THE BRITISH MUSEUM CATALOGUE OF BIRDS, VOL. Vv. 155 
former, but more or less overlaid with the bright red of the 
crown, and with a yellower tinge of this; lower back, rump, 
upper tail-coverts, tertiaries and tail, where not tinged with 
golden, the same pale greenish olive grey, as the ground of the 
interscapulary region. All the tail feathers tinged and 
margined on their outer webs, most strongly towards their 
bases, with a somewhat olivaceous golden ; outer webs of 
primaries and secondaries a brighter shade of this same golden ; 
inner webs deep hair brown ; primary coverts mostly golden ; 
secondary and tertiary greater coverts rich maroon chestnut ; 
their median and lesser ones a paler tint of this mingled with 
yellow. 
Che British Museum Catalogue of Birds, Vol. V. 
Ry Henry Seebshm. 
I HAVE too long already delayed to notice this valuable addi- 
tion to Ornithological Literature, and yet even now I find it 
impossible to make the time to review it alike as its merits 
deserve, and as in the interests of our favourite science would 
be desirable. 
To delay any longer, however, in calling attention to the 
mass of honest painstaking labour which this volume repre- 
sents, would be an act of ingratitude to one to whom all orni- 
thologists are greatly indebted ; and I mnst, therefore, faute de 
mieux, content myself with such brief remarks as shall induce 
brothers of the craft in India to study it for themselves, and 
leave toa time of greater leisure the detailed review that to 
my mind this volume specially demands. . 
In Volume V. we are presented with a catalogue of the 
known species of the Family of the Turpipa, as defined by 
Mr. Sharpe—a definition which I cannot but agree with Mr. 
Seebohm fails to synthesize a natural group, and on the 
contrary includes parts of two quite distinct groups. To avoid, 
as far as possible, the confusion that would result from this 
arrangement, Mr. Seebohm divides all the species falling 
within Mr. Sharpe’s definition into two sub-families—the 
SyLvin& or Warblers, and the TurDIn& or Thrushes. Of course 
this only partially meets the difficulty, for the definition of the 
Turdide, being such as it is, many of the most closely allied 
genera find themselves in different families, while united in the 
same family with many but distantly related ones, 
It is, however, only fair to recall that Mr. Sharpe himself was 
fully cognizant of the difficulties which his modification of 
