1922.1 Recently published Ornitliological Workit. 575 



The last list of the birds of Jamaica was that drawn up by 

 tlie late Dr. P. L. Sclater (sec ^bis/ 1910, p. 562). It 

 contained the nanies of 194 species. The present one 

 contains 219 species and subspecies, o£ which, however, 26 

 are doubtful and 3 introduced. Of the others, 81 are winter 

 visitors from the north ; 5 summer visitors onlv, breeding 

 and migrating south in autumn ; 52 are resident breeding- 

 species not confined to the island ; and 52 are residents 

 peculiar to the island. Of this last category five are believed 

 to be extinct. 



The list gives the scientific and vernacular names and a 

 short account of the status of each form ; the nomenclature 

 and classification are based on Ridgway's ' Birds of Middle 

 and North America.' It will undoubtedly prove of great 

 interest to all visitors to and residents in Jamaica. 



Bannermari on the Birds of Southern Nigeria. 



[The Birds of Southern Nigeria, including a detailed review of the 

 races of species kuowa to occur there. By David A. l^annerman, M. B.E., 

 etc., etc. With Notes on the Topography of the Country, by Robin Kemp 

 and Willoughby P. Lowe. Rev. Zool. Afr. Bruxelles, ix. 1921, pp. 2.14- 

 426.] 



Little has been written on the birds of Southern Nigeria, 

 which occupies the coast-line of the middle of the Gulf of 

 Guinea between the two former German colonies of Togoland 

 and Cameroon. Most students of African birds will have 

 noticed that the species and subspecies of birds inhabiting 

 what are known as Upper and Lower Guinea are frequently 

 different, and it is of considerable interest to find out where 

 these two faunas meet and whether the races intergrade or 

 not. This problem will be largely solved by the study of 

 the birds of Southern Nigeria. The present paper is based 

 primarily on a collection made by Mr. Willoughb}^ Lowe at 

 the Iju waterworks near the town of Lagos in 1920, while 

 the information derived from other collections made bv 

 Mr. Eobin Kemp in 1905 and Mr. P. A. Talbot, the well- 

 known woi'ker in Anthropology, has been utilized. 



The present instalment of the paper contains an account 



