65.2 Recently published Ornitholugical Works. 



tunity of giving a synopsis o£ the five known species of this 

 abc-'iTant group of thin-billed Ploceidai. 



98. Oates's Game-Birds of India. 



[A Manual of the Game-Birds of India. Part II. Water-birds. By 

 E. W. Dates. 12mo. Bombay, 1899.] 



The second volume of Mr. Oates's handy little Manual of 

 the Game-birds of India (the first part of which we have 

 already noticed, Ibis 1898, p. 306) is now before us, and fully 

 deserves all the commendation we have bestowed on its 

 predecessor. It treats of the 37 Ansercs and 7 Limicolie 

 which occiir within the limits of the Indian Empire. Much 

 new matter is introduced into Mr. Oates's account of the 

 Anatidse, which deserves the careful attention of all ornitho- 

 logists interested in the group. A Goose from Japan^ Anser 

 mentalis, is described as new. 



99. Salvadori on Birds from British New Guinea. 



[Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia Orientale. — Intorno ad una 

 Piccola Collezione di Uccelli fatta lungo il Fiume Purari nella Nuova 

 Guinea Orientale-Meridionale. Per Tommaso Salvadori. Ann. JNJus. 

 Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, xix. p. 578.] 



Count Salvadori writes on the birds collected by Dr. L. 

 Loria on the Purari River, British New Guinea, in 1894. 

 The 26 specimens are referred to 23 species, of which one, 

 Ptilotis diops, is new, and another [Rhectes) is doubtfully 

 distinct, but it is nearest to R. analogus Meyer. 



100. Salvadori and Festa on Birds from Darien. 



[Viaggio del dott. E. Festa nel Darien e regioni vicine. T. Salvadori 

 ed E. Festa. Uccelli. Boll. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. Comp. R. Univ. 

 Torino, xiv. No. 339.] 



The collection of birds made by Dr. Festa at Darien, 

 Chiriqui, and other places in the vicinity consists of 202 

 specimens, referable to 121 species, of which a list is now 

 given. One of these [Rhamphoccelus festce) has been already 

 described as new. Two others, Euducinius albus and Chry^ 

 sotis inornaia, arc new to the district. 



