Recentby published Ornithological Works. 371 



Gold-winged Woodpecker, Cayenne Rail, and the Canada, 

 Egyptian, and Spur-winged Geese. Mr. Smith, who finds no 

 difficulty in assuming that examples of the last two are genuine 

 wanderers all the way frona Africa, rather than unpinioned 

 birds which have escaped from semi-confinement, questions the 

 propriety of considering the Mute Swan as a British bird, 

 although it breeds in a wild state (or did so until quite 

 recently) no further off than the south of Sweden, and is fre- 

 quently seen on the wing in this country. We are also sorry 

 to see that by calling the Little Owl Noctua passerhia, instead 

 of Athene noctua, he conveys the totally erroneous impression 

 that the Least or Sparrow-Owl has been obtained in Wiltshire, 

 whereas it has never occurred in any part of our islands. 

 Perhaps the most interesting portion of the book is that con- 

 taining the description of the Wiltshire Ravens and the 

 Raven -trees, still, or until recently, frequented. 



81. Sousa on two neio Birds from Angola. 



[Descrip9ao de duas especies de Aves de Angola da explora9ao do Sr. 

 Jose d'Aiichieta. Por 3os6 Augusto de Sousa. Jorn. Sci. Math. Pliys. e 

 Nat. Lisboa, no. xlvi. p. 105.] 



The veteran explorer Anchieta has sent to the Lisbon 

 Museum the specimens upon which Sr. de Sousa now pro- 

 poses to found two new species, Chcetura ancliietae and Cisti- 

 cola dispar. 



82. Sousa on the Birds of Angola. 



[Aves de Angola. Por Jos6 Augusto de Sousa. Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. 

 e Nat. Lisboa, no. xlvi. p. lOo.] 



In this paper is given a list of 67 species of birds, of which 

 examples were obtained by Sr. Anchieta at Quissange in the 

 latter part of 1886. Two new species represented in the 

 same collection were described in the paper above noticed. 



