66.2 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



wliicli arc divided into some 20 sections. Pseudozosterops 

 comprises only 3 species, from the Sunda Islands, and Lopho- 

 zosterops only 2, from the same part of the world. 



The Zosteropidss are spread over the greater part of the 

 tropical portion of the Old World, extending from Sene- 

 gambia to the Fijis, and from Japan {Z. japonica) and 

 Amoorland (Z. erythropleura) on the north to Tasmania and 

 New Zealand on the south. Dr. Finscli considers them to 

 be a family of nine-primaried Oscines allied to the Dicffiidse 

 and Mniotiltidse. 



112. Hellmayr on two new Brazilian Birds. 



[Besclireibung von zwei neuen brasilianisclien Vuoelu. Von C. E. 

 Hellmayr. Verhandl. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1902, pp. 95-98.] 



Attila naitereri and Rhamphoceenus sticturus, both from 

 Matto Grosso {Natterer) , are described as new. 



113. Hellmayr on a new Thryopliilus. 



[Nocli einige Worte iiber Thryophilus. Von C. E. Hellmayr. Ver- 

 handl. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1902, pp. 169-170.] 



The author describes Thryophilus baroni from Northei'n 



Peru as a new species. 



114. Hinde on the Game-birds of Masailand. 



[The Last of the Masai. By S. L. Hinde and Hildegarde Hinde. 

 1 vol., pp. 180. London, 1901.] 



JSlr. Hinde and his wife have put together a well-written 

 and excellently illustrated account of the Masai of British 

 East Africa, among whom the former has been " Resident and 

 Collector " for several years. The IVIasai have now " fallen 

 from their high estate" and are rapidly dwindling in numbers, 

 so that INlr. and IMrs. Hinde have done a good deed in 

 recording, before it was too late, their most extraordinary 

 habits and customs. IVIr. Hinde also gives us '' Field-Notes 

 on the Game of East Africa," which are mostly concerned 

 w ith mammals ; but a few pages are devoted to the Pigeons, 

 Water-Ibises, Bustards, Fraucolins, Guinea-fowl, and other 

 "game-birds" of Masailand; while the following passage on 

 the recent change of habits in the Oxpecker {Buphaga 

 erythrorhyncha) is worthy of notice : — 



