118 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



pelzelni, is suggested for a Swan formerly living in the 

 Menagerie at Schonbrunn, in case C. unwini of Hume shall 

 prove to be only the young of C. gibbus (i. e. C. olor !). 



47. Vordermaii' s Birds of Batavia. 



[Bataviasche Vogels door A. G. Vorderman. Parts I., II. Overgedrukt 

 uit het Natuurk. Tijds. Nederl. Indie, Deel xli. Afl. 4, et Deel xlii. Afl. 2.] 



Heer Vorderman, in order to contribute to our knowledge 

 of the distribution of bird-life in Java, which, as he truly 

 says, has been very imperfectly worked out, proposes to give 

 an account, with descriptions, of those birds which he has ob- 

 tained in the neighbourhood of Batavia. In the two parts 

 of this work already issued, about 80 species are contained. 

 These are not arranged in systematic order -, but probably an 

 index will be added at the conclusion. 



It would have been better, we venture to say, if a few 

 synonyms, at least those referring specially to Javan localities, 

 had been added under the heading of each species. 



48. White's ' Cameos from the Silver-Land.' 



[Cameos from the Silver-Land, or Experiences of a young Naturalist in 

 the Argentine Republic. By Ernest William White, F.Z.S. Vol. II. 

 London : Van Voorst, 1882.] 



Mr. White's second volume is devoted to an account of his 

 excursions into different parts of the Argentine Republic. 

 First he goes up the Uruguay to Concordia, then to Rioja, 

 Catamarca, and Tucuman. We are next entertained with his 

 adventures under canvas for 1200 miles into the extreme 

 north of the Republic. Lastly, we go up the Uruguay to the 

 territory of the Missiones, and back by the Parana. Many 

 notices of bird-life are interspersed in the narrative, which 

 should be studied in connexion with Mr. White's paper on 

 the birds collected and observed during his various excursions, 

 read at the Meeting of the Zoological Society of London on 

 the 30th of June last*. 



* Sfe r. Z. S. 1882, p. 5jn. 



