Recently published Ornithological Works. 123 



problems in the faunas of both countries. Hitherto we have 

 had no work to refer to on this subject^ except De Filippi's 

 ' Note di un Viaggio in Persia/ and various smaller memoirs 

 and fragmentary notices. Mr. Blanford bases his work mainly 

 on the collections made by Major St. John^ with the assist- 

 ance of a native collector from the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 in the years 1869-71, together Avith those formed by himself 

 in 1872 during the expedition of which an account is given 

 in the first volume of the present work. As regards birds, 

 the united collections contained 1236 specimens, belonging 

 to 248 species, mostly from Southern Persia and Baluchistan, 

 Mr. Blanford, however, has not failed to work up the refer- 

 ences to birds collected or observed in Persia by previous 

 travellers, so as to make his ornithological account of the 

 country as complete as possible. Still the number of species 

 as yet ascertained to inhabit Persia (384) is, as Mr. Blanford 

 observes, not large, and it is probable that further research 

 will add greatly to the list. 



The new species discovered by Mr. Blanford and his coad- 

 jutors in Persia have been already described in ^The Ibis^^. 

 Mr. Blanford now gives us excellent figures from Mr. Keu- 

 lemans^s pencil of many of these novelties, which serve to set 

 oflP his attractive volume. In fine we may say that Blan- 

 ford^s ' Zoology of Persia ' is indispensable to the student of 

 Palsearctic ornithology. 



8. Finsch's ' Ornithology of the Pacific Islands ' : Part ii. 



[Zur Ornitliologie der Siidsee-Inseln. II. Uebei- neue imd weniger 

 gekaunte Vogel von deu Viti-, Samoa- und Carolineu Inseln, von Dr. Otto 

 Finsch in Bremen. Journal des Museum Godetfroy. Heft xii. 4to. 

 Hamburg: 1876.] 



In this memoir Dr. Finsch continues his account of the 

 ornithological novelties obtained by the collectors of the Mu- 

 seum Godeffroy in the Fiji, Samoau, and Carolina Islands, 

 in his usual excellent style. The new species described are : — 

 Ptilotis wanthophrys from the Navigators^, and Zosterops po- 

 napensis, Volvocivora insjjerata, Myiagra pluto, Rhipidura 



* See Ibis, 1873, pp. 86-90, 225-227 ; 1874, pp. 225-227. 



