Recently jmbUshed OrnithoJocjical Works. IGl 



4. Cooke's ' Birds of Colorado.' 



[The Birds of Colorado. By W. W. Cooke. State Agricultural 

 College, Bulletin no. 37, 1897.] 



Mr. Cooke's list of the 365 birds of the State of Colorado 

 as yet known, with his remarks on the mode and date of 

 their occurrence and other particulars, seems to be a useful 

 and well-prepared piece of work. It is arranged according to 

 the order and nomenclature of the American Code, and is 

 accompanied by a complete Bibliography of Colorado Orni- 

 thology. Mr. Cooke asks us to say that copies of it may be 

 obtained gratis by addressing the Director of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. 



5. Forbes and Robinson on the Parrots of the Derby 

 Museum. 



[Catalogue of Parrots in the Derby Museum. By H. 0. Forbes and 

 II. C. Robinsou. Bull. Liverpool Mus. vol. i. no. 1, p. 5.] 



The energetic Director of the Liverpool Museums has 

 started a new periodical " to make known the contents of 

 the municipal Museums, to publish the results of the in- 

 vestigations carried on in the laboratories attached to them, 

 and to record the observations made on the animals living in 

 the Aquarium.^' The introductory remarks in the first 

 number give an account of the scope and history of the 

 municipal Museums, of which the " Derby " Museum con- 

 tains the Zoological, Botanical, Mineralogical, and Geological 

 Collections and an Aquarivim. The Derby Museum is, as 

 well known, rich in birds, containing among other series 

 the collection of the thirteenth Earl of Derby, formerly at 

 Knowsley, and the recently-acquired " Tristram Collection " 

 {cf Ibis, 1897, p. 488). Dr. Forbes, aided by Mr. H. C. 

 Robinson, is now engaged in arranging and cataloguing the 

 whole collection of birds, and in the first number of the 

 ' Bulletin ' gives us a catalogue of the specimens of Parrots 

 in it. The arrangement and nomenclature of the B. M. 

 Catalogue are followed. It is shown that the Derby Museum 

 contains 1258 specimens of this order, referable to 325 



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