9Q Short JS^otices of Ormthohni'ical PnhJ'icai'ions. 



of 25 enlarged photogravures of wild birds taken in Uganda, 

 accompanied ])y a brief descriptive letterpress. The book is 

 published by Bale Sons & Danielsson, at 31.f. Cx?. net. 



ib Av'icidtural 2Jar/azine. January to August 1011. 



In these nundx'rs there appears little of sjiecial interest to 

 South African ornithologists beyond a pa])cr on the Broni- 

 vogel (^Ducorvus caffer') by Mr. W. L. Sclater, illustrated by 

 a photographic plate. A series of articles entitled " Hints 

 on Practical Bird-keeping " are of consideral)]e interest and 

 value to bird-keepers. 



10. llie Ibis, a Quart rrli/ Journal of Orn!tJioIo;p/. 



The April ll'll issue of the ever-green 'Il)is' contains 

 Part I. of a valuable paper by Mr. W. L. Sclater on the 

 birds collected by Mr. Claude H. B. Grant during a four- 

 and-three-quarter-years' collecting in various parts of South 

 Africa. The cost of this much-needed zoological ex))loi'ati()n 

 was entirely borne by Mr. C. D. Rudd, a well-known Cape- 

 tonian, and it is extremely to be regretted that this gentleman, 

 who made his home in South Africa for many years, should 

 not have arranged that at least half of the material collected 

 should have remained in the country. The collections 

 totalled — besides mammal skins- — 3527 birds, representing 

 591 species, about two-thirds of tlie known number of 

 species inhabiting South Africa They were C(dlected in 

 six localities, viz. Little Namaf|ualand, ('ape Town district, 

 Knysna district, Natal and Ziduland. Tians\aa], and l\:)rtu- 

 guese East Africa. Eight new species were obtained, of 

 which six have already been described in the ' l?ulletin 

 B. 0. Club,' and noticed in these pages. Two additional sub- 

 species are now described in this paper : Pratiiwola torquata 

 orientalis and Cossi//>lia cajfra namarpi^nsis. The classifi- 

 cation and nomenclature follow almost exactly th(> author's 

 " Check-list of the Birds of South Africa," i)ubiished in I'.H)') 

 as a number of the 'Annals of the TranK\nal IVIuseum.' 



