360 Recently published Ornif/wloffical tVorks. [This, 



which is arranged in the order of Oates and Bhinford's 

 Fauna, to tlie end of the Hoopoes. A short description, 

 with a note on the liabits and distril)ntion in Siam together 

 with the Siamese name in the Enghsli and veruacuhir script, 

 is given in tlie case of each species. Mr. A¥illiamson also 

 contribntes several shorter notes, one of wliich contains ap 

 account of the rare Ibis, Thaumutibis giyantea, only four 

 examples of wliich are known. The last one of these was 

 obtained by Mr. K. G. Gairdner at Ban Tup Takoh in Siara 

 in March 1913 and is now mounted and exhibited in the 

 British Museum (Natural History). A photograph of this 

 mounted example accompanies the note. 



In another short paper Mr. C. B. Kloss describes two new 

 forms of the large red-shouldered Indian Parakeet, viz. Palcs- 

 ornis cupatria avensis from Cachar and Burma, and P. e. 

 siainetinis from eastern and central Siam. 



Revnc Franraise d'Onrit/iolof/ie. 



[liuvue Franciiise d'Ornitliologie, Scieutilique t'l I'ralique. 10^' Aiiiiee, 

 Nos. 105-llt). Jau.-Dec. 1918.J 



It is a matter for considerable congratulation to M. Mene- 

 gaux that he has been able to keep his monthly journal of 

 ornithology going through the late period of stress and 

 strain, and we trust that now it may continue to flourish 

 and increase. The articJes contained in last year's volume 

 are numerous and interesting, dealing with all phases of our 

 science, and we can only mention a few of them in this short 

 uotice. 



M. Menegaux himself has a paper on a small collection of 

 birds from the Senegal and Niger rivers, among which are 

 three species, new for the French Sudan, and several scarce 

 ones ; among them is Cerchaeis ulopex and Thamnolcea suh- 

 i'ufipennis. Another paper by the same author, with field- 

 notes by the collector M. van Saceghem, deals with some 

 birds from the estuarine portion of the Congo basin, and 

 this collection is destined for the Congo Museum at 

 Tervueren ; while a third, also by the Editor, gives a list of 

 a collection from the Misiones Province of Argentina made 



