Recently published Ornithological Works. 647 



Museum has been renamed after its renowned founder, and 

 his work on Brazilian birds has been undertaken by a learni d 

 lady, Dr. Emilia Snethlage, who has already made con- 

 siderable additions to our knowledge of the Avifauna of the 

 Amazons region. 



The present stout volume contains a review of all the 

 species of birds hitherto recorded from the basin of the 

 Amazon, extending westwards from the sea to the Andes 

 and northwards to the water-parting of the Amazons and 

 Orinoco. 



A short description of each species is given, as well as 

 analytical keys to the orders, genera, and species ; also the 

 exact localities of the examples in the extensive collections 

 of the Goeldi Museum, and as far as possible the common 

 Portuguese name. 



In the introduction will be found a short list of the 

 literature of the subject, some account of the history of 

 ornithological exploration in northern Brazil, and notes on the 

 limits of the region treated of. This last is m'cII illustrated 

 by a map. Five other plates, to explain the structural 

 characters of birds, will assist the amateur to identify the 

 generic position of any bird, and the whole work is designed 

 not only for the collectors in the field in Brazil, but also 

 for the workers in the museums of Europe and elsewhere. 

 Unfortunately, it is written in the Portuguese language, 

 which is not very well known ; but this, we suppose, was 

 inevitable in a work published in Brazil. 



We must congratulate Miss Snethlage on having brought 

 to a conclusion a most laborious and conscientious piece of 

 work, and hope that it will stimulate the activities of 

 Brazilian ornithologists to make better known the extra- 

 ordinarily rich and varied avifauna of a land rendered classical 

 by the early work of our compatriots, Bates and Wallace. 



Surface on the Structure of the Hen's Oviduct. 



[The Histology of the Oviduct of the Domestic Hen. By Frank M. 

 Surface. Ann. Rep. Maine Agricult. Exper. Station for 1912, pp. 395- 

 430, 4 pis. Orono, Maine, U.S.A.] 



This paper contains a careful study of the intimate structure 



