﻿586 
  Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  

  

  101. 
  Oustalet 
  on 
  Birds 
  from 
  the 
  Congo. 
  

  

  [Notice 
  preliminaire 
  sur 
  les 
  Collections 
  zoologiques 
  recueilUes 
  par 
  

   M. 
  Jean 
  Dybowski 
  dans 
  son 
  expedition 
  a 
  travers 
  le 
  Congo 
  et 
  la 
  region 
  de 
  

   rOubangui. 
  2^ 
  partie. 
  Oiseaux. 
  Par 
  E. 
  Oustalet, 
  ' 
  Le 
  Naturaliste,' 
  

   Ann, 
  15, 
  p. 
  59 
  (1898),] 
  

  

  M. 
  Oustalet 
  gives 
  a 
  preliminary 
  account 
  of 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  

   birds, 
  containing 
  600 
  specimens 
  referable 
  to 
  from 
  150 
  to 
  160 
  

   species_, 
  made 
  by 
  M. 
  Jean 
  Dybowski 
  during 
  his 
  recent 
  expe- 
  

   dition 
  in 
  Congo-land. 
  M. 
  Oustalet 
  speaks 
  particularly 
  of 
  

   the 
  Accipitres, 
  Striges, 
  and 
  Picarise 
  in 
  the 
  series, 
  and 
  men- 
  

   tions 
  that 
  it 
  contains 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  lynx 
  pector 
  alls, 
  as 
  well 
  

   as 
  examples 
  of 
  lynx 
  torquilla. 
  Specimens 
  of 
  seven 
  species 
  of 
  

   Bucerotidse 
  were 
  collected. 
  

  

  102. 
  Pavesi 
  on 
  a 
  Hybrid 
  Duck. 
  

  

  [Un 
  Ibrido 
  Naturale 
  di 
  A7ias 
  boscas 
  e 
  Chaulelasmus 
  streperus 
  ucciso 
  nel 
  

   Pavese. 
  Pel 
  S. 
  C, 
  Prof, 
  P. 
  Pavesi. 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Veneto-Trentina 
  d. 
  Sci. 
  

   nat, 
  Y. 
  no. 
  3, 
  1893.] 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Pavesi 
  describes 
  a 
  female 
  duck 
  obtained 
  at 
  Mezzanine, 
  

   on 
  the 
  Po, 
  and 
  considers 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  hybrid 
  between 
  Anas 
  boschas 
  

   and 
  Chaulelasmus 
  streperus. 
  

  

  103. 
  Pigott's 
  London 
  Birds 
  and 
  other 
  Sketches. 
  

  

  [London 
  Birds 
  and 
  London 
  Insects, 
  and 
  other 
  sketches. 
  By 
  T, 
  Digby 
  

   Pigott, 
  C.B, 
  Loudon 
  : 
  Porter, 
  1892, 
  1 
  vol, 
  8vo.] 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  volume 
  Mr. 
  Pigott 
  has 
  reprinted 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  essays, 
  

   mainly 
  on 
  his 
  favourite 
  subject 
  of 
  our 
  native 
  birds, 
  recently 
  

   contributed 
  to 
  various 
  Reviews. 
  Besides 
  the 
  feathered 
  

   inhabitants 
  of 
  London, 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Outer 
  Farnes,^^ 
  the 
  

   Shetlands, 
  the 
  Broads 
  of 
  Norfolk, 
  St. 
  Kilda, 
  and 
  the 
  Dutch 
  

   Water-meadows 
  are 
  portrayed 
  in 
  lively 
  and 
  w^ell- 
  written 
  

   paragraphs, 
  which 
  his 
  brother 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  B.O.U. 
  and 
  

   other 
  ornithologists 
  will 
  read 
  Avith 
  pleasure. 
  A 
  nominal 
  list 
  

   of 
  the 
  birds 
  noticed 
  at 
  diflferent 
  times 
  in 
  London, 
  mainly 
  

   based 
  upon 
  that 
  published 
  in 
  1879 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Edward 
  Hamilton 
  

   (Zoologist, 
  1879, 
  p. 
  273), 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  an 
  Appendix. 
  

  

  