Recently published Ornithological Works. 623 



(2) Caratteri di due nuove specie di Uccelli di Fernando Po. [Per] 

 Tommaso Salvadori. Boll. Mus. d. Zool. e Anat. conip. d. II. Univ. 

 Torino, xviii. No. 442, 190:?.] 



The first of these papers concludes Count Salvadori's 

 memoir on the birds of the four islands in the Gulf of 

 Guinea (see above, p. 429) by an account of what is known of 

 the ornithology of Annobom and Fernando Po. In Annobom 

 Sig. Fea obtained 49 specimens of birds, which are referred 

 by Count Salvadori to 8 species. Two of these, Scops fea 

 and Haplopelia hypoleuca, are described as new. The author 

 reviews the known species of Annobom, including those 

 added by Sig. Fea's researches, and shews them to be 16 in 

 all, among which are 4 restricted to this island, so far as is at 

 present known. 



In Fernando Po, Sig. Fea suffered from bad health and 

 was not so successful, having obtained only two specimens of 

 Xylobucco scolopaceus. But in order to complete his subject 

 Count Salvadori reviews all the work that has been done on 

 the ornithology of this island up to the time of writing the 

 present paper, and shews that 146 species had been recorded 

 up to that date. As regards Capt. Alexander's recent 

 discoveries, Count Salvadori had only the short diagnoses of 

 new species issued in the Bulletin of the B. O. C. before him, 

 and not Capt. Alexander's complete account published in the 

 last number of this Journal. A very useful tabular com- 

 parative statement of the birds of the four islands concludes 

 an excellent memoir. 



The second paper contains short diagnoses of two new 

 species from Fernando Po (Speirops brunnea and Turdinus 

 bucayei) without further information. 



135. Sclater's Birds of South Africa. 



[The Fauna of South Africa. The Birds of South Africa. By W. L. 

 Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S., Director of the South African Museum, Cape Town. 

 Vol. III. London: li. II. Porter, 190:). Price 21s. net.] 



At the time of his sad death at Ladysmith, Stark had 

 finished his rough MS. for the second volume of the present 

 work (see ' Ibis,' 190-, p. 161), but had not commenced the 



