130 Recently published Oniitholoyical Works. 



of the results of Dr. Stejneger's ''inconvenient discoveries/^ 

 in which we trust that no one will follow him. 



The birds of all this district have been collected in mass 

 by Mr. Hume and his assistants, and by many other Indian 

 ornithologists. Mr. Richmond nevertheless ventures to 

 describe a new Blue-throat, Cyanecula abhotti, from the Nubra 

 Valley, Ladak, where C suecica was also obtained. It is 

 admitted to be " very closely related to the White-spotted 

 Blue-throat, Cyanecula wolfi," but is stated to differ " in the 

 deeper blue of the throat, the blue lores, and the longer bill.^^ 

 It is, probably, the Cyanecula wolfi of Hume, Biddulph, and 

 others, from the same countries. 



21. Ridyway on Birds from the Seychelles and adjoining 

 Islands. 



[On Birds collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott in tbe Seychelles, Amirantes, 

 Gloriosa, Assumption, Aldabra, and adjacent Islands, with Notes on 

 Habits, &c., by the Collector. By Robert Ridgway. Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. xviii. p. 509.] 



We have now a complete report upon the specimens of 

 birds collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott, of Philadelphia, on 

 the Seychelles and other islands of the Indian Ocean 

 and transmitted to the National Museum at Washington. 

 Mr. Ridgway has already published characters of the 

 principal novelties (see Ibis, 1894, p. 314; 1895, p. 292). 



The specimens were 264 in number, and represent, as 

 Dr. Abbott believes, almost all the species found in the 

 islands visited. "No land-birds exist, unless introduced, 

 on any of the Amirantes or other islands between the 

 Seychelles and Cosmoledo and Aldabra.-" In Aldabra 

 14 land-birds were found resident, and 6 others (accidental 

 visitors) were obtained. 



In tlie list of Seychelles birds, 27 species are included. 

 Amongst these was one example of Palceornis wardi from 

 Mahe, where it is " on the verge of extinction," but it is 

 said to be still common on Silhouette. A provisional name 

 {Turtur ab-botti) is given to the local form of T. picturatus. 

 On the Amirante group examples of 24 species were met 



