486 Recently published Or'nithological Works. - 



occupies more than its share with other zookigical matter. 

 Nearly every branch of Zoology is treated of; and tlie work 

 shows with what praiseworthy energy the scientific depart- 

 ments of these surveys have been^ and are, supported by the 

 United-States Government. 



64. Finsch's Collections from Siberia. 



[ Westsibirisclie Forscliimgsreise 1876 unter Fuliriing von J )r. O. Fiusch. 

 Catalog der Ausstelhmg ethnogi-aphiscber und naturwissenscliaftliclier 

 Samnilungen. Mit erlauternden Eemerkuugeu von Dr. O. Finscli. 8vo, 

 pp. 42. Bremen : 1877.] 



This catalogue is issued by the Geographical Society of 

 Bremen, and contains a list of the specimens of various kinds 

 obtained by the expedition sent during last year to Western 

 Siberia under the direction of our well-known Foreign Mem- 

 ber, Dr. Finsch. In the earlier part of this volume (pp. 48 

 -66) w411 be found ornithological letters, addresssd to us by 

 Dr. Fiusch from various points of the route taken. In the 

 present catalogue lists of the characteristic birds of the dif- 

 ferent districts visited are given, divided as follows — the 

 characteristic birds of the steppes, of the steppc-lakes, of the 

 high mountains, of the valley of the Ob, and of the " tundra '^ 

 region. A more complete account of the collection is, we 

 believe, being drawn up. 



65. Oustalet on new Species of Ibis. 



["Sur ime nouvelle espece d'Ibis (Ibis yigantea)^' and "Description 

 d'une nouvelle espece d'Ibis {Ibis harmandi).''^ BuU. Soc. Pbilomatbique, 

 7"'^ serie, i. pp. 25-30. Paris : Jan. 1877.] 



The first of these birds, indeed a giant amongst its kindred, 

 is described from a specimen in the Paris IVIuseum, which 

 was obtained by JMons. Harmand on the banks of the jVie- 

 kong river, in Cambodia. jVI. Oustalet compares it with 

 Ibis papulosa, which, however, it largely exceeds in dimen- 

 sions, in this respect approaching the size of Tantalus. The 

 second species appears to have l)een long represented in the 

 gallery of the Paris JVTuseum by a specimen obtained in 1862 

 by IM. Bocourt in the kingdom of Siam. Additional speci- 



