252 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



with him in the desire that its issue may tend to familiarize 

 ornithological students in this country with SundevalFs very 

 important work. 



Mr. Nicholson has added some appropriate footnotes to 

 the translation, and has prefaced it with a portrait of the 

 author and a notice of his life. Two appendices contain a 

 summary of SundevalPs system and the outlines of two 

 amended arrangements of the Accipitres and Thrushes, which 

 were published subsequently to the ' Tentamen.' 



44. Ninni on the Venetian Long-tailed Titmouse. 



[Sulle recentissime opinioni intorno alle Specie Venete del Genere 

 Acredula, breve note di A. P. Ninni. 8vo. Venezia : 1889.] 



Sign. Ninni maintains, in contradiction to what is stated 

 in the ' Inchiesta Ornitologica ' (v. s. p. 114), that the pre- 

 valent form of Acredula in Venetia is A. irbii, not A. rosea 

 nor A. caudata. 



45. Noll on Extinct Birds. 



[Die Veranderungen in der Vogehvelt im Laufe der Zeit. Von F. C. 

 Noll. Bericht d. Senckenb. natnrf. Gesell. Frankfurt am M. 1889, p. 77.] 



A good popular essay on " the alterations of the Bird- 

 world during the progress of time " was read by Dr. F. C- 

 Noll at the Anniversary Meeting in 1888 of the Sencken- 

 bergian Society of Naturalists of Frankfort-on-the-Main, 

 and is now published, with additions, in their ' Bericht.' It 

 contains nothing novel. A useful list of the literature on 

 the subject is appended. 



46. Oates's ' Birds of British India.' 



[The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Pub- 

 lished under the authority of the Secretary of State for India. Edited 

 by W. T. Blanford. Birds.— Vol. I. By Eugene W. Oates. London: 

 Taylor and Francis. 1889.] 



More than twenty-five years have now elapsed since 

 Jerdon's well-known ' Handbook of Indian Birds ' was com- 

 pleted. This is a long period for the progress of modern 



