368 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



of the Eastern forms. We find little to add to the in- 

 formation given, except that the Fire-crested Wren breeds 

 as early as April in Southern France, and that the nest of 

 the Chiffchaff is much more commonly found in bushes and 

 low copse-wood in England than the author supposes. The 

 plates are good examples of the three-colour process, though 

 the redder tint of the Fire-crested Wren's eggs, as opposed 

 to those of the Golden-crested, is not sufficiently pronounced. 



36. Dubois on the Birds of the Congo State. 



[Remarques sur l'ornithologie de FEtat Independant du Congo, suivies 

 d'une liste des especes recueillis jusqu'ici dans cet Etat. Par le Dr. Alph. 

 Dubois. Ann. du Mus6e du Congo, tome i. fasc. 1. Bruxelles : Spineux 

 et Cie., 1905. Large 4to. 36 pp. ; 12 pis.] 



The Museum of the Congo Free State, housed at Tervueren, 

 near Brussels, for the present, contains the collections in 

 various branches of Natural History formed by the officials 

 of that State in various parts of its extensive area. In this 

 memoir M. Alphonse Dubois, Conservator of the Royal 

 Museum of Natural History of Belgium, gives us an account 

 of some of the new or lately described species of birds of the 

 Congo, accompanied by coloured illustrations, and also 

 by a complete list of the birds of Congo-land of which 

 specimens have reached the Museums of Tervueren and 

 Brussels. 



The species described for the first time are Barbatula 

 rubrigularis (from Katanga), Ispidina leopoldi (Lake 

 Leopold), Pseudospermestes (gen. nov.) goossensi, and Fratico- 

 linus nahani (Popoie). 



The species figured are Barbatula rubrigularis, P achy coccyx 

 validus, Turacus schutti, T. emini, T. sharpei, Bycanistes 

 leucvpygius, Lophoceros granti, Ispidina leopoldi, Terpsiphone 

 ignea, T. speciosa, T. melanura, Pseudochelidon eurystomina, 

 Melanopteryx iveynsi, Francolinus nahani, Huhua leucosticta, 

 and Strix cabne. The list of Congo species contains 

 483 names, for each of which the locality is given. The 

 rare and curious form Pseudochelidon is from the district of 

 Ituri, which is far away from Gaboon, the patria assigned to 



