Recently published Ornithological Works. 631 



specimens are two adult males, taken near Bari in April last. 

 Count Salvadori adds to his paper a scheme of the eight 

 recognizable forms of Italian Wagtails. 



110. Schalow on the Avifauna of the Cisatlantean Subregion. 



[Ueber unsere Kenntniss des Atlas-Gebietes. Vortrag, gehalten in der 

 Jahresversammlung der AUgemeinen Deutschen Ornitliologisclien Gesell- 

 schaft am 11. Mai 1890. Von Herman Schalow. J. f. O. 1891, p. 47.] 



In an address given to the General German Ornithological 

 Society at its Anniversary Meeting in 1890, Herr Schalow 

 calls attention to our still very imperfect knowledge of the 

 birds of Algeria, Tunis, and Barbary, together with those of 

 the Atlas Range. While we quite admit that further explora- 

 tion in this quarter would be very desirable, and that a 

 general account of the present state of our knowledge of its 

 Ornis should be at once undertaken by some competent orni- 

 thologist, we think that Herr Schalow has perhaps overstated 

 his case a little. We have certainly a good general know- 

 ledge of the whole avifauna of the Cisatlantean Subregion, 

 and cannot expect that many (if any) more discoveries of new 

 species remain to be made. But much remains to be done 

 in working out the exact areas of the different species and 

 the dates of transit of the migrants. There is also the Mo- 

 roccan portion of the Atlas range to be visited, whenever that 

 is possible. 



Mr. Boulenger has lately read before the Zoological So- 

 ciety an excellent memoir on the Reptiles and Batrachians 

 of this fauna ^. A corresponding memoir on the Birds would 

 be of great value to ornithologists. 



111. Sharpe on the Classification of Birds. 



[A Review of recent Attempts to Classify Birds : an Address delivered 

 before the Second International Ornithological Congress on the 18th of 

 May, 1891, by R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. Budapest : 1891.] 



In our short notice of the Meeting of the Second Inter- 



* "Catalogue of the Reptiles and Batrachians of Barbary (^Morocco, 

 Algeria, Tunisia), based chiefly upon the Notes and Collections made in 

 1880-84 by M. Fernand Lataste." By G. A, Boulenger. Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. xiii. p. 93. 



