488 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Antinori and are mentioned in Salvadori^s Catalogue of his 

 birds^ and 57 bad not been obtained by Antinori. From 

 these and other sources the total number of known species 

 of the Shoan Avifauna is calculated to be 385. Ten of Dr. 

 Ragazzi^s species are described as new, namely, Cypselus 

 shelleyi and C.myoptilus, Cinmjris {E/eocerthia) ragazzii,Chulco- 

 mitra scioana, Cisticola cinereoln, Fringillaria poUopleura, 

 Serinus flavigula and S. reicJienowi, Estrelda nigrimentum, and 

 Urobrachya traversii. 



98. Saunders's 'Manual of British Birds.' 



[An Illustrated Manual of British IJirds. By Howard Saunders. 

 Parts I.-VII. London : 1888.] 



The publication of this work was commenced last April, 

 and, when completed in about twenty monthly Parts, the 

 Manual will form a volume of nearly 800 pages, on the plan 

 of allotting two pages — inclusive of the illustration — to each 

 species. Most of the woodcuts are identical with those in 

 the 4th Edition of Yarrell's ' British Birds,^ but the follow- 

 ing species, not included in that work, have been specially 

 drawn and engraved by Mr. G. E. Lodge : — Saxicola isabel- 

 lina, S. stapazina, S. deserti, Sylvia nisoria, Tichodroma inu- 

 raria, and AcanthylHs caudacuta. It has not been considered 

 necessary to occupy valuable space with woodcuts of Acro- 

 cephalus palustris, Anthus cervinus, Caprimulgus riificollis and 

 C. cegyptius, as the characteristics of those species could not 

 be shown in black-and-white; but new cuts will be given of 

 some of the Accipitres which were inadequately represented 

 in ' Yarrell.^ The systematic arrangement is mainly that of 

 the 'B. O. U. List/ and the Parts already published com- 

 prise the Passeres and Picariae. As regards the letterpress, 

 the last edition of Yarrell has, so far, been taken as a model, 

 but the author has endeavoured to avail himself of our in- 

 creased knowledge of geographical distribution. 



99. Sclater on the Oligomyodian Passeres. 



[Catalogue of the Passerif oruies, or Perching Birds, in the Collection of 

 the British Museum. Oligomyodfe, or the Famihes Tyrannidae, Oxyrham- 



