452 Recently published Ornitkolugical Works. 



list is far from complete, and the advertisements inserted in 

 the middle of the text are sad blots to it. 



71. Nelson on new Birds from Tres Marias Islands. 



[Descriptions of new Birds from tlie Tres Marias Islands, Western 

 Mexico. By E. W. Nelson. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xii. p. 5.j 



The specimens on which these descriptions are based were 

 obtained by the author and Mr. E. A. Goldman, his assistant, 

 during a visit to the Tres Marias group off the west coast of 

 Mexico, in May 1897. The species and subspecies are 

 named : — Columba flavirostris madrensis, Leptotila (scr. 

 Leptojjtila) capitalis, Buteo horealis fumosus, Polyborus 

 cheriway pallidus, Trogon ambiguus goldmani, Nyctidromus 

 albicollis insularis, Myiopagis placens minimus, Cardinalis 

 cardinalis maria, Vireo hypochryseus sordidus, Melanotus 

 cariilescens longirostris, and Thryothorus lawrencii magdalence. 

 All these are from Maria Madre Island, except the last, 

 which is from Magdalena. A complete account of this most 

 interesting insular avifauna is in preparation. 



72. Neumann on the Birds of Eastern Equatorial Africa. 



[Elephant-hunting in East Equatorial Africa, being an account of 

 three Years' Ivory-hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo 

 Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a Trip to the North End of 

 Lake Rudolph. By Arthur H. Neumann. With numerous Illustrations 

 by J. G. Millais, E. Caldwell, and G. E. Lodge. Coloured Plate and 

 Map. Royal 8vo. London : Rowland Ward, 1898.] 



Mr. Neumann's recently-published account of his ex- 

 plorations and huntings in the northern portion of British 

 East Africa, although chiefly devoted to elephants and the 

 larger mammals, contains several interesting notices of birds, 

 and is well worthy of perusal. Mr. Neumann refers more 

 than once to the occurrence of birds on Lake Rudolph, " in 

 astonishing numbers and great variety " — " Pelicans sitting 

 sleepily on the water and shoals, secure from crocodiles (for 

 I watched one swim through a flock), or flying in skeins to 

 and fro ; flocks of Gulls and Terns ; Storks, Herons of various 

 kinds, Ibises, Egrets, and many other small Waders, with 



