152 Recently published Onittholo(jicul Works. 



South Africa and Finland 11 each, Canada and Belgium 

 7 each^ the Philippine Islands 4, Norway, Japan, the ]Malay 

 Peninsula, British East Africa, Cuba, and the Argentine 

 3 each, Portugal and Poland 2 each, Luxembourg, Tloumania, 

 Egypt, New Zealand, Brazil, Chile, ]\Ie.xico, Barbados, and 

 British Guiana each one only. 



Shelley on African Birds. 



[The Birds of Afiica, comprising all the Species which occur iu tlie 

 Ethiopian Region. By G. E. Shellev. Completed and edited hy 

 W. L, Sclater. Vol. v. pt. ii. pp. viii and 16o-oU2, pis. 1-lvii. London 

 (Sotheran & Co.), 1912. 8vo.] 



Captain Shelley^s well-known work on the ' Birds of 

 Africa' was left unfinished at ids death, but, fortunately, 

 the manuscript and some proof-sheets were handed over 

 to Mr. W. L. Sclater, whose experience of the avifauna 

 of that continent qualifies him admirably for the task of 

 editor. lie has supplied certain descriptions which were 

 lacking, and has revised the whole iu the light of the 

 discoveries of the last six yeai's. The present instalment is 

 devoted to the group Lanii, which is subdivided in a some- 

 what unusual way — chiefly by the habits of the members, 

 though partly by the colour of the young and other 

 characteristics. In some cases the key of the genus requires 

 both male and female to be examined in order to determine 

 the species, a method of which we can hardly approve. 

 But, no doubt, the present Editor will not follow the same 

 course. 



The families admitted are Dicruridce, Vangidcs (Mada- 

 gascar and Great Comoro only), Campophagidce, Laniida: 

 (with subfamilies Laniina; and Laniariinai), and Prionopida 

 (with subfamilies Xilaina; and Prionopinoi). Of these the 

 first and third are usually considered less closely connected 

 with the Shrikes than Captain Shelley believed. 



Much space is devoted to a consideration of the ranges of 

 the various forms, and this is of undoubted utility in forming 

 a decision as to the validity of the species or subspecies, not 

 to mention races; the author i-efuses to recognise a fair 



