Recently published Ornithological Works. 397 
might be obtained. Mr. J. A. S. Bucknill was elected 
President and Mr. A. K. Haagner Hon. Secretary for the 
ensuing year; and Messrs. Bucknill, Gunning, and Haagner 
were appointed as the Publication Committee for 1907, 
1908, and 1909. 
The two principal papers in this number of the Journal 
are an account by Mr. L. E. Taylor of the birds met with 
in the vicinity of Irene, near Pretoria, and ‘‘ Notes on 
a Collection of Birds made in North-east Rhodesia by 
Dr. F. E. Stoehr,” prepared by Dr. Stoehr and Mr, W. L. 
Sclater. The last paper is of considerable interest, as 
very little work on birds had been previously done in this 
part of Rhodesia. In the list 249 species are recorded, 
several of which are not to be found in the South African 
Catalogue—e. g., Poliospiza reichardi, Macronyx fueleborni, 
Parus insignis, Andropadus masukuensis, Hyliota barboze, 
Lybius macclouni, and Agapornis liliane, all species known 
in Nyasaland. Dr. Stoehr found the White Stork (Ciconia 
alba) nesting near Feira in December—a very singular 
occurrence. Many interesting notes and notices conclude 
this excellent number, with which our South African friends 
have every reason to be satisfied. 
39. Kollibay’s ‘ Birds of Silesia.’ 
[Die Vogel der Preussischen Provinz Schlesien. Von Paul Kollibay. 
l vol. 8vo. Breslau, 1906. 870 pp.] 
Herr Paul Kollibay, of Neise, a well-known German 
ornithologist and a Member of our Union, is the author of 
this useful Handbook of the birds of the Prussian Province 
in which he dwells. As no account of the birds of Silesia 
appears to have been published since the issue of Gloger’s 
‘Schlesiens Wirbeltierfauna’ in 1833, it is quite time that 
a new work on the subject should be prepared; and here 
we have it, from the pen of a fully competent authority. 
Reichenow, in his last list, assigns 405 species to the 
Avifauna of the German Empire, of which 227 are breeding- 
birds. Herr Kollibay claims 317 for Silesia, of which 
