506 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



decided to ask Mr. Cliubb to prepare a complete descriptive 

 catalogue of the birds of British Guiaua^ based chieflj^ on 

 the McCoimell collections, but also making use of the 

 material in the British Museum and elsewhere. 



The present volume is the result. It contains the account 

 of the non-passerine portion of the Guiana Avifauna, and 

 there can be no doubt that field-naturalists as well as 

 students will find it a most valuable work. It is arranged 

 somewhat on the lines of Blauford's Birds in the " Fauna 

 of India ^^ series, and the account of each species contains 

 a short summary of all that is known about it. There are a 

 number of figures in the text illustrating structural generic 

 characters^ and also keys to help the student to identify any 

 of the birds. 



Three new subspecies are described in the present volume 

 for the first time; the types are in the McConnell collection. 

 These are Ortygops notata duncani, Creciscus melanophceus 

 macconnelli, and Ciccaba superciliaris maccontielli. 



As has been already stated Mr. McConnell made two 

 expeditions to Roraima, the mysterious flat-topped moun- 

 tain on the borders of British Guiana and Brazil, A 

 journal of the first journey in 1894 occupies the first 

 thirty-four pages of the present work and is illustrated 

 with a number of photographs of scenery and Indians. The 

 journal of the second journey in 1898 has unfortunately 

 disappeared, and the little we know about it is from a few 

 lines of introduction to the account of the collections made, 

 published in the ''Tiansactions of the Linnean Society '^ 

 (Zoology (2) viii. p. 51, 1900). The journal of the first 

 expedition, however, is full of interest and gives us a vivid 

 picture of the difficulties and dangers of travel in the forests 

 and on the rivers of British Guiana. 



We shall look forward with great interest to the 

 completion of this work and would offer our congratu- 

 lations to Mrs. McConnell and to Mr. Chubb on the 

 endm-ing monument they have raised to the memory of 

 Mr. McConnell. 



