Recently published Ornithological Works. 151 
good photographs and excellent maps illustrate this part 
of the work. (See ' Ibis/ 1887, p. 853.) 
The fifth chapter is devoted to an essay on the Fauna 
of the Canary Islands^ the Avifauna of which has been of 
late years so fully worked out by Mr. Meade- Waldo (Ibis, 
1889-94) and Dr. Konig (Jouru. f. Orn. 1890). The 63 
" breeding-birds '' of the group are enumerated, and various 
new Canarian " subspecies " are created. In the course of 
the remarks it is proposed to make of our British Robin a 
subspecies Erithacus rubecula melophilus^ and of our Swift 
a subspecies Apus apus apus. 
The sixth chapter contains an enumeration of the 27 birds 
of the Los Islands, on the west coast of Africa, amongst 
which the most remarkable species is the extraordinary 
Sturnid Coccycolius iris Oust._, only known as yet from this 
locality. 
In the seventh and eighth chapters the author returns 
to ^' Haussaland,^^ and gives us a list of the 189 species of 
birds as yet recorded to have been found within its limits. 
HypochcBra ^ wilsoni (scr. Hypochera) is described as a new 
species. 
15. Hartert on new Birds from Ecuador. 
[Ou some Birds from North-west Ecuador. By Ernst Hartert. Nov. 
Zool. viii. pp. 369-371.] 
The following species are described — Neocrex uniformis 
and Pittasoma rufopileatum, besides some subspecies, while 
the remarkable Dacnis berlepschi Hart, and Grallm'ia pur- 
ambt£ Rothsch. (already characterized in the Bull. B. O, C.) 
are figured. 
16. Harting's ' Handbook of British Birds.' 
[A Handbook of British Birds, showing: the Distribution of the Resident 
and Migratory Species in the British Islands, with an Index to the Records 
of the Rarer Visitors. By J. E. Harting, F.L.S., E.Z.S. New and revised 
edition. London : John C. Nimmo, 1901. 1 vol. 8vo. 520 pp. 
Price 42s. net. t] 
* Cf. Bp. Consp. i. p. 450 and the Greek Dictionary {xrjpa, vidua). 
t This work was published last year, but the copy sent to us was 
accidentally mislaid, and escaped our notice until it was too late for the 
last number. — Edd. 
