148 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



21 . Lawrence's ' Valley of Kashmir.' 



[The Valley of Kashmir. By Walter K. Lawrence, I.C.S., CLE. 

 London, 1895.] 



He who would know anything about Kashmir cannot 

 do better than turn to this beautifully printed and well 

 illustrated monograph, which contains an excellent summary 

 of our knowledge of this distant portion of the British 

 Empire, by one who is specially qualified to treat of it. 

 The chapter on the Fauna of Kashmir contains a list of the 

 Birds with field-notes, arranged according to Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe's classification, with the nomenclature of Mr. Oates^ 

 so far as that goes : 208 species are included. 



22. Meyer on. the Egg of a new Bower-bird. 



[Ueber das Ei einer unbekannten Chlmnydodera von Deutsch Neu 

 Guinea. Von A. B. Meyer. Abh. u. Ber. konigl. zool. u. anthro. Mus. 

 Dresden, 1894-95, No. 10.] 



The author describes and figures the beautiful egg of a 

 Bower-bird of the genus Chlamydodera which was found by 

 a collector, A. Grabauer, on a palm-leaf near Constantinhafen 

 in Kaiser- Wilhelm's Land, New Guinea. He proposes 

 C. recondita as a name for the bird that laid the egg, but it 

 seems to us that it will be rather difficult for future oologists 

 to identify the layer of it ! 



23. Ornis, 1895. Parts 1-3. 



[Ornis : Internationale Zeitschiift fiir die gesammte Ornithologie. 

 Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. R. Blasius. viii. Jahrgang (1805), Hefte 

 1-3.] 



We welcome the reappearance of our contemporary after 

 its cessation at the end of 1891. The resumed periodical 

 opens with a list, by P'reiherr Besserer, of the birds of the 

 neighbourhood of Dieuze, in Lothringen, or, as more fami- 

 liarly known to us, Lorraine. Dr. Kudolf Blasius follows 

 with the reports for 1891-1893 of the birds observed at the 

 German light-houses and light-ships ; and the same author 

 gives a list of the species recorded at the light-houses of 



