472 Hecently published Ornithological Worlis, 



in other respects resembling the Diuapore male in the Norwich 

 Museum, was obtained at Huilla, in Angola^ and is fully 

 described by Prof. Barboza du Bocage in his ' Ornithologie 

 d^Angola/ vol. i. p. 51. A similar male, as I am informed by 

 Mr. Sharpe, Avas obtained in Damara Land by the late Mr, An- 

 dersson, and is preserved in the Museum of Leyden. 



The late Mr. Swinhoe, in his original description of T. 

 pekinensis (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 442), remarked : — The adult has 

 the inner or short primaries broadly bordered at their tips 

 with whitish, rufous in the immature, and wanting in the 

 European ; both adult and immature have the white on the 

 under quills 3^ inches short of their tips ; in the European 

 bird it advances 1 inch nearer the tips.''^ Whether T. peki- 

 netisis usually exhibits these peculiarities I am unable to say ; 

 but I cannot detect them in the only specimen to which, at 

 the present moment, I have access — the male from Dinapore, 

 above referred to. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXVIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 286.] 



51. Blanford on a new Trochalopteron. 



[On a Species of Trochalopteron from Travancoro. By W. T. Blan- 

 ford, F.R.S. J. A. S. B. xlix. p. 142.] 



Mr. Blanford separates a Trochalopteron, obtained on 

 the Travaucore hills by Mr. F. W. Bourdillon, from the T, 

 fairbanki, of the Palni hills, and names it T. meridionale. 



52. Bocage on West- African Birds. 



[Aves das possessoes portuguezas d' Africa occidental. Decinia nona e 

 vigesima listas. Por J. \. Barboza du Bocage. Jorn, Sci. Lisboa, no. 

 xxviii. e xxix. 1880]. 



Prof. Barboza's nineteenth list gives 93 species, from Sr. 

 Anchieta^s last collection at Caconda, made in the last four 

 months of 1879 and in Jaunarv 1880. Seven are new to the 



