426 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



is a wonderful country for Birds-of-prey. You may travel 

 for leagues, and see no signs of life but Chimangos, Car- 

 ranchos, and Condors. Mr. Millais's life-like illustrations 

 provide an additional charm to the work. 



99. Richmond on Birds from the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Islands. 



[Birds collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott and Mr. C. B. Kloss in the 

 Andaman and Nicobar Islands. By Charles W. Richmond. Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. xxv. pp. 287-314 (1902).] 



The collection of birds made by Dr. Abbott and Mr. Kloss 

 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the early part of 

 1891 contained about 520 specimens, which are referred by 

 Mr. Richmond to nearly 100 species. Of these nine " appear 

 to be new " — namely, Zosterops ventralis, Sturnia erythro- 

 pygia katchalensis , Rhinomyias nicobarica, Arachnechthra 

 klossi, Pitta abbotti, Spilornis klossi, Astur obsoletus, Osmo- 

 treron chloroptera andamanica,and E.vca/factoria trinkatensis. 

 We venture to express a doubt whether it is justifiable to 

 describe these supposed "new species" without consulting 

 Mr. Hume's collections now in the British Museum. We 

 are sure also that such a well-known journal as that of the 

 Bombay Natural History Society ought not to be pronounced 

 "inaccessible" at Washington, and that Mr. Butler's recent 

 paper on the Andamans should have been consulted before 

 the publication of the present article. We are pleased, 

 however, that Mr. Richmond is content to follow the arrange- 

 ment of the ' Fauna of British India/ and does not turn the 

 sequence of the species upside down ! Dr. Abbott may be 

 congratulated on having got examples of the Pitta of the 

 Nicobars (P. abbotti), which Mr. Hume saw but did not 

 obtain. 



Mr. Kloss has lately published an interesting account of 

 his experiences during this voyage (' In the Andamans and 

 Nicobars/ London, Murray, 1903), which we can cordially 

 recommend to our readers. There are numerous allusions to 

 birds in it. 



