Recently published Ornithological Works. 167 



account of Biro's first collection^ which embraces examples of 

 61 species. Of these 128 were not obtained by Fenichel, and 

 one Fruit-pigeon [Ptilopus biroi) is described and figured as 

 new. It is nearest to P.jobiensis. 



13. Madardsz on Birds from Ceylon. 



[Die ornithologischen Ergebuisse meiner Reise nacb Ceylon. Von 

 Dr. Julius V. Madarasz. Budapest, 1897. (Term. Fiiz. vol. xx.)] 



Dr. Madarasz undertook a zoological expedition to Ceylon 

 in 1896 on behalf of the Hungarian National Museum, and, 

 with the assistance of his staff, made large collections, wliich 

 were mostly amassed at a bungalow on Lake Kalawewa, in 

 the centre of the island. The 294 specimens of birds thus 

 obtained are referred in the present paper to 125 species, 

 concerning which many interesting notes are given. The 

 Indian ornithologists, and in particular Capt. Legge by his 

 excellent Monograph, have made the birds of Ceylon well 

 known to naturalists, but Dr. Madarasz is able to contribute 

 some few corrections in the determination of them. Three 

 plates supply figures of the heads of Polioaetus ichthyaetus, 

 Spizaetus melanotis, Ocyceros gingalensis, Rhopodytes viridi- 

 rostris, and Hydrophasianus chirurgus, coloured from life, 

 and of the heads and feet of P lotus melanog aster (adult and 

 young), of which a colony was found breeding on Lake 

 Kalawewa. 



14. Marchant and Watkins's Wild Birds Protection Acts. 



[Wild Birds Protection Acts 1880-1896. By J. R. V. Marchant, M.A. 

 (Oxon.), of Gray's Inn, and Watldn Watkins, B.A. (Cantab.), of the Inner 

 Temple, Member of tlie British Ornithologists' Union ; both of the Oxford 

 Circuit, Barristers at Law. Second edition. 8vo. London, 1897 

 (R. H. Porter).] 



Messrs. Marchant and Watkins have conferred a benefit 

 on ornitliologists by the issue of this volume, the object of 

 which is "to explain the provisions of the Wild Birds Pro- 

 tection Acts now in force, and of the Statutory Orders made 

 at the instance of local authorities under these Acts.'' The 

 whole subject is a most complicated one, but we think that 



