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his assistants during his hunting and scientific Expedition 

 to Central Africa in ] 897-8. The results are now being 

 gradually worked out by different savants, and the birds 

 have been naturally assigned to Dr. Reichenow, who has 

 kindly furnished us with a copy of his report on tliis subject. 

 To make his memoir more complete, Dr. Reichenow has 

 included in it notices of other recent work in tlie same 

 district of Africa, which he calls the '■' Mid-African Lake- 

 district," and of which he gives us a useful outline-map. 



Tiie Mid-African Lake-district, he tells us, is specially 

 rich in bird-life. At present we know of 750 species from 

 this country — that is, about one-fourth of all the known 

 species of the Ethiopian Region, which is estimated to 

 contain about 3000 species. Tliis richness in species comes 

 from the central position of the Province. West Africa 

 supplies the greater portion of them, as out of 750 species 

 about 130 may be classed as West-African forms. Typical 

 East-African forms are about 100 in number, and 70 extend 

 over East and South Africa, while about 100 of them are 

 generally spread over the whole Ethiopian Region. The 

 European-Asiatic migrants that are known to occur in the 

 Lake-district are about 50 in number. 



The author proceeds to record the species of the Lake- 

 district according to the nomenclature and arrangemeut of 

 his ' Vogel-Afrikas/ and adds many good notes. Coloured 

 figures are given of Scoptelus adolphi-frederici, Malaconotus 

 aduljihi-frederici, Cinnyris schubotzi, Pyronielana leuconota, 

 and Bradypterus milbreadi. 



104. Snelhlage on the Av'tfuuna of the Amazonian Campos. 



[Sobre a distribu9ao da Avifauna campestre na Amazonia. Por 

 E. Snetlilage. Bull. Mus. Goeldi, vi. p. 226 (1910).] 



This is an interesting essay to those who are studying 

 geographical distribution. The author, who is one of the 

 officials of the Museum Goeldi at Para, and is very well 

 acquainted with the birds of Lower Amazonia, shews, or 

 attempts to shew, that the birds of the cuinpos of that 

 district (that is, of the treeless spaces, surrounded by forest, 



