Recently published Ornithological Works. 487 



95. 'Ornis/ 



[Ornis : Internationale Zeitschrift fiir die gesammte Ornitliologie. 

 Ilerausgegeben von Dr. R. Blasius und Dr. G. v. Hayek. III. Jahrgang 

 (1887), Heft 4 ; IV. Jahrgaug (1888), Heft 1.] 



In the former of these Hefte Dr. Radde gives his third 

 Report (for 1885) on the birds of the Caucasus, with a map; 

 Herr Schneider of Basel treats of the species, 263 in number, 

 found in Upper Alsace^ Upper Baden, and the Swiss cantons 

 of Basel, Aargau, Solothurn, and Bern ; Herr Ziemer notes 

 the increase of Carpodacus erythrinus in Pomerania and its 

 general tendency to spread westward ; Herr B. Grondal has 

 a long paper on the Icelandic names for birds ; and there are 

 several shorter articles and obituary notices. The latter 

 Heft is almost entirely devoted to a portion (treating of 112 

 species) of the Report on the birds of the Austro- Hungarian 

 Empire by V. v. Tchusi and K. v. Dalla-Torre, but Dr. Philippi 

 gives a short paper on 80 species observed in Western Atacama 

 and in the province of Tarapaca. 



96. Pelzeln and Lorenz on Types in the Vienna Museum. 



[Typen der ornithologisclien Sammlung des k. k. naturliistorisclien 

 Hofmuseums. Von August von Pelzeln und Dr. Liidwig von Loi'enz, 

 Theil IV. (Scliluss). Ann. d. k. k. naturbistorisch. Hofmuseums, Wien, 

 1888, p. 37.] 



This article gives a list of the typical specimens of the Scan- 

 sores and subsequent orders of birds in the Vienna Museum, 

 and concludes this useful series (c/. supra, p. 367). 



97. Salvadori on the Birds of Shoa. 



[Catalogo di una Collezione di Uccelli dello Scioa, fatta dal Dott, 

 Vincenzo Ragazzi negli auni 1884, 85, 86. Per Tommaso Salvadori. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vol. vi. p. 185.] 



Count T. Salvadori works out in his usual thorough way 

 the collection of birds made in Shoa by Dr. Vincenzo Ragazzi, 

 who, after the death of Antinori, was appointed Director of 

 the Italian Station Let-Marefia. The collection, made in two 

 years, consists of 823 specimens, which are referred to 276 

 species. Of these 219 had already been obtained in Shoa by 



