﻿Recently 
  piiblislied 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  141 
  

  

  33. 
  Meyer 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  Sumba. 
  

  

  [The 
  Birds 
  of 
  Sumba 
  By 
  A. 
  B. 
  Meyer. 
  Notes 
  Leyd. 
  Mus. 
  xiv. 
  

   p. 
  265.] 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Meyer 
  points 
  out 
  that 
  in 
  his 
  artiele 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  

   Sumba 
  (see 
  above^ 
  p. 
  129) 
  Mr. 
  Biittikofer 
  has 
  overlooked 
  a 
  

   list 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  of 
  that 
  island 
  published 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Meyer 
  in 
  

   1881 
  (Verb. 
  k. 
  k. 
  zool.-bot. 
  Gesellsch. 
  Wienj, 
  based 
  upon 
  

   materials 
  received 
  from 
  Dr. 
  Riedel^ 
  in 
  whieh 
  40 
  species 
  are 
  

   enumerated. 
  Adding 
  those 
  registered 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Biittikofer, 
  

   Dr. 
  Meyer 
  shows 
  that 
  64 
  species 
  are 
  now 
  known 
  from 
  

   Sumba, 
  of 
  which 
  3 
  are 
  peculiar. 
  He 
  further 
  vindicates 
  the 
  

   claim 
  of 
  the 
  Geoffroyus 
  of 
  Sumba, 
  previously 
  referred 
  to 
  

   G. 
  jukesi, 
  to 
  be 
  distinguished 
  as 
  G. 
  tjindance, 
  and 
  makes 
  

   corrections 
  concerning 
  other 
  species 
  named 
  in 
  the 
  list. 
  

  

  34. 
  Meyer 
  and 
  Helm's 
  Sixth 
  Rejwrt 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  

  

  Saxony. 
  

  

  [VI. 
  Jahresbericlit 
  (1890) 
  der 
  ornithologisclien 
  Beobachtuno-stationen 
  

   im 
  KonigTeiche 
  Sachsen, 
  bearbeitet 
  von 
  A, 
  B. 
  Meyer 
  und 
  F. 
  Helm. 
  4to. 
  

   Berlin 
  : 
  Friedlander, 
  1892.*] 
  

  

  The 
  report 
  from 
  the 
  Saxon 
  observing-stations 
  for 
  1890 
  is 
  

   drawn 
  up 
  from 
  the 
  contributions 
  of 
  37 
  reporters 
  at 
  36 
  

   stations, 
  and 
  relates 
  to 
  1M9 
  species. 
  To 
  it 
  is 
  appended 
  a 
  

   complete 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  hitherto 
  recorded 
  as 
  met 
  with 
  in 
  tlie 
  

   Kingdom 
  of 
  Saxony, 
  altogether 
  274 
  species. 
  The 
  total 
  

   number 
  of 
  German 
  birds 
  according 
  to 
  Homeyer^'s 
  list 
  

   is 
  357. 
  

  

  35. 
  Nicolls 
  and 
  Eglington' 
  s 
  ' 
  Sportsman 
  in 
  South 
  Africa/ 
  

  

  [The 
  Sportsman 
  in 
  South 
  Africa 
  : 
  the 
  haunts, 
  habits, 
  description, 
  and 
  

   the 
  pursuit 
  of 
  all 
  game, 
  both 
  fur 
  and 
  feather, 
  found 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  Zambezi 
  

   (including 
  the 
  Cape 
  Colony, 
  Transvaal, 
  Bechuanaland, 
  Natal 
  and 
  Damara- 
  

   land) 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  day, 
  with 
  brief 
  notices 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  known 
  fresh- 
  and 
  

   salt-water 
  fish. 
  By 
  James 
  A. 
  Nicolls, 
  F.R.G.S., 
  F.Z.S., 
  and 
  William 
  

   Eglington. 
  1 
  vol. 
  8vo. 
  London 
  : 
  1892.] 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  useful 
  book 
  to 
  the 
  many 
  travellers 
  

   in 
  South 
  Africa 
  who 
  wish 
  to 
  know 
  something 
  about 
  the 
  

  

  * 
  For 
  notice 
  of 
  previous 
  report 
  see 
  Ibis, 
  1891, 
  p. 
  458. 
  

  

  