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50. Reichenow's ' Birds of Africa.' 



[Die Vogel Afrikas, von Anton Reichenow. Dritte Band, zweite 

 Heft. Neudarn : J. Neumann, 1905. Price £3 10*. net.] 



The issue of the second part of the third volume of 

 Reichenow's f Vogel Afrikas ' completes one of the most 

 important ornithological works of the present epoch. The 

 whole work, now brought to a successful conclusion, consists 

 of three handsome volumes in large octavo, of from 600 to 

 800 pages each. The thirty coloured plates and the maps, 

 when bound separately, make a fourth volume. 



In the second half of the third volume the author concludes 

 the Pycnonotidae, and gives us his account of the Zosteropidae, 

 Nectariniidse, Certhiiclse, Paridse, and Sylviidae, which are the 

 final Family. 



Thus the three volumes together contain an account of 

 2381 species belonging to the continental Ethiopian Avi- 

 fauna, Madagascar (quite wisely, as we think) being altogether 

 excluded. The Supplement, which concludes the work, treats 

 of the discoveries made during the last five years while 

 the work has been in progress. It commences with a short 

 history of the principal collections received during that 

 period, and gives a list of the titles of the books and papers 

 in which they have been described. These are upwards of 200 

 in number, and follow upon the list of more than 1000 autho- 

 rities on African birds already given in the first volume. 



In concluding our notice of the final part of this exhaustive 

 work we veuture to offer the author our best congratu- 

 lations on the great success that has attended his labours. 

 Dr. Reichenow's ' Vogel Afrikas ' will long remain the 

 principal authority on the subject to which it refers, and 

 constitutes a firm base on which all future investigators of 

 the large and varied Ethiopian Avifauna will necessarily 

 build their additions. 



51. Report of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. 



[Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian 

 Ethnology and Natural History. Vol. ii. No. 3. Director's Report for 

 1904. Honolulu, 1905. 62 pp.] 



Observers in a partially-explored country have much in 



