Recently published Ornithological Works. 259 



this supplement, the present part, now before us, contains an 

 account of the recent contributions made to our knowledge 

 of the Rapaces, Parrots, and Picarians of the Papuan Sub- 

 region. The additional species are 35 in number, amongst 

 which four receive new names, namely, Urospizias polionotus, 

 from Timor-laut, Cacomantis arfakianus, from New Guinea, 

 Lamprococcyx poliurus, from Taraway I., and Tanysiptera 

 meyeri, from New Guinea. 



54. Salvadori on Pallas's Sand-Grouse in Italy. 



[Le ultime notizie intorno al Sirratte in Italia negli anni 1888 o 1889, 

 raccolte da Tommaso Salvadori. Boll. Mus. Anat. Comp. Torino, vol. iv. 

 no. 70.] 



This is a second supplement to Count Salvador's account 

 of the occurrences of Pallas's Sand-Grouse in Italy in 1888 

 and 1889, ■ We have already noticed the original paper (see 

 Ibis, 1889, p. 130) and the first supplement (op. cit. p. 391). 

 Some of the few survivors of the invasion were met with in 

 the first three months of 1889, since when nothing more has 

 been heard of them. Count Salvadori appends to this paper 

 a very convenient tabular statement of all the Italian occur- 

 rences. 



55. Saunders's 'Manual of British Birds/ 



[An Illustrated Manual of British Birds. By Howard Saunders. 

 Parts XVI.-XX. 8vo. London: 1889.] 



Our former colleague's ' Manual of British Birds ' is now 

 complete, and the author has retired to the continent for a 

 short period to enjoy abetter climate and well-earned repose. 

 The compact volume thus quickly elaborated has met with 

 universal and well-merited approval. The first number was 

 issued on April 1st, 1888, and the twentieth and last on Nov. 

 1st, 1889. The birds considered by the author, in this last au- 

 thority on the subject, to be entitled to be called "British-" are 

 367 in number, exclusive of several doubtful forms on which 

 opinions differ. The species ascertained to have bred within 

 the United Kingdom during the present century are, as we 



