Recently published Ornithological Works. 485 



Traversi. These gentlemen went first to Assab, on the 

 western coast of the Red Sea, and afterwards to Massowa. 

 Failing to get into Abyssinia in this direction, Dr. Traversi, 

 leaving his companion (who was laid up by fever) to return 

 to Italy, went back to Assab, and thence penetrated into 

 Shoa, where he was well received by King Menilek, and 

 remained nearly three years, practising medicine and making 

 collections of natural history. The birds are referred by Dr. 

 Giglioli to 120 species, the greater part of which have been 

 already registered as inhabitants of Shoa by Count Salvadori 

 in his excellent account of the birds of this district (Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2, vol. i. 1884). But 22 species 

 are additions to the list, and 5 of them apj)ear to be new to 

 the Shoan avifauna. Two species are supposed to be possibly 

 new, and called, in such case, Poliospiza isahellina and Brady- 

 ornis traversi ; but Count Salvadori (/. i. c.) has since de- 

 clared that the former of these =P. tristriata, and the 

 latter = Lioptilus chocolatinus. 



91. Irhy's Key List of British Birds. 



[British Birds: Key Liat. Bv Lieut.-Col. L. Howard Irby. S\o. 

 London: 1888.] 



This work, written by an excellent practical ornithologist, 

 is likely to prove of great service, owing to the large amount 

 of information compressed into a small compass. If a little 

 more care had been bestowed in its revision, it would have been 

 nearly perfect of its kind ; as it is, there are several slips and 

 inconsistencies which obviously result from haste, and not 

 from want of knowledge ; but these can easily be corrected 

 in another edition. 



92. Roller on the Birds of Holland. 



[Naamlist van in Nederland in den vrijen natuurstaat waargeuomen 

 Vogels. Door H. Roller. Bijdr. t. d. Dierkunde. Feest-numm. Am- 

 sterdam : 1888.] 



The part of the *Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde^ of the Royal 

 Zoological Society of Amsterdam recently issued, in com- 



