Paradise-birds^ both referable to new genera *j besides many 

 other very interesting new species, have come to light ; and I 

 am told by Mr. De Vis that Sir "William MacGregor has 

 discovered a third new Paradise-bird. 



As regards Africa, I need only call attention to the 

 collections made under the directions of 'Sir. H. H. Johnston, 

 C.B., by Mr. Alexander Whyte in Nyasa-land, and de- 

 scribed in ^The Ibis' by Capt. Shelley. Our German 

 fellow-workers are also constantly engaged in characterizing 

 new species from both the Eastern and the Western German 

 territories in Tropical Africa. Passing across the Atlantic 

 to South America we might well suppose that the sti'eam of 

 novelties which has flowed from the Neotropical Region 

 abundantly for so many years, was now likely to stop. 

 But the collection recently received by Mr. Salvin from 

 Mr. Paron shows that even in Peru, which has been so 

 fully explored by the collectors of "Warsaw, this is not the 

 case. Mr. Salvin tells me that Mr. Barents recent collec- 

 tion (of which he will shortly write in ' Novitates Zoo- 

 logicee ') ccntains examples of no fcAver than 14 new species. 

 jMr. Garlepp's collections from Bolivia, which are submitted 

 to the experienced scrutiny of Graf von Berlepsch, also 

 often comprise examples of new and remarkable species. 

 There is likewise still much to be done in Tucuman and in 

 the adjoining noitliern jirovinces of Argentina, whence Herr 

 Paul Ncumimn lias lately sent a most interesting series of 

 specimens to the Berlin ^luseum {cf. Bull. B. O. C. iii.. 

 p. xlv). It is phiin, therefore, that wemay still look forward 

 for many years to the great pleasure of discovering, de- 

 scribing, and figuring new species in ' The Ibis^ and in our 

 'Bulletin.' 



Section II. Oknithological Works in Progress 

 AND Promised. 

 As regards Ornithological books, there has seldom, if 

 ever, I think, been a time -nben so many new. ones have 



* Lnria, Salvad. (Ibis, 1604, p. ;"C4), and Lawjn'otkornx, Meyer, 

 Abliandl. k. zool. Mas. Dresd. iv. no. 2. 



