Recently published Ornithological Works. 563 



from the hypothetical list." Three supposed species are 

 eliminated. 



104. Check-List of North- American Birds. (Abridged 

 edition.) 



[Check-List of North-American Birds, according to the Canons of 

 Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. Abridged edition, 

 revised. 8vo. Washington : 1889.] 



The abridged edition of the 'Check-List of North- American 

 Birds ' contains only the scientific and English names and 

 the references to former editions of the American List. It 

 embraces the species enumerated in the Supplement recently 

 issued (see above) as well as those in the original Check-List 

 of 1885. As in the Supplement_, the new species are inter- 

 polated, and numbered in each case the same as the imme- 

 diately preceding species with the addition of a decimal 

 point and second number, in order to secure the permanence 

 of the numbers in the original Check-List. A list of intro- 

 duced species is added, but the list of fossil birds is omitted. 



105. Ernst on the Birds in the Museum of Caracas. 



[Catalogo de las Aves en el Museo Nacional de Caracas. Por A. Ernst, 

 Director del Museo. llevista Cieut. Univers. Central Venezuela, i. p. 25.] 



Our valued correspondent. Dr. Ernst, has lately sent to 

 the library of the Zoological Society of London a complete 

 set of the numbers of vol. i. of the ' Revista Cientifica' of 

 the Central University of Venezuela, which we had not 

 previously seen. It contains the paper of which we now give 

 the title, apparently issued in 1887. 



The list enumerates 339 species, including many extra- 

 neous birds. As the author observes, the series of Vene- 

 zuelan species is by no means complete, and it is a great 

 misfortune that no one has, as yet, attempted even a com- 

 plete catalogue of the birds of this most interesting country, 

 of which the avifauna must embrace, we should say, at least 

 600 or 700 species. 



