134 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



6. Carazzi on the Birds of Spezia. 



[Materiali per una Avifauna del Golfo di Spezia e della Val di Mao-ra ; 

 del Dott. Davide Carazzi. 8vo. Spezia : 1887.] 



The species observed along the Gulf of Spezia and in the 

 Val di Magra are 312 in number; some of them of con- 

 siderable rarity ; and it is interesting to find Euspiza mela- 

 nocephala recorded from the western side of Italy. This 

 little treatise forms a useful addition to the larger works on 

 Italian ornithology recently published by Count Salvadori 

 and by Professor Giglioli. 



7. Hartert on the Birds of Prussia. 



[Vorlilufiger Versuch einer Ornis Preussens. Von Ernst Hartert. 

 Mittheil. Orn. Vereines Wien, 1887 : Separatabdruck.] 



The want of a good list containing full and recent infor- 

 mation respecting the birds of North-eastern Germany was 

 much felt, and is now supplied. The species noticed are 274 

 in number, and many interesting details are given as regards 

 rarities, and also about the southward extension of the 

 breeding-range of such northern birds as Turdus pilaris and 

 Carpodacus erythrinus. 



8. ' Indian Annals and Magazine of Natural Science.' 



[The Indian Annals and Magazine of Natural Science (an illustrated 

 Monthly), conducted by James A. Murray. Vol. I. Nos. 1-3. 8vo. 

 Bombay and London : 1887.] 



As regards ornithology, the greater part of the contri- 

 butions to these three numbers consists of two long chapters 

 by the Editor in a narrative form on the " Zoology of Beloo- 

 chistan and Southern Afghanistan,^^ followed by a list of 

 twenty-eight species of birds, to be continued. There are 

 also several short communications of merely local interest. 



9. Lucas on the Osteology of Nothura. 



[Notes on the Osteology of the Spotted Tinam 

 ! Frederick A. Lucas. Pr. U.S. N. M. 1887, p. 



In Nothura the " chain of supraorbital ossicles " so rc- 



[Notes on the Osteology of the Spotted Tinamou {Notlmrn macxUosa). 

 By Frederick A. Lucas. Pr. U.S. N. M. 1887, p. 157.] 



