Recently published Ornithological Works. 247 



54. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea.' 



[The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including 

 any new Species that may be discovered in Australia. By [the late] 

 John Gould, F.R.S. &c. Part XXV. Folio. London : 1888.] 



With this twenty-fifth part the great work of Gould upon 

 the birds of New Guinea is brought to a conclusion. Bound 

 up it makes five fine folio volumes, with 320 plates. It seems 

 rather a pity to stop the work when, as we are told in the 

 preface, only some 300 species have been figured out of a 

 total of 1030 belonging to the Papuan Avifauna ; but we sup- 

 pose the publishers had no choice except to adhere to the 

 promise made to the subscribers to finish the book in twenty- 

 five parts. Of these only twelve were issued during Gould^s 

 lifetime, the remaining thirteen having been prepared by 

 IVIr, R. B. Sharpe, who has also written the preface and 

 introduction. Part XXV. contains figures of the following 

 species : — 



Harpyopsis novse guinese. lanthoenas albigularis. 



Baza gurneyi. Carpophaga subtlavescens. 



Lorius tibialis. van-wycki. 



Nesocentor milo. Piezorhynchus axillaris. 



Rectes arueusis. medius. 



55. Littleboy on the Birds of Hertfordshire. 



[Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire in 1887, and on the Birds 

 frequenting the Triug Reservoirs. By [the late] John E. Littleboy. 

 Trans. Hertf. N. H. Soc. & Field Club, v. p. 76.] 



This, we regret to observe, is the last report on Hertford- 

 shire birds we shall have from a very active and intelligent 

 observer. JMr. Littleboy^s paper was read in ]Vlarch last, but 

 he died on the 3rd of August following, before the proof was 

 corrected. Amongst the 21 species new to the Hertfordshire 

 list are Acrocephalus palustris, Anthus spinoletta, and Calan- 

 drella brachydactyla. But a still greater rarity is the JMarsh 

 Sandpiper {Totanus stagnatilis), an example of which is stated 

 to have been shot near the Triug Reservoirs by Mv. Walter 

 Rothschild in October 1887, and to have been taken at first for 

 an ''immature or winter-plumaged Greenshank.'^ As the 



