362 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



62. Bocage on Birds from Equatorial Africa. 



[Sui* quelques oiseaux recueillis dans I'Afrique equatoriale (pays du 

 Muata-Yamvo) par M. A. Sesinando Marques. Par J. v. Barboza du 

 Bocage. Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, no. xlvi. p. 84.] 



This short paper gives an account of six species, of which 

 two [Syrnium bohndorfi, and Corethrura jmlcJira) are additions 

 to the ornithology of Angola. The specimens were collected 

 by M. A. Sesinando Marques in the territory of Muata- 

 Yamvo. 



63. Bull on the Birds of Herefordshire. 



[Notes on the Birds of Ilerefordsliiro. Contributed by members of the 

 Woolhope Club. Collected and arranged by the late Henry Graves Bull. 

 8vo. London and Hereford : 1888.] 



Some information is no doubt to be gleaned from this 

 work, although not a few sad instances of ignorance and 

 credulity are to be met with. We may cite the statements 

 that the Hedwing has bred near Ross, and that the Great 

 Black Woodpecker has several times been observed in Here- 

 fordshire. After these, we should like stronger evidence 

 than mere assertion with regard to the Sooty Tern, said to 

 have begn picked up dead near Marston in May 1885. About 

 one third of the volume is made up of quotations from Shake- 

 speare and other poets. 



64. Buller^s ' Birds of New Zealand.' 



[A History of the Birds of New Zealand. By Sir Walter Lawry 

 Biiller. Parts n.-VI,, 1887-88. Folio. London.] 



Sir Walter Buller has already made great progress with 

 his new ' History of the Birds of New Zealand,' of which it is 

 only necessary to say that the work is as well done as might 

 have been expected from the author^s unrivalled acquaintance 

 with the subject. Of the 13 parts which will complete the 

 work, six are already issued. The first part was noticed in 

 our January number (Ibis, 1888, p. 133). The next five 

 prats contain illustrations of the following species : — 





