480 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the Upper Nile (5° N. lat.). Dr. Emin Bey qxteuded his 

 researches to the banks of the Albert Nyanza, collecting at 

 various stations_, which are indicated on a map, and obtained 

 about 500 examples, belonging to 154 species. The more 

 remarkable of them Dr. Hartlaub has already described in 

 the Journal fiir Ornithologie and the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society. He now adds Hyphantornis crocata 

 (allied to H. aurantla) . ]\Iauy short notes by the collector 

 add to the value of this excellent memoir on a district 

 hitherto absolutely unknown to ornithologists. 



68. Hume and Marshall's 'Game-Birds of India.' 



[The Game-Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon. By Hume and 

 Marshall. Vols. II. & III. Royal 8vo. 1880.] ^ 



We are always glad to see a piece of work rendered com- 

 plete, especially one of the useful character of the present 

 book, of which we welcome the second and third volumes 

 Avith pleasure. The second contains the Partridges and 

 Quails, the Hemipodes, and the Crakes and E-ails of British 

 India, and is carried out upon the same plan as the former 

 volume (see Ibis, 1880, p. 242). We still think the plates 

 might have been done much better : some of them are pass- 

 able ; but others hardly come up to that mark. We cannot 

 agree with Mr. Hume that that of Perdix hodgsonioe is " fairly 

 good," or that of the female of Porzana parva " tolerable.'^ 

 HypotcBnidia obscuriora is an apparently new (?) name given 

 to the Andamauese form of H. striata — we trust only a mis- 

 print for " obscurior -/^ but it is repeated p. 255. 



The third volume (dated 1880 on the back of the cover, but 

 not at all on the title-page) was received in this country in 

 the last week of April 1881. It contains the Cranes (Gruidse), 

 the Waterfowl (Anatidse), and the Snipes and Godwits, the 

 rest of the Limicolse being, we suppose, too insignificant to 

 come within the scope of the work. As we have already 

 stated, Mr. Hume himself criticises the plates of the Indian 

 game-birds so fairly, and sometimes so severely, that we may 

 be excused from interfering on this somewhat tender subject. 

 It may, however, be truly said, we think, that, on the whole, 



