482 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



and how to know them " ; and^ as amusing reading, the cor- 

 respondence respecting our House-Sparrow, between a very- 

 sentimental and ill-informed lady and General Spinner, may 

 be cited. 



85. Barhoza du Bocage on a new Bird from St. Thome. 



[Sur un Oiseau nouveau de St. Thom^ de la Fam. " Fringillidse." Par 

 J. V. Barboza du Bocage. Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, no. xlvii. 

 p. 148.] 



A new genus, Phaospiza, with a new species, P. thomensis, 

 is the Passer sp. inc. of Sou^a's list [infra p. 490), and has 

 since been determined to be Poliospiza rufibrunnea, figured 

 in the ' Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.' vol. xii. pi. vi., by Mr. R. B. 

 Sharpe, 



86. Belgian Ornithological Report for 1886. 



[Compte Rendu des observations Ornithologiques faites en Belgique 

 pendant I'anntJe 1886. Bull. Mus. Roy. d'Hist. Nat. de Belgique, v. 

 pp. 99-158.] 



As before [cf. Ibis, 1887, p. 244), this Report is signed by 

 Dr. Alph. Dubois, on behalf of the Committee, and the 

 number of his collaborators shows an increase. We note that 

 a young Turdus obscurus was taken in October 1886 near 

 Brussels, and we do not take exception to the record of the 

 occurrence of Numenius tenuirostris in February 1884 under 

 1886 ; but surely it is a little late to have the old and well- 

 known Otis macqueeni of 1845 put before us. Frivolity apart, 

 there can, however, be no objection to the story by the 

 veteran IVT. Croegaert of his father's tame Little Bittern, 

 which always passed the night in the embraces of an ape, for 

 the parties concerned must long since have passed away. 



87. Biittikofer on Birds from Liberia. 



[Zoological Researches in Liberia. A List of Birds collected by the 

 Author and Mr. F. X. Stampfli during their last sojourn in Liberia, by 

 J. Biittikofer. Notes fi'om the Leyden Mus. x. p. 59, pi. 5.] 



151 species were collected in this locality, which is inter- 

 esting as the only portion of this part of West Africa of which 



