1890.] ■ .'^/J;v,s^«. 105 



Empire probably unrivalled by that in existence for any other portion 

 of the world of similar extent. 



Mr Hume has published another volume of his " Stray Feathers," 

 containing his long-looked-for accou.nt of the birds of Manipur and 

 Assam : a completion of this important memoir is promised in the last 

 part that will ever appear of " Stray Feathers." 



Mr. Menzbier has commenced the publication of a woi'k entitled 

 " Ornithologie du Turkestan," which is expected to extend to six quarto 

 volumes illustrated by 90 coloured plates. The notes and descriptions 

 in this work are mainly founded on material accumulated by the late 

 N. A. Severtzoff. 



Mr. Seehohm has published a handsomely illustrated quarto work 

 on the Family Charadridce, which is characterized by that author's 

 original treatment of his subject, and which necessarily notices many 

 Plovers, Sandpipers and Snipes of interest to Indian Ornithologists. 



Mr. F. H. Waterhouse has published " a list of the Genei-aof Birds " 

 which cannot fail to be of great assistance to every one w^orking at Or- 

 nithology, and the third part of the second volume of the " Avifauna of 

 India," by Mr. J. A. Murray, has appeared during the course of the year. 

 The Ibis has, as usual, a large number of articles bearing more or 

 less directly upon Asiatic Ornithology. Mr. Dresser gives notes on 

 the birds of the Transcaspian region, collected by Dr. G. Radde, and de- 

 scribes a new Shrike comprised in the collection, under the name of 

 Lanins Raddei. Mr. Ogilvie Grant contributes two papers dealing with 

 revisions of the genera Flatalea, or Spoonbills, and Turnix, or Bustard- 

 quails. Col. Sir 0. St. John publishes a paper on the Birds of Southern 

 Afghanistan and Kelat, in which he enumerates 237 species observed 

 by him in the Afghan Province of Kandahar and the Bi'itish Provinces 

 of Pishin and Thai Chotiali, with Quetta and Kelat proper. In conti- 

 nuation of his notes on the Woodpeckers, Mr. E. Hargitt describes 

 a new species, Ghrysophlegma humii, from Malacca and Salangore. 

 Mr. Gates gives a note on the European Cuckoo and its Indian allies, 

 and points out how they may be most certainly discriminated. Mr. 

 Seebohm continues his important studies on the classification of birds, 

 and deals with the Ardeino-anserine and Pico-passerine groups of birds. 

 He also famishes a list of the birds of the Bonin Islands. Messrs. Sharpe 

 and Whitehead have published five parts of a valuable contribution 

 to the Ornithology of Northern Borneo, with illustrations of new species 

 described by Mr. Sharpe. Mr. Whitehead also gives a paper on the 

 birds of Palawan. 



In the Tramactions of the Linnean Sociehj, the Birds of the Afghan 

 Boundary Commis.sion are enumerated by Mr. Sharpe. Only three 



