Recently imblished Ornithological Wo7-ks. 455 



added a few Snake-birds [Plotus mclanog aster), which it is 

 trusted will also be induced to make their uests there. 



78. Seebohmi's ' Monograph of the Thrushes.'' 



[A Monograph of the Turdidse, or Family of Thrushes. By the late 

 Henry Seebohm. Edited and completed (after the Author's death) by 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. Part II. Imperial 4to. London : 

 Henry Sotherau & Co., 1898.] 



The second part of this beautifully-illustrated monograph 

 (see above,, p. 309) continues the account of the Geocichline 

 group of ThrusheSj and contains figures of the following 

 species : — Geocichla piaggia, G. machiki, G. peronii, G. ery- 

 thronota, G. interpres, G. dohertyi, G. leucolcema, G. cyanonota, 

 G. albigularis, G. citrina, G. innotata, G. andamanensis, G. ru- 

 becula, G. aurata, G. everetti, and G. monticola. 



79. Somow on the Birds of Kharkow. 



[Faune ornithologique du gouvernemeut de Kharkow. Par N. Somow. 

 Pp. i-ix, 1-680. 8vo. Kharkow, 1897.] 



This is a systematic work of 680 pages octavo on the birds 

 of the Government of Kharkow in Southern Russia. It is 

 in Russian, with only the scientific names in Latin. We 

 cannot, therefore, say much more of it than that 292 species 

 are included in the avifauna. 



80. Worcester and Bourns on Philippine Ornithology. 



[Contributions to Philippine Ornithology. By Dean C. Worcester and 

 Frank S. Bourns. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xx. p. 549.] 



This essay, which seems to have been written mainly by 

 IVIr. Worcester, should be studied carefully, not only by those 

 interested in the ornithology of the Philippines, but also by 

 all who are concerned in the subjects of Distribution and 

 Geographical Variation, in which, as is well known, the 

 group of islands in question furnishes an ample field of obser- 

 vation. The first part of it contains a list of the birds as yet 

 ascertained to inhabit the Philippine and Palawan groups, 

 and shows their occurrence or absence in 37 islands of the 



