454 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



effect a landing. Numerous allusions to birds are made. 

 The official account of the expedition has been published in 

 the ' Transactions ' of the Academy, vol. xxxi. pt. 3, 1897 

 (see above, p. 302). 



75. Rothschild, Hartert, and Kleinschmidt on Comatibis 

 eremita. 



[^Comatibis eremita (Linn.), a European Bird. By Walter Rothschild, 

 Erust Ilartert, and 0. Kleinschmidt. Novitates Zool. iv. p. 371.] 



The discovery that Ibis comata (Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 329, 

 pi. 408) was formerly an inhabitant of certain localities in 

 Central Europe is exceedingly curious. But there seems to 

 be no doubt that the authors have made out their case, and 

 that this bird was really the Corvus sylvaticus of Gesner, upon 

 which Linnseus based his Upupa eremita. In Gesner's time 

 (1555) it nested among the rocks in Styria, Bavaria, and 

 Switzerland, as in these days it does in Morocco, Algeria, 

 and on the Upper Euphrates. 



7Q. Salvadori on a new Francolin. 



[Reliqiiie Ornitologiche della Spedizione Bottego. Per T. Salvadori, 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, xxxviii. p. 652.] 



Among the relics recovered of the unfortunate Bottego 

 Expedition in East Africa were three birdskins which were 

 sent to the IMuseo Civico of Genoa. One of them belongs 

 to a new Francolin, which is described as Francolinus bottegi. 

 It was obtained at Burgi among the Badditu in April 1896. 



77. Sanyal on Birds in the Alipur Zoological Gardens. 



[Note on the Breeding of various Birds (Herons and Cormorants) in a 

 Avild state in the Alipur Zoological Gardens. By Ram Brahma Sanyal. 

 Proc. A. Soc. Bengal, 1897, p. 86.] 



Ram Brahma Sanyal, C.M.Z.S., the well-known Super- 

 intendent of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens, describes the 

 flocks of wild Paddy-birds, Night-Herons, and Pigmy Cormo- 

 rants that resort to the ornamental waters of the gardens for 

 breeding and other purposes. To these have lately been 



