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complete knowledge of the avifauna of Montserrat. A note 
on Mr. Sturge’s collections will be found in the ‘ Proceedings 
of the Zoological Society’ for 1879 (p. 764). 
New Works in preparation.—Mr. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay 
is editing for the Marchioness of Tweeddale a reprint of the 
ornithological works of the late Marquis. The work will be 
im quarto, and make two volumes, which, furnished with the 
editor’s notes and indexes, will be most useful to those who 
are studying the birds of India and Eastern Asia, and will 
form a valuable memorial of the much-lamented author. 
Dr. Hartlaub, we understand, is intending to publish a new 
edition of his excellent little ‘ Handbook of the Birds of Ma- 
dagascar.’ Mr. Seebohm is working hard on his volume of 
the British-Museum Bird-Catalogue, which will embrace the 
Turdide and Sylviide. The volume on the birds of the 
‘ Challenger ’ Expedition, containing a reprint of the reports 
on the several collections already published in the ‘ Pro- 
ceedings of the Zoological Society,’ with notes and additions 
by the editor (Sclater), is nearly ready for press. It will be 
illustrated by thirty coloured plates. 
Salvadori’s ‘Ornithology of New Guinea”—The first part of 
Count Salvadori’s ‘ Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Mo- 
lucche’ is now ready for issue. It contains the Accipitres, 
Psittaci, and Picariz, of which there are 255 species credited 
by the author to New Guinea and the Moluccas. The volume 
is in quarto, and contains about 560 pages. There is a short 
preface, the description of the species, a systematic and 
a synonymic index. Of each species there is the full syn- 
onymy, a Latin description, a mention of all the localities in- 
habited, a descriptive catalogue of all the specimens collected 
in New Guinea and the Moluccas by Beccari, D’Albertis, and 
Bruijn, and general remarks. The volume will be issued 
in the ‘Memorie della R. Accademia delle Scienze di 
Torino. Only a very limited number of separate copies 
