564 Recently published Ornitholoyical Works. 



106. Harvie-Brown and Buckley, ' Vertebrate Fauna of the 

 Outer Hebrides.' 



[A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides. By J. A. Harvie-Brown 

 and T. E. Buckley. 8vo. Edinburgh : 1888.] 



This handsome volume shows a great improvement in style 

 upon the work on Sutherland and Caithness^ which we noticed 

 last year (Ibis^ 1888, p. 272). Moreover the material is far 

 more interesting, inasmuch as comparatively few ornithologists 

 have been able to visit the numerous outlying islets to which 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown and his companions have devoted so much 

 attention; and, again, an acquaintance with these remote spots 

 is a work of difficulty and often of danger. We are now fur- 

 nished, for the first time, with a really trustAvorthy account 

 of the ornithology of the Outer Hebrides ; for, much as we are 

 indebted to the late Robert Gray for his ' Birds of the West 

 of Scotland,' it must be remembered that his personal expe- 

 rience was confined to two or three short visits made in his 

 business capacity as bank inspector and during a fortnight's 

 detention on North Uist. Mr. J. G. Millais has contributed 

 one of his striking title-pages (this time of mammals), while 

 maps and reproductions of photographs embellish a volume 

 which can be heartily recommended. 



107. Levei'kuhn on the Birds mentioned in the Koran, 



[Welche Vogel nennt der Koran ? Von Paul Leverkiihn. Zeitschr. fiir 

 die ges. Ornith. Budapest, iv. p. 413.] 



Herr Leverkiihn writes of the few passages in the Koran 

 that relate to birds, of which only five or six common species 

 appear to have attracted Mahomet's attention. There are, 

 however, some queer stories in relation to some of these 

 birds introduced into the paper. 



108. Leverkiihn on new South- American Birds. 



[Siidamerikanische Nova aus deni Kieler Museum. Von Paul Lever- 

 kuhn. Journ. f. Oruith. 1889, p. 101.] 



The Museum of the Zoological Institute of the University 



