356 Recently published Ornitholoyical Works. 
37. Hole on the Birds of the Zambesi Valley. 
[Some interesting Birds of the Zambesi Valley. By H. Marshall Hole. 
Proc. Rhodesia Sc. Assoc. vol. v. part 111. p. 99 (Buluwayo, 1905). ] 
We are much pleased to learn from this paper that there 
is an ornithologist engaged in the study of the Avifauna 
of the district between the Victoria Falls and the Barotse 
Valley, which, we are told, is “the abode of countless 
birds, many beautiful, and some, until lately, unknown to 
science.” 
Mr. Hole’s principal field-notes relate to the splendid 
Crimson-throated Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides), the Ground- 
Hornbill (Bucorax cafer), and the Marabou (Leptoptilus 
crumenifer), but other birds are mentioned. He should 
look out for the newly-discovered Love-bird of this district, 
Agapornis nigrigenis (see W. L. Sclater, Bull. B.O. C. xvi. 
p- G1). 
38. Journal of the South African Ornithologists’ Union. 
{The Journal of the South African Ornithologists’ Union. Vol. ii. 
No. 2. December 1906. Pretoria, Transvaal. | 
We have now received the second part of the second volume 
of this Journal, and are glad to find that the South African 
Ornithologists’ Union is making steady progress. The part 
commences with a report of the Third Annual Meeting of the 
Union, which took place in the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, 
on the 25th of August, 1906, with Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, 
V.P., in the Chair. After the formal business of the meet- 
ing had been transacted, the Chairman gave an address on 
recent additions to the Museum, and other matters relating 
to South African Ornithology. The oological collection 
had been much enriched by the acquisition of the fine 
series belonging to Mr. Ivy, of Grahamstown. While highly 
praising Stark and Sclater’s recently finished work on the 
birds of South Africa, the Chairman pointed out a defect 
which existed in the absence of the dates on which each 
species had been found in special localities, and sketched 
out a plan by which he thought the desired information 
