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enumerated, of wliicli six are described as new (see MotaciU 
lid(jp, Turdidce, Oriolidoi, Laniidoi, Sturnidae, Tetraonidad) 
^Barkly, Sir Henry. Notes on the Fauna and Flora of Round 
Island. Trans. R. Soc. Maur. n. s. toI. iv. p. 109. . 
/ A few general remarks on birds of the locality (p. 121),/ 
^Blanford, W. T. Observations on the Geology and Zoology 
of Abyssinia. London : 1869. 8vo, pp. 487, pis. 
Tlie author o£4his excellent bt»ok was Geologist to the late 
Abyssinian Expedition, and accompanied the troops to Magdala. 
He subsequently visited the Bogos Country in company with 
Mr. William Jesse, and on each journey collected such birds as 
he could. The ornithological portion of this work is considerable 
(pp. 285-443), 293 species being noticed, some of which are 
figured for the first time (see Hirundinidoi, Sylviid(Bj Alaudid(Bj 
and Fringillidce) . [C/’. Ibis, 1870, pp. 504, 505 .] J 
Finsch, O., & Hartlaub, G. Baron C. C. von der Decken^s 
Reisen in Ost-Afrika. Vierter Band. Die Vogel Ost- 
Afrika^s. Leipzig und Heidelberg : 1870. Imp. 8vo, 
pp. 897. 
This is the most important ornithological work of the year, 
and gives a very complete account of the birds of Eastern 
Africa. The knowledge of African ornithology possessed by one 
author, with the industry of the other, have combined, as might 
have been expected, to produce a volume which, so far as ma- 
terials exist, exhausts the subject; and it would be impossible 
within any reasonable space to give an abstract of this work, a 
task the less necessary since the book must be possessed and con- 
stantly studied by every student of African ornithology. We can- 
not help regretting certain changes in nomenclature introduced 
by the authors, proceeding, we thiidt, from a mistaken principle ; 
but as these have been strongly censured elsewhere (Ibis, 1870, 
pp. 512, 513) and criticism is out of place in this ^ Record,^ we 
are glad to let them pass. They form, indeed, the only fault 
we have to find with an otherwise excellent book. The syno- 
nymy and geographical distribution of each species is worked 
out with extraordinary care ; and the account of the Grallm men- 
tioned has been written with a completeness unequalled in any 
publication with which we are acquainted. ^J?he volume opens 
Avith an elaborate introduction (pp. 1-27), to which succeeds a 
notice of each species in detail (pp. 31-851), followed by a sup- 
plement and appendix containing information acquired during 
tlie progress of the work, which is illustrated by eleven plates 
representing new or unfigured species, and is completed by an 
excellent index. The number of species included is 457, of 
which, according to the authors^ classification, 44 belong to 
Accipitres, 222 to Passer es, 23 to Scansores, 12 to Columba, 19 to 
