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  published 
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  Works. 
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  104. 
  Reichenoiv 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  collected 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Stuhlmmm 
  

   in 
  East 
  Africa. 
  

  

  [Die 
  von 
  Herrn 
  Dr. 
  Fr. 
  Stublinann 
  in 
  Ostafrika 
  gesammelten 
  Yogel. 
  

   Von 
  Dr. 
  Anton 
  Reichenow. 
  Jalirb. 
  d. 
  Hamburgischen 
  Anstalten, 
  x. 
  

   1893.] 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  an 
  article 
  on 
  the 
  bird-collections 
  made 
  by 
  Dr. 
  

   Stuhlmann 
  in 
  1888 
  and 
  1889 
  in 
  Zanzibar, 
  on 
  the 
  opposite 
  

   coast-lands 
  of 
  German 
  East 
  Africa 
  and 
  at 
  Quilimane. 
  

   Dr. 
  Reichenow 
  has 
  already 
  given 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  them 
  in 
  the 
  

   ' 
  Journal 
  f. 
  Ornithologie 
  '' 
  for 
  1889, 
  but 
  returns 
  to 
  the 
  subject 
  

   in 
  order 
  to 
  add 
  the 
  collector's 
  field-notes. 
  The 
  collection 
  

   contained 
  about 
  800 
  skins, 
  referable 
  to 
  170 
  species, 
  some 
  of 
  

   which 
  are 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  avifauna 
  of 
  East 
  Africa. 
  Batis 
  puella, 
  

   sp. 
  nov., 
  is 
  described 
  as 
  the 
  East-African 
  representative 
  of 
  

   B. 
  molitor 
  of 
  S. 
  Africa. 
  It 
  is 
  proposed 
  to 
  unite 
  some 
  

   eight 
  or 
  nine 
  described 
  species 
  under 
  Dryoscopus 
  major, 
  

   Hartl. 
  

  

  105. 
  Salvadori's 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Pigeons. 
  

  

  [Catalogue 
  of 
  tbe 
  Birds 
  in 
  tbe 
  British 
  Museum. 
  Volume 
  XXI. 
  Cata- 
  

   logue 
  of 
  tbe 
  Columba?, 
  or 
  Pigeons, 
  in 
  tbe 
  Collection 
  of 
  tbe 
  British 
  

   Museum. 
  By 
  T. 
  Salvadori. 
  676 
  pp., 
  15 
  coloured 
  plates, 
  1893.] 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  ' 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Pigeons 
  ' 
  it 
  is 
  sufficient 
  to 
  say, 
  in 
  

   the 
  words 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Giinther^s 
  preface, 
  that 
  the 
  volume 
  is 
  a 
  

   " 
  worthy 
  companion 
  " 
  to 
  that 
  on 
  the 
  Parrots 
  which 
  pre- 
  

   ceded 
  it. 
  The 
  " 
  conscientious 
  attention 
  " 
  to 
  details 
  of 
  every 
  

   description 
  renders 
  Count 
  Salvadori's 
  work 
  most 
  acceptable 
  

   to 
  those 
  who 
  have 
  to 
  put 
  up 
  with 
  the 
  slipshod 
  style 
  of 
  some 
  

   writers 
  of 
  modern 
  days. 
  

  

  After 
  the 
  elimination 
  of 
  duplicates, 
  the 
  national 
  collection 
  

   of 
  Pigeons 
  numbers 
  7359 
  specimens. 
  These 
  are 
  referred 
  to 
  

   415 
  species. 
  But 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  of 
  Pigeons 
  

   recognized 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  catalogue 
  is 
  458, 
  " 
  besides 
  27 
  

   of 
  a 
  more 
  doubtful 
  character.'" 
  

  

  As 
  regards 
  the 
  classification 
  of 
  the 
  Columbae, 
  Count 
  

   Salvadori 
  confesses 
  to 
  have 
  experienced 
  much 
  difficulty. 
  

   The 
  Pigeons, 
  absolutely 
  different 
  from 
  all 
  other 
  birds, 
  

  

  