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form two volumes and issued (Brisbane: 1877) with title-pages. Many 
notices of Australian Birds by Dr. Ramsay, Messrs. A. J. North, K. H. 
Bennett and others are to be found in the Records of the Australian 
Museum, the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, of 
the Royal Society of Victoria and of that of Tasmania! Papers by Mr. 
Devis on the ornithology of British New Guinea have appeared in the 
Annual Reports on that Dependency presented to the parliament of 
Queensland, and in their original form are hardly accessible to the ordinary 
ornithologist. 
Coming to our Indian possessions, and beginning with Ceylon, we 
have Kelaart’s Prodromus Faunx Zeylanicxe (8vo, 1852), and the admirable 
Birds of Ceylon by Col. Legge (4to, 1878-80), with coloured plates by Mr, 
Keulemans of all the peculiar species. One can hardly name a book 
that has been more conscientiously executed than this. In regard to 
continental India many of the more important publications have been 
named in the body of this work (pages 356, 357), but Blyth’s Mammals 
and Birds of Burma (8vo, 1875) * should be especially noticed, as well as 
the fact that since the return of Mr. Oates to the East, the ornithological 
part of the Fauna of British India is being continued by Mr. Blanford, 
though Jerdon’s classical work will always remain of value, notwith- 
standing that it no longer reigns supreme as the sole comprehensive work 
on the Ornithology of the Peninsula.? 
In regard to South Africa there is little to be added to the works 
mentioned (pages 347, 351, 352); but in 1896 Capt. Shelley brought out 
a List of African Birds, which, it is hoped, may be the forerunner of a 
series of volumes on Ethiopian Ornithology. It is much to be regretted 
that of the numerous sporting books that treat of this part of the world 
so few give any important information respecting the Birds, 
Of special works relating to the British West Indies, Waterton’s 
well-known JVanderings has passed through several editions since its 
first appearance in 1825, and must be mentioned here, though, strictly 
speaking, much of the country he traversed was not British territory. 
To Dr. Cabanis we are indebted for the ornithological results of Richard 
Schomburgk’s researches given in the third volume (pp. 662-765) of the 
latter’s Reisen im Britisch-Guiana (8vo, 1848), and then to Léotaud’s 
Oiseaux de Vile de la Trinidad (8vo, 1866). Of the Antilles there is to 
be named Gosse’s excellent Birds of Jamaica (12mo0, 1847), together with 
its Illustrations (sm. fol. 1849) beautifully executed by him. A nominal 
1 Dr. Ramsay hasa Tabular List of Australian Birds (ed. 2, Sydney: 1888). 
Mr. North’s contributions have been chiefly on Nidification and Oology, though the 
ornithology of the recent ‘ Horn Expedition” has fallen to his share. Mr. Archibald 
J. Campbell's Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds (Melbourne: 1883) deserves 
especial mention. A convenient Manual of Australian Ornithology is still a great 
want, and, if supplied, would undoubtedly advance the knowledge of the wonderful 
bird-population of that country, and induce the inhabitants to take greater interest 
in it. But the work to be well done must be by Australian hands. 
* This is a posthumous publication, nominally forming an extra number of the 
Journal of the Asiatic Society. 
3 A multitude of papers, some very important, on Indian Ornithology, appeared 
in Stray Feathers, a periodical edited between 1877 and 1882 by Mr. A. O. Hume, 
of which the eleventh and last volume remains unfinished. 
