506 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Mr. Radcliffe Saunders, and to the bequests of the late 
Mr. Seebohm and Mr. Philip Crowley, the ornithological 
collection of the British Museum has been gradually raised 
to the foremost position...... I believe that the utmost 
estimate of the number of bird-skins and eggs in it in the 
year 1872, when I took office, would be 30,000 or 35,000 
at the most. At the present moment the series is more 
than 400,000 in number, of which the eggs alone are nearly 
100,000 ! !” 
82. Waddell on the Birds of Tibet. 
[Lhasa and its Mysteries, with a Record of the Expedition of 1903-4. 
By L. Austine Waddell, LL.D., C.B., &e. Third Edition, 1906. } 
Besides the collection of which Capt. Walton gave us an 
excellent account last year (see ‘ Ibis,’ 1906, p. 57), a second 
collection of birds was made during the British expedition to 
Lhasa by Dr. Waddell, one of the principal medical officers. 
Part of this collection was examined by Mr. Dresser, who 
described as new three species represented in it (Babax 
waddelli, Garrulax« tibetanus, and Lanius lama) before the 
Zoological Society in 1905 (see P. Z. 8. 1905, vol. i. p. 54), 
and made a few remarks on other species included in it. 
In the interesting and well-illustrated narrative of the 
expedition to Lhasa contained in the present work there are 
some allusions to birds, and in an Appendix “ On the Fauna 
of Central Tibet” a general description of the principal 
species observed is given. Dr. Waddell agrees with Captain 
Walton in stating that the Lammergeyer (Gypaétus bar- 
batus), in company with the large Gyps himalayensis, was the 
common carrion-feeder on the carcasses of the dead transport 
animals “ which lined the way ” of the Expedition. 
83. Wytsman’s ‘ Genera Avium? 
[Genera Avium, conducted by P. Wytsman. 6th Part *. Picarie, 
Fam. Coliide. By P. L. Sclater, D.Sc., F.R.S. 1906. Price 3s. 7d. 
7th Part. Steganopodes, Fam. Pelecanide. By Dr. A. Dubois. 1907. 
8th Part. Picarie, Fam. Musophagide. By Dr. A. Dubois. 1907. | 
The sixth part of Wytsman’s ‘ Genera Avium ”’ is devoted 
* For previous notices of the ‘Genera Avium,’ see ‘ Ibis,’ 1906, p. 211, 
and 1904, pp. 171, 309, 
