Recently published Ornithological Works. 129 



Mr. Reed increases the list of llie birds of Chili to 278, that is 

 23 more than James^ as he enlarges the area of Chili down 

 to the Magellan Straits, to which it nominally extends. 



There are a good many unnecessary misprints in the 

 scientific names of the list, and we can assure Mr. Reed that 

 Henicornis phcenicura of Patagonia is quite a distinct species 

 from H. melanura of Chili {cf. Cat. B. xvi. p. 26), as he would 

 at once allow if he had ever seen specimens of it. 



19. Reichenow on Papuan and Australian Birds. 



[Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen 

 Archipel. Mit Unterstiitzung des Herrn Dr. Paul von Ritter ausgefiihrt 

 in den Jaliren 1891-93 von Dr. Richard Semon. Liste der Viigel. 

 Bestimmt von Dr. A. Reichenow. Folio. Jena, 1894.] 



The first number of the fifth volume of Dr. Semon's 

 great work on the results of his journey in Australia and 

 the Malay Archipelago contains a list, compiled by Dr. 

 Reichenow, of about 50 species of birds of which Dr. Semon 

 obtained specimens. There appears to be nothing specially 

 remarkable amongst them. 



20. Richmond on Birds from Kashmir, Baltistan, and 

 Ladak. 



[Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made in Kashmir, Baltistan, and 

 Ladak, with Notes on some of the Species and a Description of a new 

 Species of Cyanecula. By Charles W. Richmond. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. 

 xviii. p. 451.] 



Dr. W. L. Abbott, of Philadelphia, well known to natural- 

 ists for his explorations in East Africa, the Seychelles, and 

 the adjoining islands, spent part of the years from 1891 to 

 1894 in travel in Cashmir and the neighbouring districts of 

 Northern India. Hence he sent home to the U.S. National 

 Museum 746 well-prepared specimens of birds, which are 

 now catalogued by Mr. Richmond and referred to 188 

 species. Mr, Richmond has for convenience used the 

 sequence of families and genera employed by Dr. Sharpe in 

 his account of the birds of the second Yarkand Mission, but 

 has varied the nomenclature in places by introducing some 



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