Recently published Ornithological Works. 479 



belonging to the five families treated of in the present volume 

 is 367, of which 315 are represented (by 2014 specimens) in 

 the British Museum. The new generic terms used are 7 in 

 number — namely, Heterocorax, Rhinocorax, Microcorax, Ma- 

 crocorax, Pseudorectes, Melanorectes, and Pinarolestes. The 

 species described as new are Strepera intermedia, Psilo- 

 rhinus cyanogenys, Phonygama jamesii, Oriolus diffusus, O. 

 steerii, Sphecotheres salvadorii, Irena melanochlamys, I. cri- 

 niger, I. tweeddalii, Rectes tibialis, R. aruensis, CoUyriocincla 

 paUidirostris, Bradyornis woodwardi, and B. diabolicus — 14 in 

 all, besides several " subspecies." 



In concluding this short notice of a most important work, 

 we cannot but congratulate Mr. Sharpe upon the energy he 

 has displayed in attacking the formidable task of a general 

 descriptive catalogue of birds, and express our sincere hopes 

 that he may be able to bring it to a successful conclusion. 



56. Sharpens Birds of Kerguelen's Island. 



[Transit-of- Venus Expedition. Zoology. — Birds. By R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 4to, pp. G2, pis. vi.-viii.] 



Mr. Sharpe's share of this paper relates chiefly to the no- 

 menclature of the species included in it, and to the labour of 

 getting together all previous information respecting the birds 

 of Kerguelen Island. The Rev. E. A. Eaton, the naturalist 

 attached to the English Transit Expedition to this place, has 

 furnished copious field-notes on the species observed by him, 

 which considerably enhance the interest of the paper. The 

 nesting-habits of many of the birds are also fully described 

 by him ; and the memoir gives a very complete account of the 

 ornithology of this island, A good deal of the ground traversed 

 in the papers on the same subject by Drs. Kidder and Coues, 

 and Drs. Cabanis and Eeichenow, the former of whom de- 

 scribed the ornithology relating to the American, the latter 

 to the German Transit Expedition, is necessarily gone over 

 again. But, besides incorporating the labours of his imme- 

 diate predecessors, Mr. Sharpe has very properly added an 

 account of all the available materials collected by the Ant- 

 arctic Expedition to which Sir J. Hooker was attached, as 



