322 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



extremity of the island. Examples of thirty-five species were 

 obtained, but none of tlieni are characterized as new. 



Salvadori on Birds from the Congo. 



[Secondo contributo all' oruitologia del Congo per T. Salvadori. 

 Ann. Museo Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, xlv. 1912, pp. 444-456.] 



This paper may be considered as supplemental to a similar 

 one previously published by the same author (see Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Genova, xliv. pp. 320-326). It contains an account of 

 two more small collections made in Congoland by M. Ribotti. 

 The specimens are 103 in number, which are referred to 

 80 epecies. In the former collection some rare species were 

 represented; in the present series most of the species are 

 well known, but deserve to be recorded as occurring within 

 the limits of the Belgian Congo. 



As yet the birds of the vast area of Congoland seem to be 

 very imperfectly known. We are told there is a large series 

 of them in the new Museum of the Congo at Tervueren, 

 near Brussels, but that no ornithologist can be found there 

 to undertake the study of them. 



Say-udny and Harms on Persian Birds. 



[Bemerkungen iiber einige Vogel Persiens. Von N. Sanidny und 

 M. Harms. Journ. f. Ornith. 191L', pp. 592-619.] 



This somewhat lengthy paper deals with three species 

 only, obtained and o])served by the authors in 1900-1 in 

 eastern Persia and Baluchistan, viz., Passer yatii, Cinnyris 

 brevirostris, and Pycno7iotus leucotis. The first-named is a 

 very rare bird which had only been once previously obtained, 

 but our authors secured at least 186 examples, and give a 

 detailed account of its range, habits, nests, and eggs. The 

 nests are most remarkable, with tubular openings ten to 

 fourteen inches long, leading upwards or sideways, quite 

 unlike those of the other species of the genus. Six varieties 

 of these nests are figured. They were found in large 

 numbers in the tamarisks about the delta of the river 

 Helmund in Seistan. 



