Recently published Ornithological Works. S^T" 



PanuridcE, Lanndx, Mascicapidtp, Hirundinida, Picidce, 

 lynr/idce, Ci/pselidcp, and Caprimulgidce. Miss Turner's notes 

 on the Bearded and otlier Tits, and those of Mr. Pycraft 

 ou the Woodpeckers, are of considerable value, though we 

 cannot quite agree as to the small numbers of the Bearded 

 Tits on the Broads in 1888, when a steady increase had 

 already begmi after partial extirpation. Again, the Red- 

 backed Shrike has increased, not decreased, in many places 

 of late years, and we can hardly consider that the Green 

 Woodpecker shews a preference for sandy soils or for old 

 decaying oaks. At least, such is not our experience. But 

 most of the information given is accurate and interesting. 



41. Koenig on the Result of his Visit to the Sudan. 



[Die Ergebnisse meiner Keise nach dem Sudan im Friihjahr 1910. 

 Von Alexander Koenit;. Mit 6 Tafeln. Ber. Intern. Oruith.-Kongress 

 Berlin, 1910. (Pp. 469-545).] 



This paper was read at the International Ornithological 

 Congi'ess at Berlin in 1910, but has only recently appeared 

 in print. It contains a full narrative of the author's journey 

 to the Sudan, with remarks on the birds obtained and ob- 

 served on the route, and on the journey from Khartoum 

 up the Nile to Redjaf and back (15th Feb. to April 9th, 

 1910), and two '^^ appendices.'^ The first appendix contains 

 a systematic list of the birds (250 species) obtained and 

 observed on the journey up the White Nile from Khartoum 

 to Redjaf in 1910, w'ith remarks on their exact localities, 

 geographical distribution, and other particulars. The second 

 appendix contains a similar list of the 126 species which 

 were represented in the collection made by the author on 

 a previous expedition in 1903 between Wadi Haifa and 

 Khartoum. Altogether this is a very important contribution 

 to our knowledge of the Avifauna of the Egyptian Sudan. 

 Six well-drawn and nicely coloured plates illustrate the 

 memoir. They represent Centropus heuglini, Dendromus 

 nubicus, Batis minor nyansce, Campephaga xanthornoideSy 

 Melocichla mentalis amauroura, and Amblyospiza melanota. 

 Prof. Koenig got two fine male examples of the Shoe-bill 



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