564 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



dori finds examples of five new species, whicli he describes as 

 Melanocharis striativentris , Ptilotis plumbea, Sericornis nigro- 

 7'ufa, Loria lories, and Synoecus plumbeus. Loria is a new 

 genus of Paradise-birds of somewhat uncertain position^ being 

 based on a female specimen. 



95. Salvadori on Birds from Somali-land. 



[Uccelli del Somali raccolti da D. Eugenio dei Principi Ruspoli descritti 

 da Tomniaso Salvadori. Mem. R. Ace. Sci, Torino, ser. 2, xliv. p. 547.] 



During his first journey in Somali- land, in 1891, Prince 

 Eugenio Ruspoli (who has recently lost his life in a second 

 adventure in the same country) made a collection of 183 

 birds, which are referred by Count Salvadori to 77 species. 

 Of these Trachyphonus uropygialis, Lagonosticta somaliensis, 

 Dienemellia ruspolii, and Lamprotornis viridipedus are cha- 

 racterized as new. Count Ruspoli's exact route has been 

 described in the ' Bollettino ' of the Italian Geographical 

 Society for 1891 and 1893. A concise account of our 

 previous authorities on the Soraalian avifauna is given in 

 the introduction to this memoir. 



96. Seebohm on the Distribution of British Birds. 



[Address to the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Skipton, 1893. By 

 Ilenr}' Seebohm, President. 8vo. Loudon, 189o.] 



Mr. Seebohm took the Geographical Distribution of British 

 Birds as the subject of his Presidential Address to the mem- 

 bers of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at their meeting at 

 Skipton last year. In its printed form this has become an 

 interesting and readable essay. Mr. Seebohm divides the 

 400 " British Birds '' which he acknowledges into about " 100 

 accidental visitors, 50 irregular visitors_, and 250 either resi- 

 dents or regular annual visitors. '^ He then proceeds to 

 discuss these three categories separately, and to subdivide 

 them into smaller groups, showing us in each case whence 

 the various species are derived and what is known of their 

 ranges. It is remarkable, he observes, that of 38 species 

 which have occurred two or three times in our islands, 

 " Arctic America should have produced the largest con- 



