Recently published Ornithological Works. 599 



on Turdus aurantiiis Gm., of Jamaica, which Sclaterand Salvia 

 ( Nomencl. p. 2) have placed in Mimocichla. A new Chloro- 

 spingus from the Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica, is named 

 C. zeledoni, and a new Phcenicothraupis from the same 

 country P. alfaroana. Mimocichla rubripes eremita is a new 

 subspecies from Swan Island, Caribbean Sea, and Catharus 

 frantzii omiltemensis a new subspecies from South-western 

 Mexico. 



96. Riley on Three new Venezuelan Birds. 



[Descriptions of Three new Birds from the Merida Region of Venezuela. 

 By J. H. Riley. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xviii. p. 219.] 



The three new birds from the Merida district of Vene- 

 zuela are designated Leptasthenura montivagans, Haplospiza 

 montosa, and Pheucticus uropygialis meridensis. The last 

 (allied to P. uropygialis) is based on a single specimen (!). 



97. Shelley's ' Birds of Africa.' 



[The Birds of Africa, comprising all the Species which occur in the 

 Ethiopian Region. By G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., &c. Vol. V. 

 pt. 1. London : R. H. Porter, 1906. Price 81s. Gd.] 



In the second part of his fourth volume (see ' Ibis,' 1905, 

 p. 611) Capt. Shelley finished his account of the African 

 Weaver-birds. In the present part of the fifth volume 

 he gives us the history of the species of the three families 

 Oriolidae, Sturnida3, and Corvidce found within the limits of 

 the Ethiopian Region. 



Of the African Orioles only nine, species are allowed as 

 valid. Oriolus meneliki of Blundell and Lovat is united to 

 O. monachus, O. rolleti of Salvadori to 0. larvatus, and 

 O. Icetior of Sharpe to 0. brachyrhynchus. The Starlings of 

 Africa are much more numerous ; Captain Shelley registers 

 fifty-seven species, most of which belong to the beautiful group 

 commonly called " Glossy Starlings." The number of genera 

 into which these birds have been divided is rather reduced 

 under Capt. Shelley's treatment, and we cannot but think 

 that this is judicious. The thirteen chestnut-winged forms, 

 which have been hitherto separated into no less than six 



