Recently published Ornithological Works. 239 



16. Brown's Travels in British Guiana. 



[Canoe and Camp-life in British Guiana. By C. Barrington Brown, 

 Assoc. R.S.M., late Government Surveyer in British Guiana. 1 vol. 8vo. 

 London, Stanford : 1876.] 



This interesting narrative of Mr. Brown's various excur- 

 sions while executing his office of Surveyor of British Guiana 

 is replete with notes and observations on natural history. 

 Many of these relate to birds, such as those on Rhynchops 

 (p. 95) J Chasmorhynchus variegatus (p. 123)"^^ Sturnella ludo- 

 viciana (p. 167), Acanthylis collaris (p. 219), Canci^oma co- 

 chlearia (p. 257), and Opisthocomus cristatus. Mr. Brown 

 is well known to geographers as the discoverer of the cele- 

 brated Kaieteur waterfall on the Upper Essequibo, which 

 appears to be frequented by '' myriads of millions " of a large 

 Swift [Acanthylis collaris sive zonaris). The nesting-place 

 of Steatornis, in a cave on the Upper Mazaruni (see p. 286), 

 is, so far as we are aware, quite a new discovery, as are like- 

 wise the nesting-habits of Ortalida motmot and Odontophorus 

 guianensis (p. 371) . The explanation of the curiously formed 

 wing-feathers of Penelope pipile (p. 387) is likewise new to us. 



17. Ornithological Results of the 'Gazelle' Expedition. 



[Uebersicht der auf der Expedition Sr. Maj. Schiif '' Gazelle ' gesam- 

 melten Vogel. Zusammengestellt von J. Cabanis und A. Reiclienow. 

 Journ. f. Oru. 1876, p. .3191.] 



The German S.S. ^ Gazelle ' conveyed the astronomers of 

 that nation to Kerguelen's Land for the observation of the 

 Transit of Venus in December 1875. A large collection of 

 birdskins, birds in spirit, skeletons, and eggs was formed 

 during the voyage, principally by Dr. Hiisker, the medical 

 officer, in the above-named island, and in other places visited 

 during the voyage round the world (Fiji Islands, ISTew Ire- 

 land, New Hanover, Timor, and New Guinea). Altogether 

 examples of 143 species of birds were obtained, which are 

 enumerated by Messrs. Cabanis and Beichenow in the present 



* On the discovery of this species in British Guiana, see Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 462. 



t We may remark that the number containing this paper, although 

 dated " July 1876," was not issued to the subscribers uutil January 1877 ! 



