RG OE atten 


HONSE Dusors. 1907. Pp. 4; pl. i 
, Picarize—Fam. Musophagide. 
ONSE Dusors. 1907. Pp. 9; pls. 5 



















































been published, one of which (part 
ugh dated 1906, apparently was not 
il May, 1907. The general treat- 
he same as that of preceding parts, 
not again be explained. “Genera 
is, of course, not an exhaustive 
mut the editor, Mr. P. Wytsman, de- 
the thanks of ornithologists for his 
to bring out a work that shall present 
renient, succinct form, the most im- 
oints regarding genera and species, 
regard for the results of recent 
ide, or colies (part VI.), a highly 
_ African family allied to the king- 
is considered by Dr. Sclater to con- 
tice of the five previous numbers, cf. 
S., XXIV., 1906, pp. 438-439. 

JANUARY 3, 1908] SCIE 
sist of eight species. No subspecies are ad- = 
mitted, notwithstanding that all but two of the 
species have been subdivided, and we think 
rightly, by recent authors. The nomenclature _ 
is not fully up to date, for two of the species 
> have older tenable names than those here used. 
+. _ A new name, Colius hematonotus, is given, 
a. 
apparently by inadvertence, in the key on page 
three, to Colius castanonotus Verreaux. Our 
author refers all the species of this family to a 
single genus, but, as we have elsewhere shown, 
Urocolius Bonaparte, containing Urocolius 
macrourus and Urocolius indicus (= erythro- 
_ melon Auct.), has more than one claim to 
recognition. The single plate in this part 
represents Colius leucocephalus and details of 
two other species. 
The cosmopolitan family Pelecanide (peli- 
cans) (part VII.) comprises, according to 
Doctor Dubois, the single genus, Pelecanus, 
with eleven forms, three of which he ranks as’ 
subspecies. In the case of Pelecanus cali- 
fornicus, which he considers a race of Pele- 
canus fuscus (or, as it should be called, Pele- 
canus occidentalis Linnzeus), he is probably 
right; but Pelecanus thagus Molina is appar- 
ently a distinct species. The plate shows a 
figure of the somewhat doubtful Pelecanus 
sharpei, together with the heads of four other 
forms. 
The Musophagidx, or plantain eaters (part 
VII1.), another characteristic African family, 
are here referred to seven genera, without sub- 
families. The largest genus, T’wracus, contains 
twenty-one forms, including several sub- 
3 but ae the other genera are small, 
