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11. Agropsar, fam, Sturnidse : type Gr acuta sturnina, 

 Pallas. 



We may remark that Sittiparus has been already used by 

 Selys-Longchamps for a genus of Paridse. See Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, ix. p. 58 (1884). 



47. Oates's ' Matabele-land.' (Second edition.) 



[Matabele-land and the Victoria Falls, a Naturalist's Wanderings in 

 the Interior of South Africa, from the Letters and Journals of the late 

 Frank Oates, F.R.G.S. Edited by C.G.Oates. Second edition. London: 

 French & Co., 1889.] 



We noticed in 1882 the first edition of this interesting 

 account of the journeyings of the late Frank Oates, who 

 died of fever in Matabele-land in 1875 (see Ibis, 1882, p. 109) . 

 The unsold copies of the first edition having been destroyed 

 by fire at the publishers, Mr. C. G. Oates has prepared a 

 second, to which certain ameliorations and additions have 

 been made. In his essay on the birds collected by Frank 

 Oates, Mr. Sharpe, as we are informed in the preface, has 

 " reconstructed the classification of the species on what he 

 conceives to be a sounder basis, has brought the nomencla- 

 ture up to date, and has made some necessary revisions." 



48. Pleske' s ' Ornithographia Rossica.' 



[Ornithographia Rossica. Die Vogelfauna des Russischen Reichs von 

 Th. Pleske. Band II. Lief. 2. Laubsanger (Phylloscopus). 4to. St. 

 Petersbourg: 1889.] 



The second part of this important work, of which we have 

 already spoken (see Ibis, 1889, p. 566), is now before us. 

 It contains an account of the Phylloscopi of the Russian 

 Empire, which are numerous, and form a highly charac- 

 teristic group of the Palsearctic avifauna. Mr. Pleske recog- 

 nizes 17 species, and divides them into three subgenera — 

 Acanthopneuste, Phylloscopus, and Reguloides. 



The single plate contains figures of the following species :— 

 Phylloscopus (Acanthopneuste) borealis, var. want ho dry as ; 

 P. (Acanthopneuste) nitidus ; P. (Acanthopneuste) viridanus ; 



