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Lists of 18 species of birds observed at Guanta, in Vene- 

 zuela, and of 35 identified at La Guayra, are added to the 

 present paper. It is quite evident that Lieut. Robinson is a 

 most enterprising and diligent collector and observer, but 

 we are not quite satisfied as to the '^new species/^ 



58. Salvadori on Birds from Deli, Sumatra. 



[Catalogo di una CoUezione di Uccelli delle viciuanze di Deli in Sumatra. 

 Per Tommaso Salvadori. Bull. Mus. Zool. Torino, xi. no. 250.] 



The examination of a collection of birds from Deli, on the 

 S.E. coast of Sumatra, has enabled Count Salvadori to add 

 four new species to the avifauna of that island. The col- 

 lection, which was sent for examination to Count Salvadori 

 by Prof. CoUett, of Christiania, contained altogether examples 

 of 109 species. 



59. Seebohm's Eggs of British Birds. 



[Coloured Fioures of the Eggs of British Birds, with Descriptive Notices. 

 By Henry Seebohm. Edited (after the author's death) by R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, LL.D. &c. Sheffield : Pawson & Brailsford, 1896.] 



A very short examination of Seebohm's figures of the 

 eggs of British birds is sufficient to convince us that we 

 have here to deal with a work of genuine merit, and that, 

 as the editor says in his preface, it is not necessary to go to 

 Germany for good chromolithography. The 59 coloured 

 plates are beautifully printed on tinted backgrounds. The 

 names of the birds are given in clear type under every 

 figure, so that it is not necessary to refer to the text for 

 their identification. The accompanying letterpress gives a 

 concise account of the range, mode of occurrence in Great 

 Britain, and breeding-habits of each species, prepared in our 

 lamented friend's well-known style. 



Dr. Sharpe contributes a memoir of the author, mainly 

 written from personal reminiscences, besides a preface and 

 the general supervision of the text, which he believes to be 

 presented to the public nearly as the author '' would have 

 wished it to be issued." The result, in our opinion, forms 

 an excellent memorial of the deceased : nothing more suitable 



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