720 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



117. Hellmayr on Birds from Parti. 



[Notes on a Second Collection of Birds from the District of Para, 

 Brazil. By C. E. Hellmayr. Nov. Zool. xiii. pp. 353-385.] 



This is another important contribution to our knowledge 

 of the Ornithology of South America from the same in- 

 dustrious pen. It gives an account of a collection of 420 

 specimens sent to the Tring Museum by Mr. W. Hoffmans 

 from Prata, a locality situated east of the city of Para. The 

 species represented in it are 120 in number, of which two — 

 Microcerculus marginatus occidentalis and Tachyphonus suri- 

 namus insignis — are now described for the first time, while 

 two others have been previously characterized elsewhere. 



Amongst the species now added to the list of the birds of 

 the district of Para is Avocettula recurvirostris, previously 

 believed to be confined to Guiana. There are also in the 

 collection good scries of the newly-described Conopophaga 

 roberti and Hypocnemis vidua, hitherto known only from 

 single specimens, besides examples of two " exceedingly 

 rare" Humming-birds, Agyrtria nitidifrons and Lophornis 

 gouldi. 



118. Holland on Birds from East Africa. 



[A List of the Birds collected near Mombasa, East Africa, by William 

 Doherty. By VV. J. Holland, LL.B. Ann. Carneg. Mus. iii. p. 452 

 (1905). J 



This list contains the names of 105 species of birds 

 obtained by the late William Doherty in September and 

 October, 1900, near Mombasa, British East Africa. The 

 doubtful specimens have been determined by Dr. Reichenow, 

 and his arrangement is followed. 



119. Johnston's l Liberia.' 



[Liberia. By Sir Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.O.B., D.Sc. With 

 an Appendix on the Elora of Liberia, by Dr. Otto Stapf. Two vols. 

 8vo. London : Hutchinson and Co., 1906. Price 42s. net.] 



Sir Harry Johnston, having monographed two of our East- 

 African Protectorates, has now turned his attention to the 

 West Coast of Africa, and in two bulky and profusely 



