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of text, and one coloured plate figuring a new species of 

 Owl, Megascops ffammeolus[idahoensis. It is exclusively dedi- 

 cated to the fauna of Idaho U. A., and contains the descrip- 

 tions of several new species of Mammals and Birds. 



1891. — Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 

 Vol. XX. Psittaci, hy T. Salvadori. London 1891. — Price : 

 30 shilings. 



This Volume prepared by the well known Italian Ornitho- 

 logist, Count Salvadori, is an excellent work, and will be of 

 great use to all Scientists. All the species known, up to date, 

 are concisely described. Fourteen new species are described. 

 They are: Eos challenger i, Neopsittacus rubripileum, Conurus 

 callogenys, Pyrrhura emma, and berlepschi, Psittacula flaves- 

 cens, Chrysotis virenticeps, inomata, and Salvïni, Urochro- 

 ma emmx, Geoffroyus floresianus , and sumbavensis Ptistes, 

 vetterensis, and Bolbopsittacus intermedins. 



Four new Genera are also described : Hypocharmosyna for 

 Tr-ichoglossus wilhelminx, Meyer, and others, Conuropsis for 

 Conurus carolinensis ; Neophema for the group Euphema 

 and Bolbopsittacus with Cyclopsittacus lunulatus for its type. 

 The following species are figured : Pyrrhura emma^ ber- 

 lepschi., rupicola, and rhodocephala, Myopsittacus luchsi, 

 Bolborhynchus andicola, Psittacula sclateri, Chrysotis diade- 

 mata. salvini, and chloronota, Pionopsittacus pyrrhops^ Tani- 

 gnathus everetti, and burbidgii, Palieornis ftnschi, Bolbop- 

 sittacus intermedins, Loriculus amabitis and quadricolor, 

 Platycercus xanthogenys, Cyanoramphus subflavescens and 

 cyanurus. 



1892. — Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, Vol. 

 XVI. Upup#: and Trochili, by Osbert Salvin, Coracle, Gypse- 

 lld#:,Caprimulgid#:, Podargid^:, and Steatornithid^:, by Ernst 

 Hartert. London. — Price : 36 shillings. 



This Volume contains 704 pages of text, and 14 coloured 

 plates representing : Upupa somalensis,Irrisorbollii. and jack- 

 soni, scoptelus castaneiceps , panychlora m1cans , clllro- 

 stilbon peru anus, heliangelus laticlavius, and violicollis 

 Heliotrypha speciosa. and barrali.Agyrtria c#:rulieceps,Ama- 

 zilia sumiclrasti, Iolema luminosa, Ph^lo^ma CKRVINIGULARlS, 

 Eriocnemis dyselius, and ventralis, Ghaetura uscheri, Gapri- 

 mulgus griseatus, and whitelyi, Lycornis mindanensis, and 

 lastly Batraciiostomus harterti. 



Since a long time, I was expecting the publication of this 

 Volume, in consequence of my own work, the Genera of 

 Humming Birds, which publication I began in the January 

 number of the Humming Bird, Vol; II, and which I stopped 

 in July ; because I wanted to study with great care, the part 

 on Trochili, prepared by the eminent Ornithologist Mr Osbert 

 Salvin. 



Since August last, when I received it, I have done so, during 



