453 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



mounted specimens which form the " Goss Collection." This 

 in the prospectus of the work is described as follows : — 



" The Goss Ornithological Collection is solely the work of 

 this author. Each specimen has been obtained and preserved 

 by his own effort^ and the entire collection — which is one of 

 the largest in the country, the result of one man's exertions 

 — has been presented to the State of Kansas^ and is on 

 exhibition in a room in the State House set apart by law 

 for that purpose ; and his entire time and fortune are devoted 

 to its perfection ; long and expensive trips are annually made 

 to increase the collection. Within a few years he has 

 generously prepared, for the State^ without cost, two separate 

 catalogues of Kansas Birds." 



75. Hart on the Birds of Sinai. 



[Some Account of the Fauna and Flora of Sinai, Petra, and Wady 

 Arabah. By Henry Chicliester Hart. London. Published for the 

 Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1891. 1 vol. 4to.] 



Mr. Hart accompanied Prof. Hull in his geological 

 expedition to Sinai and the Dead Sea in 1883. His main 

 object was to study the Botany of the district, but other 

 branches of Natural History were not neglected. 



Mr. Hart commences with a narrative of his journey, 

 interspersed with remarks on the Fauna and Flora. He 

 then gives systematic lists of the species of various groups, 

 accompanied by field-notes. The chapter on birds relates 

 to species observed in Sinai, Arabia Petrsea, and South 

 Palestine from November to February. They were 94 in 

 number. Amongst them are mentioned such interesting 

 species as Cercomela melanura, Sylvia nana, Argya squanii- 

 ceps, Pycnonotus xanthupygus, Cinnyris osece, Passer moabiti- 

 cus, Amydrus tristrami, and Bhyncheea capensis, \ih.e. last new 

 to the Fauna of Sinai. 



76. Hartert on three new Birds. 



[Vorlaufiges iiber einige neiie Vogelarten. Von Ernst Hartert. .T. f. 

 O. 1890, p. 154.] 



These are preliminary descriptions of supposed new species 



