566 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



110. Marshall on the Woodpeckers, 



[Die Spechte (Pici). Von William Marshall. Zoologische Vortr. 

 Heft 2. Leipzig: 1889.] 



Prof. Marshall has devoted his second ornithological essay 

 to the Woodpeckers (Pici), also a very strongly marked group, 

 and one of which there can be no doubt as to the limits. 

 After a general account of the structure and habits of these 

 birds, a scheme of their classification and distribution is ap- 

 pended. The author divides the Pici into four families — 

 Jyngidse, Picumnidse, Hemicercidae, and Picidae — and gives a 

 list of the species and their patricB. 



111. Mujsisovics on the Zoo-geography of Southern Hungary. 



[Zoogeographische Notizen iiber Siid-Ungarn aus den Jahren 1886-88. 

 Zugleich ein iii. Naclitrag zur " Fauna von Bdllye und Darda." Von 

 Prof. Md. univ. Dr. A. v. Mojsisovics. Mittheil. Naturwissenschaftl. 

 Ver. fiir Steiermark, Graz, 1888.] 



To Professor IVIojsisovics's summary of his researches into 

 the peculiarities of the fauna of Southern Hungary — a sub- 

 ject on which he has published fifteen contributions since 

 1881 — is here added a list of the birds of the Drave district 

 observed during this period. The list contains the names of 

 213 species. 



112. Pleske's ' Ornithographia Rossica.' 



[Ornithographia Rossica. Die Vogelfauna des Russisclien Reiclis von 

 Th. Pleske. Lief. 1. Grasmiicken {Sylvia). 4to. St. P6ter3bourg : 



1889.] 



A complete account of the birds of the Russian Empire, 

 if under present circumstances such a work can be satis- 

 factorily accomplished, will be very important for ornithology, 

 and we welcome its commencement under the auspices of 

 the Imperial Academy of Sciences with great pleasure. IVI. 

 Pleske, who has succeeded M.. Bogdanow in the charge of 

 the birds of the Imperial Collection, has undertaken the 

 task, and his scheme, as given in the introduction, seems to 

 be very good, but we should have thought that it would require 



