591 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



localities for each of them. Coloured figures are added of 

 Garrulus lidthi, Picus oiostoni, and Nannocnus ijimai. 



88. Oustalet on Birds from Lake Tchad. 



[Catalogue des Oiseaux rapportes par la Mission Chavi-Lac Tchad. Par 

 M. Oustalet. Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. x. pp. 131 et 53G (1904), et xi. p. 10 

 (1905).] 



This is a list of the birds collected by the French expe- 

 dition to Lake Tchad and the Shari River under the leader- 

 ship of M. Chevalier. One hundred and seven species are 

 enumerated, mostly well-known West-African forms, but 

 Cinnyris decorsei is described as new. 



89. Petenyi's ' Ornithological Fragments.' 



[Ornithologische Fraginente aus den Handschriften von Johann 

 Salamon von Petenyi. Deutsch bearbeitet von Titus Csorgey. Mit 

 einer Einleitung von Otto Herman. Gera-Untermhaus, 1905. Pp. i- 

 xxxvi, 1-400.] 



Herr Csorgey gives us here a German translation of the 

 ornithological notes of Herr Petenyi, once Curator of the 

 Hungarian National Museum, who appears to have intended 

 to write a full account of the birds of his country. There 

 were considerable gaps in the manuscript, where possibly 

 notes had been lost, but the portions left are quite sufficient 

 to shew the value of the author's work. Born in 1799, he 

 seems to have been well acquainted with the writings of the 

 German ornithologists of his time, and to have been an ardent 

 student of classification, as well as of all other matters relating 

 to Hungarian Birds. 



90. Pratt's ' Two Years in New Guinea.'' 



[Two Years among New Guinea Cannibals — a Naturalist's Sojourn 

 among the Aborigines of unexplored New Guinea. By A. E. Pratt. 

 London : Seeley & Co., 1906. 1 vol., 8vo. Price 16s. net.] 



Although we are aware that some of Mr. Pratt's stories 

 have been severely criticized, we think that most Naturalists 

 will read the narrative of his adventures among the aborigines 

 of British New Guinea with interest j but it is a pity that lie 



