148 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



28. Seebohm's ^ Monograph of the Thrushes ' *. 



[A Monograph of the Tuvdidfe, 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 IV. Imperial 4to. 

 London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1898.] 



In Part IV. o£ this beautiful monograph, which was 

 issued in October last, the account of the typical Turdi 

 (according to Seebohm's views) is continued. We agree 

 with the Editor that Turdus herminieri of Guadalonpe and 

 its representatives in the adjacent islands ought not to be 

 included in the genus Turdus, though Dr. Stejneger was 

 probably correct in his view that they are Thrushes and 

 not Mock-birds, Dr. Sharpe has elevated all the American 

 subspecies of the " swainsoni " group to specific rank, and 

 makes no less than seven species of them. It would be very 

 difficult, in our opinion, to recognize specimens of several of 

 these alleged species unless the localities were attached to them. 



The following species are figured in this part : — Turdus 

 herminieri, T. dominicensis, T. iliacus, T. musicus, T. auritus, 

 T. viscivoriis, T. mustelinus, T. fuscescens, T. alicice, T. audu- 

 boni, T. pilaris, T. jamaicensis. 



29. Sharpens ' Moyiograph of the Paradiseidse,* 



[Monograph of the Puradiseidcs, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilono- 

 rhynchidce, or Bower-birds. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. 

 Part VHI. Folio. London : H. Sotheran & Co., 1898.] 



This is the closing part of Dr. Bowdler Sharpens Monograph 

 of the Paradise-birds and Bower-birds, and we congratulate 

 him on bringing these two splendid volumes to so early and 

 so satisfactory a close. The first volume, as completed, 

 treats of 44 species, the second of 52. In his preface, in 

 which the whole subject is reviewed. Dr. Sharpe, although 

 he adopts the Paradiseidse and the Ptilonorhynchidse as dis- 

 tinct families, confesses his inability, when taking them in 

 conjunction with the Corvidse, to separate them by satis- 

 factory characters. In the general arrangement, the Para- 

 diseidse are taken first and divided into two subfamilies, the 



* Cf. ' Ibis,' 1898, p. 623. 



