Recently published Ornithological IVorks. 623 



made in the Abyssinian province of Tigre by Dr. Muzioli 

 and presented to tbe Museum of Perugia. He refers tbera 

 to 98 species, and gives remarks on ten of them which 

 require special notice. Of these Estrilda ochrogaster (!) is 

 a new species allied to E. paludicola and E. roseicrissa. 



113. Saville-Kent's 'Naturalist in Australia.' 



[The Naturalist in Australia. Bj W. Saville-Kent, r.I,.S., F.Z.S., ."tc. 

 Illustrated by oO full-page Collotypes, 9 Coloured Plates by Keulenians 

 aud otlier Artists, aud over one hundred Illustrations in the Text. Folio. 

 London : Chapman & Hall, 1897.] 



Mr. Saville-Kent's beautifully illustrated work, which is 

 replete with information about nature in Australia, contains 

 a special chapter on its birds, accompanied by a ciiromo- 

 lithographic plate containing coloured figures (drawn by 

 Keulemans) of the beautiful Finches Foephila mirabilis and 

 P. gvuldi. There are also good illustrations of some captive 

 " More-porks ^' {Podargus) , but it is asserted that the bird 

 that cries for '^more pork •" in the Australian " bush " is not 

 really a Podargus (as has been generally believed) but an 

 Owl, Ninox boobook. 



Among other places of interest Mr. Saville-Kent visited 

 Houtmann's Abrolhos — a group of islands situated, ofl' the 

 coast of Western Australia, and celebrated for sea-birds^ guano, 

 and corals. Of the sea-birds found there Mr. Saville-Kent 

 reprints the list prepared by Mr. J. A. Campbell, the ornitlio- 

 logist of Victoria, and published in the second volume of tlic 

 Reports of the Australian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science (1890). Thirty-two species are enumerated. Those 

 who wish to get some general idea of the chief wonders of the 

 Australian fauna and flora will do well to refer to tliis work. 



114. Suchetet on Hybrids among Wild Birds. 



[Les Ilybrides a I'etat sauvage. Regne Animal. Tome Premier. 

 Classe des Oiseaux. Par Andre Suchetet. Paris: Bailliere, 1897. 1 vol. 

 Bvo. 1002 pp.] 



In this thick volume our great authority on hybridism in 

 birds has united six articles which he lias previously published 

 on the subject * and has formed them into a homogeneous 

 * See our notices, ' Ibis,' 1893, 1894, aud 1896. 



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