T.T.2 Recent Literature. Ijuly 



Shelley's 'Birds of Africa,' Vol. IV, Pt. II. 1 — The second part of 

 volume IV, completing the volume, follows very promptly Part I, noticed 

 in the April number of this Journal (Auk, XXII, pp. 228, 229), concluding 

 the family Ploceiidae and carrying the species from No. 523 to No. 646. 

 The seven colored plates, by H. Gronwold, beautifully illustrate fourteen 

 species. We are glad to see the good progress which now marks this 

 great undertaking, the scope and character of which have been fully 

 explained in our notices of the earlier parts. — J. A. A. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Walter E. Bryant, a Corresponding Fellow of the American Orni- 

 thologist's Union, died in San Francisco, Cal., May 21, 1905. A bio- 

 graphical notice of Mr. Bryant will appear in a later number of this 

 Journal. 



Adolphe Boucard, a well-known ornithological explorer and collector, 

 and the author of many papers and works on birds and insects, died at 

 the residence of his son, 24 Stanley Gardens, Hampstead, N. W., England, 

 March 15, 1905, at the age of 66 years. He was born in France in 1S39, 

 but passed the later years of his life at his villa near Ryde, in the Isle of 

 Wight. He collected extensively in the different countries of Central 

 America and in southern Mexico, where he lived for many years. There 

 are probably few large museums which do not contain many examples 

 of his beautifully prepared bird-skins. His ornithological publications 

 comprise ' Catalogus Avium hucusque descriptarum ' (1S76), ' Genera of 

 Hummingbirds' (1893-95), and various papers in 'The Ibis,' the 'Pro- 

 ceedings ' of the Zoological Society of London, and elsewhere. In 1S91 

 he began the publication of an ornithological journal called ' The Hum- 

 mingbird,' of which five volumes were completed. The greater part of 

 his large collection of birds, numbering about 25,000 specimens and 

 including many types, was presented to the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, of 

 Paris, in 1S95. 



1 The I Birds of Africa, | comprising all the species which occur | in the | 

 Ethiopian Region. | By | G. E. Shelley, F. Z. S., F. R. G. S., &c. | (Late 

 Grenadier Guards), | Author of "A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, " | " A 

 Monograph of the Sun-Birds," etc. | — | Vol. IV. | Part II. | — | London : | 

 Published for the Author by | R. H. Porter, 7, Princes Street, Cavendish 

 Square, W. | 1905. — Roy. 8vo, pp. vi + 289-511, pll. col. xxxvi-xlii. Price 

 31s. 6d. net. 



