Recently published Ornithological Works. 139 



5. Blanford's 'Birds of British India.' 



[The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Published 

 under tlie authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. 

 Edited by W. T. Blanford. Birds : vol. iii. By W. T. Blanford, F.R.S. 

 8vo. Pp. i-xiv, 1-450. London : Taylor & Francis, 1895.] 



The present volume of the Fauna of British India takes 

 up the subject where it was left by Mr. Oates {cf. 'The 

 Ibis/ 1892, p. 283). We have had to wait some years for 

 it, but, like all Mr. Blaoford's work, it is well and carefully 

 prepared. It contains the Eurylsemi, Pici, Zygodactyli, 

 Anij^odactyli, Macrochires, Coccyges, Psittaci, Striges, and 

 Accipitres. A fourth volume, of which " a considerable 

 portion is written," will complete this most useful work, 

 which will, of course, for the future, form the groundwork 

 of all ornithological investigations in British India. 



We are pleased to see that Mr. Blanford (see footnote 

 p. 164) supports our refusal to use "Microhms'' for the 

 Swifts instead of " Cypselus," and is otherwise generally 

 orthodox in his nomenclature. 



6. Biittikofer on certain Paradise-birds. 



[Einige Bemerliungen iiber neu angekommene Paradiesvogel. Von J. 

 Biittikofer. Notes Leyden Mus. xvi. p. 30.] 



Mr. Biittikofer gives us remarks on some specimens of 

 Paradise-birds recently received by the Leyden Museum 

 from Goenong Tobi, in North-west New Guinea. These 

 consist of an adult male of Amblyornis hiornata, an adult 

 male of the magnificent new form Pteridophora alberti, a 

 peculiarly coloured specimen of Craspedophora magnijica, and 

 four male examples of Parotia carolce. Of the last two are 

 adult, and agree generally with Dr. Meyer's description of this 

 remarkable bird, though certain discrepancies are pointed 

 out, and the two others are young. The young plumage is 

 fully described. 



7. Dubois on the Birds of Belgium. 



[Faune des Vert^br^s do la Belgique. Par Alphouse Dubois. S6rie 

 des Oiseaux. Tome ii. (1887-94). Koyal 8vo. Bruxelles, 1894.] 



We regret the unavoidable delay in noticing the second 



