distribution of each species is 

 shortly stated. 



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