300 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



in the British Museum along with the rest of the ' Hume 

 Collection/ Mr. Hume's MS. work on them having been 

 accidentally destroy ed^ Mr. Bowdler Sharpe has now re- 

 written a, and has incorporated in the volume the results 

 obtained by other English naturalists in Eastern Turkestan 

 — so that we may now k)ok forward to a complete account of 

 the ornithology of that country. 



We understand that the articles on Birds written by Prof. 

 Newton for the new edition of the '^Encyclopaedia Britan- 

 nica ' will shortly be issued in a separate form, along with 

 additional matter prepared by the Author and Dr. Gadow, 

 the whole forming a ' Dictionary of Birds.'' 



The printing of the 19th volume of the British Museum 

 Catalogue of Birds is nearly completed, and the volume will 

 shortly be issued. It contains the Rhamphastidfe, Galbu- 

 lidje, and Buccouidse, by the Editor of this Journal, and the 

 Indicatoridse, Capitonidcc, Cuculidse, and Musophagidae, by 

 Captain Shelley. The 16th volume, containing the Upupidse, 

 Trochilidee, Caprimulgidae, and Cypselidae, by Mr. Salvin, is 

 passing through the press. The MS. of the 20th volume, 

 containing the Psittacidse, by Count Salvadori, is nearly 

 finished. 



We have received from Messrs. Sotheran the prospectus 

 of Mr. Sharpe's new Monograph of the Paradise- and Bower- 

 birds (c/. Ibis, 1890, p. 389), the first part of which will 

 shortly be issued. It will be published in six parts, uniform 

 Avith Gould's works, and form one volume imp. fol. when 

 completed. 



Death of Prof . Poey, of Havana. — Dr. Frederico Poey writes 

 to us from Havana to announce the death of his father. Prof. 

 Felipe Poey, in that city on the 20th of January last. Poey 

 is well known to naturalists as the chief author of the ' Re- 

 pertorio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba,' of the ' Memorias 

 sobre la Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba,' and of other 

 works on the zoology of that island. 



