262 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



coming within the limits of the work, of Icteridse 111, of 

 Coerebidse 29, and of Mniotiltidae 181, so that the volume 

 contains an account of 433 species and subspecies in all. 



The general plan of this volume is exactly the same as 

 that of the first; while the synonymy, descriptions of sexes 

 and their plumages, and full list of localities appended to 

 each species and subspecies, bear unfailing testimony to the 

 author's wonderful industry in compiling it. 



The third part of Mr. Ridgway's great work, we are 

 informed in the Preface, is " well under way," and is by this 

 time probably nearly ready for issue. It will continue the 

 account of the Oscines. The whole work will occupy some 

 eight volumes, which will appear at the rate of about two 

 a year. 



63. Rothschild and Hartert on Birds from the Solomon 

 Islands. 



[List of a Collection of Birds made on Ysabel Island, in the Solomon 

 Group, by Mr. A. S. Meek. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 581.] 



The authors continue their account of Mr. Meek's 

 collections in the Solomon group, this being their third 

 contribution on the subject. In the present paper 58 species 

 from Ysabel Island are enumerated, amongst which Edolio- 

 soma erythropygium saturatius, Cacomantis meeki > Cey.v meeki, 

 and Astur rufo-scltistaceus are described as new. Nasiterna 

 tristrami from Kulambangra is also described as new. 

 Other good novelties of this series {Pitta anerythra, Po- 

 dargus inexpectatus, and Pseudoptynx salomonensis) have 

 been already characterized in the ' Bulletin' of the B. O. C. 

 Pitta anerythra and Ceyx meeki are figured. 



64. Seebohm and Sharpe's ' Monograph of the Thrushes. 



[A Monograph of the Turdidaa, or Family of Thrushes. By the late 

 Henry Seabohm. Edited and completed (after the Author's death) by 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. Parts XII., XIII. Imperial 4to. 

 London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1902. Price £3 3s.] 



We have now before us the concluding double-number of 



