Recently published Ornithological Works. 151 



good photograplis and excellent maps illustrate this part 

 of the work. (See ' Ibis/ 1887, p. ^53.) 



The fifth chapter is devoted to an essay on the Fauna 

 of the Canary Islands,, the Avifauna of which has been of 

 late years so fully worked out by Mr. Meade-Waldo (Ibis, 

 1889-94) and Dr. Konig (Journ. f. Orn. 1890). The 63 

 " breeding-birds " of the group are enumerated, and various 

 new Canarian " subspecies " are created. In the course of 

 the remarks it is proposed to make of our British Robin a 

 subspecies Erithacus rubecula melophilus, and of our Swift 

 a subspecies Apus apus apus. 



The sixth chapter contains an enumeration of the 27 birds 

 of the Los Islands, on the west coast of Africa, amongst 

 which the most remarkable species is the extraordinary 

 Sturnid CoccycoUus iris Oust., only known as yet from this 

 locality. 



In the seventh and eighth chapters the author returns 

 to '^ Haussaland," and gives us a list of the 189 species of 

 birds as yet recorded to have been found within its limits. 

 Hypochara * wilsuni (scr. Hypochera) is described as a new 

 species. 



15. Hartert on new Birds from Ecuador. 



[On some Birds from Noi'th-west Ecuador. By Ernst Hartert. Nov. 

 Zool. viii. pp. 3G9-371.] 



The following species are described — Neocrex uniformis 

 and Pittasoma rvfopiteatum, besides some subspecies, while 

 the remarkable Dacnis berlepschi Hart, and Grallaria pur- 

 ambdB Rothsch. (already characterized in the Bull. B. O. C.) 

 are figui-ed. 



16. Harting's ' Handbook of British Birds.' 



[A Handbook of British Birds, sliowiDg the Distribution of the Eesideiit 

 and Migratory Species in the British Islands, with an Index to the Records 

 of the Rarer Visitors. By J. E, Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. New and revised 

 edition. London : John C. Nimmo, 1901. 1 vol. 8vo. 520 pp. 

 Price 42s. net. t] 



* Cf. Bp. Consp. i. ]i. 450 and the Greek Dictionary {xhpa, vidua). 



t This work was published last year, but the copy sent to us -was 

 accidentally mislaid, and escaped our notice until it was too late for the 

 last number. — Edd. 



