470 Recently puhlhhed Ormthologicnl TVorkfi. 



brated traveller Pliilibcrt Commersou, and of Julien Des- 

 jardins, entrusted to Dr. Oustalet by M. Milne-Edwards, 

 have led to the production of this excellent memoir, in which 

 is summed up all that we know at present of the birds of 

 Mauritius, both now existing and recently extinct, and much 

 information about the birds of the other Mascarene Islands. 

 After a full account of Commerson, his life and adven- 

 tures and MSS., Dr. Oustalet gives us a list of the most 

 remarkable birds of the Mascarene group, including all those 

 hitherto known from Mauritius, and dissertations on each 

 of them. Altogether, 89 species are enumerated and com- 

 mented upon. 



83. Quelch on Miyratory Birds in British Guiana. 



[Migratory Birds iu British Guiana. By J. J. Quelch, B.Sc. (Lond.), 

 C.M.Z.S. ' Timehri; new ser. vol. x. p. 268 (1896).] 



Mr. Quelch devotes 20 pages of ' Timehri ' to an excellent 

 article on the migratory birds of British Guiana, to M'hich 

 he has paid special attention. After alluding to cases of 

 local migration, he passes to " migratory birds proper " 

 which come south every year to avoid the northern winter, 

 and among these particularly to the Grallae, great flights 

 of which make their appeai^ance in British Guiana at the 

 end of August and the beginning of September. There, as 

 in England, the shooting-season begins on September the 1st, 

 the five previous mouths having been declared by law to be 

 a close season throughout the colony. About that time 

 multitudes of Golden Plovers [Charadrius virginicus) , Turn- 

 stones, Ring-Plovers (/Egialilis), Yellowshanks, Curlews, 

 Sandpipers, and Sanderlings make their appearance and 

 become the prey of the active gunner. Mr. Quelch passes 

 these species in review one by one, and points out their chief 

 peculiarities, begging at the same time for sets of specimens 

 of them for the Georgetown Museum. 



84. Reichenow on the Birds of Togoland. 



[Zur Vogelfauna von Togo. Dritter Nachtrag, mit einer Ubersicht der 



