1 78 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Sainte Marie in Southern Madagascar innumerable frag- 

 ments of the eggs of ^pyornis. No. 4 relates to a collec- 

 tion of birds from the Egyptian Soudan made by M. and 

 Mme. de Vilmorin. Fifty-eight species are enumerated, 

 and notes are added on each of them. In No. 5 we find the 

 first and second parts of a list of birds forwarded to the 

 Paris Museum by M. Rey, the Governor of the Colony of 

 Cayenne. Most of the 74 species are well-known, but 

 Vireolanius leucotis is rather a rarity. In Nos. 6 and 7 

 M. Menegaux transfers his attention to Ecuador, and 

 registers two collections made in various parts of that 

 Republic. The former, presented by M. Gonessiat, con- 

 tained examples of 47 species ; the latter was a set of 

 duplicates from the Museum at Quito, which are referred to 

 47 species, many of them being rare and new to the Paris 

 Museum. 



12. Neumann's Notes on African Birds. 



[Notes on African Birds in the Tring Museum. By Oscar Neumann. 

 Nov. Zool. XV. p. 366 (1908).] 



Prof. Neumann begins his notes with a useful list of the 

 Musophagidse, of which he recognizes 32 species and sub- 

 species, belonging to the genera Corythtsola (1), Chizoerhis 

 (2), Corythaicoides (5), Gymnoschizorhis (3), Musophaga (2), 

 Ruwenzorornis (2), Gallirex (2), and Turacus (16). Nearly 

 all the Turaci are provided with three names, and the very 

 distinct Musophaga rossof is made a subspecies of M. violacea ! 

 Turacus livingstonei loitanus is a new subspecies from the 

 Loita Mountains, B.E.A. 



After disposing of the Touracos, Prof. Neumann gives us 

 his " List of the African Psittacidse,^^ with much information 

 about their localities, recognizing 31 species and subspecies. 

 Of these Posocephalus guUelmi fantiensis, P. meyeri nyansce 

 and Agapornis pullaria ugandae are described as new sub- 

 species. But he omits to mention Agapornis liliance and 

 A. nigrigenis, both excellent and well-marked species, 

 because, we suppose, they are not represented in the Tring 

 Museum. It would, however, have been well to mention 



