2C6 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



25. Scluter (fV. L.) on the Land-Vertebrates of South 

 Africa. 



[Science in South Africa : a Handbook and RevieAV prepared under 

 the Auspices of the South African Governments and the South African 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. Edited by the Rev. 

 W. Flint, D.D., and J. D. F. Gilchrist, D.Sc. Cape Town:' T. Maskew 

 Miller, 1905. 1 vol. 8vo, 505 pp.] 



Tn this volume, which contains a series of articles on 

 various scientific subjects relating to South Africa, prepared 

 for the information of the British Association, will be found 

 in the "Zoological Section" a short memoir on the Mammals, 

 Birds, and Reptiles of that country, written by Mr. W. L. 

 Sclater, the Director of the South African Museum. The 

 portion relating to the Birds, which occupies about eight pages, 

 gives a sketch of the different groups met with in South 

 Africa and mentions the more remarkable species in each of 

 them. It is here stated that about 820 South-African birds 

 are now known, of which 380 belong to the Order Passeres. 



26. Sclater^s Check- List of South- African Birds. 



[Check- List of the Birds of South Africa, containing Additions since 

 the issue of the successive volumes of Birds in the "Fauna of South 

 Africa " Series. By W. L. Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S., Director of the South 

 African Museum. Price 2s. i$d.~\ 



The main portion of this paper is occupied by a list of the 

 species recognised in Stark and Sclater's ' Birds of South 

 Africa/ which will be shortly completed by the issue of the 

 fourth volume. The total number of species described in 

 that work is 814. Additions and alterations, which have 

 occurred during the progress of the work, raise the number 

 in the present list to 868. Of each of these the scientific 

 and English names are given, together with an indication of 

 the distribution, shown by symbolical letters. There can be 

 no doubt of the utility of this List to working Ornithologists. 



Following the List wc find a series of notes explanatory 

 of the additions and corrections to be made in the names of 

 the birds described in the ' Fauna of South Africa.' We 

 learn here that the British Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), which 



