280 Recently published Ornithological IVorks. 



elapsed since its foundation, the building has more than 

 trebled in size^ and rapid progress has been made in the 

 arrangement of the extensive coUeetions. As regard the 

 portion of them more especially interresting to the readers 

 of this Journal, we are told : — 



" The department of oology has been increased by the 

 addition of the valuable collection of eggs left to the museum 

 by the late Dr. Thomas M. Brewer, of Boston, numbering 

 about three thousand five hundred lots, and not far from 

 one thousand species. 



" Besides the identification and intercalation of the addi- 

 tions, a systematic catalogue of the birds' skins has been 

 begun during the last year; and already upward of one 

 thousand species have been critically revised or determined, 

 covering the Psittaci, the Trochilidse, and the Oscines from 

 the Turdidse to the Icteridse. This catalogue^ when com- 

 pleted, will show at a glance not only what species are in the 

 collection, but the number of specimens of each and the loca- 

 lities represented. 



" Of the considerable number of families thus far revised, 

 about twenty to seventy-five per cent, of the known species 

 are represented, the average being not far from one third.^' 



34. Bocage on the Birds of Zamhesia. 



[Aves da Zambezia e do Transvaal, colligidas pelo major Serpa Pinto, 

 por J. V. Barboza du Bocage. Jor. Sc. Math. Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, 

 No. xxvii. p. 133.] 



Prof. Bocage gives a list of forty species represented in 

 the collection made by Major Serpa Pinto in his recent 

 journey across the southern portion of the African continent, 

 and adds remarks. Of these thirty-eight were obtained in 

 the Luchuma — a large territory drained by the Upper Zam- 

 besi. None are new ; and almost all are species already re- 

 corded from Mossamedes and Benguela. 



35. Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. 



[Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Vol. v. No. 4. October, 

 1880.] 



This part concludes vol. v., and contains title, index, &c. 



