Recent/i/ published Ornitkological Works. 419 



Dr. Sharpens nomenclature, we are fully persuaded that the 

 'Handbook^ has many merits, and have no doubt that it 

 will acquire a large circulation. It is illustrated by 35 

 plates. 



93. Shmye's ' Monoyraph of the Paradiseidse.' 



[Monograph of the Puradiseidce, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilunu- 

 rhynchidce, or Bower-Birds. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. 

 Party. Folio. London: II. Sotherau & Co., 1895.] 



The fifth part of Dr. Sharpc's beautiful monograjjh, issued 

 last year, which appears to have escaped our notice, contains 

 figures of the following species : — 



Drepanoniis albertisi. Parotia sexpennis, 



Semioptera wallacii. Sericulus melinus. 



Trichoparadisea gulielmi. -(Eluroedus maculosiis. 



Dipbyllodes hunsteini. geislerorum. 



Lophorhiua minor. Lycocorax morotensis. 



Trichoparadisea gulielmi is certainly a splendid bird, and 

 we are glad to see a good picture of it. But we cannot agree 

 with Dr. Sharpe in thinking that Dr. Meyer was right in 

 making it the type of a new genus. In our eyes it is a very 

 good Paradisea, to all intents and purposes. 



94. Shelley's ' Birds of Africa: 



[The Birds of Africa, compris^ing all the Species which occur in the 

 Ethiopian Region. By G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S., F.K.G.S., &c. Vol. I. 

 R. II. Porter, 1896.] 



A most useful book, we are quite sure, will Capt. Shelley's 

 volume on the birds of Africa be found by all ornithologists 

 who have to deal with the Ornis ^thiopica. It contains a 

 complete list of the birds of Africa south of the Atlas and 

 the First Cataract of the Nile, including those of ^Madagascar 

 and its islands — that is, of the birds known to the author ; and 

 he knows them well, having devoted his studies mainly to the 

 Oi-nis of Africa for the last 30 years. Besides the authority 

 for each namc_, references arc given to the first description 



