484 Recently published Ornitholofjical Workb. 



80. Pelzeln on the Progress of Ornithology in 1879. 



[Bericht iiber Leistungen in der Natiirgeschichte der Vogel wahrend 

 des Jahres 1879. Von August von Pelzeln. Wiegm. Arch. xlvi. p. 1.] 



Herr v, Pelzeln's Record of Ornithological Literature is^ 

 as regards references, perhaps more fully stocked than either 

 of its competitors. But some of the titles given are those of 

 papers, to say the best of them, of little, it" any, scientific 

 worth. It is, perhaps, not quite satisfactory to mix them up 

 with the titles of important books and memoirs, 



81. Pelzeln on Birds of Prey from Syria. 



[TJeber eine Seiie von Raubvogelu aus Sjrieu. Von A. von Pelzeln. 

 Mittheil. d. ornith. Vereines, Wieii, 1880, p. D.] 



Herr von Pelzeln gives an account of a collection of Birds 

 of Prey made in Syria by Dr. Steindachner in the spring of 

 1879, and given to the Imperial Museum of Vienna. There 

 were 11 species represented, and amongst them Ketirpa cey- 

 lonensis, from Nahr el Kebir. Canon Tristram had already 

 recorded the intrusion of this eastern bird into Palestine 

 (Ibis, 1868, pp. 24.2, 261) . 



82. Peters on two new East-African Birds, 



fUeber zwei neue mit Turdus libonyanus und Cinnyris olivaceus, Smith, 

 verwandte Arten aus Inhambane. Von W. Peters. .T. f. Orn. Jan. 



1881.] 



Br. Peters separates from Turdus libonyanus of Smith (of 

 which authentic examples have lately been received m Dr. 

 Holub's collection) the bird from Inhambane which has 

 hitherto been referred to that species, and calls it T. tropin 

 calis. Dr. Peters also distinguishes a smaller form of NeC" 

 tarinia olivacea, from the same district, as N. olivacina. 



83. Philippi on new Chilian Animals. 



- [Ueber einige neue chUenische Thiere. Von Dr. R. A. Philippi. 

 Wiegm. Arch. f. Nat. Jahrg. xlv. i. p. 158 (1879). 



In this memoir the veteran naturalist Dr. K. A. Philippi, 

 of Santiago, describes and figures as a rtew species, under the 



