276 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



34. Dubois's Report on the Ornithological Observations 

 made in Belgium in 1887-8-9. 



[Compte rendu des Observations ornithologiques faites eu Belgique 

 pendant les ann^es 1887 a 1889, publie sous la direction du Dr. Alplionse 

 Dubois. Ornis, 1890, p. 287.] 



The reports on the Ornithology of Belgium originally 

 commenced in 1842, under the superintendence of M. Ad. 

 Quetelet, were discontinued after his death in 1874. They 

 were recommenced in 1885 hy Dr. Dubois, at the request of 

 the International Ornithological Committee, and the reports 

 for 1885 and 1886 were published in the ' Bulletin ' of the 

 Royal Museum of Natural History of Brussels. They are 

 now appropriately transferred to the pages of ' Ornis.^ After 

 a short description of the topography of the additional 

 stations, observations on 194 species are given in systematic 

 order. 



35. Godman and Salvin' s ' Biologia Centrali- Americana.' 



[Biologia Centrali- Americana ; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of 

 the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Edited by F. Du 

 Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin. (Zoology.) Parts LXVII.-XC. 4to. 

 London: 1888-90. Published for the Editors by R. H. Porter, 10 Chandos 

 Street, Cavendish Square, W.] 



It is now nearly three years since we recorded the progress 

 of the ' Biologia Centrali - Americana,' one of the most 

 important zoological works of the period *. During these 

 three years 24 parts of the Biologia have been issued, and 

 have carried on the section relating to the Birds nearly to 

 the end of the Oligomyodse. The families treated of in the 

 letterpress are the Oxyrharaphidse (with 1 Central-American 

 species), the Tyrannidse (with 105 species), and the Pipridse 

 (with 13 species), as also the subfamily Tityrinse of the 

 Cotingidse. The arrangement adopted in the fourteenth 

 volume of the Catalogue of Birds is generally followed, but 

 many improvements are made, as might have been expected 

 from the authors' intimate acquaintance with their subject. 

 Their information as regards the Central- American species 



* See Ibis, 1888, p. 270. 



