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cal kevs to the species and families facilitate identification. The work 

 opens with a short historical introduction, giving an account of the 

 ornithological exploration of the large area under consideration, with 

 a bibliography of 8i titles of works relating to the ornithology of East 

 Africa. This is followed by several pages devoted to the geographical 

 and faunal relations of the region, and quite extended instructions as 

 to methods of collecting and preparing specimens, and to the explana- 

 tion of the terms used (illustrated with cuts) in the descriptions which 

 follow. The illustrations are process-cuts, giving full length figures of 

 generallv one characteristic species for each family, with many additional 

 figures of heads and other parts, many of them colored. The biblio- 

 graphical references are mainly restricted to the original place of 

 description of the species. Thus the work, while reduced to small 

 coinpass, will serve as a very useful handbook to the birds of a still 

 very imperfectly known region. — ^J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — Buttikofer, J. (i) On two new Birds of 

 Paradise. (Notes from the Leyden Museum, XVI, pp. 161-165.) (2) On 

 the Immature Dress of Alicroglossus aterrimus. (^Ibtd., pp. 166-167.) 



Chapman, Frank M. Visitors' Guide to the Local Collection of Birds 

 in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. With an 

 annotated List of the Birds known to occur within fifty miles of New York 

 City. 8vo.,pp. 100, 4 pll. and 36 cuts in text. 1S94. 



Clarke, William Eagle. On some Birds from the Island of Negros, 

 Philippines. (Ibis, Oct., 1894.) 



Fischer, Moritz. Rules of Nomenclature adopted by the International 

 Zoological Congress, held in Moscow, Russia, 1892. (Am. Nat., Nov., 

 1894.) 



Keyser, Leander S. In Bird Land. i2mo., pp. 269. Chicago^ 1894. 



Lucas, Frederic A. Notes on the Anatomy and Affinities of the 

 Cctrebida- and other American Birds. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, 

 1S94, pp. 299-312.) 



Madarasz, Julius von. Die Nester des Nusshahers {jVi/rifrc/o-d rcrrvo- 

 cdtdctcs.) (Aquila, 1894.) 



Menzbier, M. A. Ornithologie du Turkestan, et des Pays adjacen.s. , 

 Livr. 4, with atlas. 



Merriam, C Hart. Report of the Ornithologist and Mammalogist for 

 1893. (Rep. Secretary of Agric. for 1893.) 



Meyer, A. B. (i) Neue Vogel aus dem Ostindischen Archipel. (Abh. 

 u. Ber. des kon. Zool. 11. Anthr.-Ethn. Mus. zu Dresden, 1894-95 ; No. 2.) 

 (2) Ein hennenfedriger (thelyider) Auerhahn. (^Ibid., No. 3). 



Meyer, A. B., and L. W. Wiglesworth. (i) Neue Vogel von Celebes. 

 {Ibid., No. 4.) (2) Ueber eine erste Sammhmg von \'ogeln von den 

 Tolaut Inseln. (Journ. fiir Orn., July, 1894.) 



Parkhurst, II. E. The Birds' Calendar. i2ino., pp. 349, pll. 24. New 

 "^'ork, 1894. 



