191 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Animals, and the principal facts known about them are 

 correctly, but rather insufficiently, stated. 



The chief authority on the subject is, of course, the late 

 Canou Tristram's excellent ' Fauna and Flora of Palestine/ 

 published in 1884, and the same author's 'Natural History 

 of the Bible' (1864). 



9. Gumiiny and Roberts on new Birds in the Transvaal 

 Museum. 



[New Records and Descriptions of New Species of Birds in the Trans- 

 vaal Museum Collection. By Dr. J. W. B. Gunning and Austin Roberts. 

 Annals Transvaal Mus. iii. No. 2, p. 109.] 



The following species and subspecies are described in this 

 paper: — Vinago orientalis (Beira) ; Pternistes castanelventer 

 (E. Africa, Fort Beaufort) ; Falco horsbrughi (Transvaal) ; 

 three new subspecies of Piezorhina capenis, proposed to be 

 called P. c. intermedia, P. c. yrisea, and P. c. piisilla; 

 Glancidium capen.^e rufum (E. Africa) ; Dendromus albifacies 

 (E. Africa) ; Irrisor erylhrorhynchus brevirostris (E. Afr.) ; 

 Alseonax carulescens pondoensis (Fondoland) ; Certhilauda 

 daviesi (F-ast Griqualand) ; Phyllasti'ephus capensis inter- 

 medius (S.E. Africa) ; Zosterops vaalensis (Potchefstroom) ; 

 Apalis rhodesi(E (Matabeleland) ; A. spelonkensis (N. Trans- 

 vaal) ; A. venustus (^oudoliind) ; A. darglensis (Natal); A. 

 flaviventris (Pretoria) ; Camaropdera brachyura bororensis 

 (E. Afr.) ; C griseo-viridis noornei (Transvaal) ; Monticola 

 Pretoria and Cisticola piisilla (E. Afr.). 



Amonfi^ the " New Records " we find the name of Sylvia 

 nisoria, of which a specimen was obtained near Venters- 

 kroon, Transvaal, in November 1909, and another near 

 Eulawayo, Rhodesia, in January 1911. The identity of 

 the former specimen has been confirmed by Dr. Reichenow. 



10. Hartert on the Birds of the South-west Islands. 



[(1) On tlie Birds of Sermatta, one of the South-west Islands. By 

 E. Hartert, Ph. Dr. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 161. 



(2) Additions to tlie Birds of Babber. By E. Hartert, Ph. Dr. Ibid. 

 p. 169. 



(3j Additions to the Avifauna of Luang-. By E. Hartert, Ph. Dr. 

 Ibicf. p. 179.] 



