110 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
misled into calling an Oriole only found in the Philippines 
Oriolus chinensis {cf. Tweeddale^ P. Z. S. 1877, p. 760). This 
would indeed be a case of lucus a non lucendo ! 
13. David and Oustalefs ^ Birds of China.^ 
[Les Oiseaux de la Chine. Par M. I’Ahhe Armand David, M.C., 
Ancien Missionnaire en Chine, et M. E. Oustalet, Aide-Naturaliste an 
Museum. Avec un Atlas de 124 planches. Paris: Masson, 1877.] 
The name of Armand David is now familiar to zoologists 
as that of one of the most energetic and successful of the 
travelling naturalists of the present day; and the great feats 
that he has accomplished in China are well known to most of 
us. Of his narrative of his last expedition into the interior 
of that country we gave some account last year *; but we 
have now to notice a much more important work, in which 
M. David has had the assistance of M. Oustalet, the Ornitho¬ 
logist of the Jardin des Plantes. This is nothing less than a 
complete resume of all the known birds of the Chinese 
Empire—a considerable undertaking, considering the number 
of species contained in the Chinese ornis, and one of great 
usefulness, looking to the way in which the literature con¬ 
cerning them is scattered about in various journals and 
periodicals. 
By the exertions of our authors this is all now reduced 
into a uniform shape, or at all events correctly indexed; while 
an accompanying volume of plates (although the figures are 
not of the highest style of art) gives us portraits of most of 
the rarities that have lately been brought to light by the 
exertions of Pere David. 
The total number of species included in the present work 
as inhabitants of China is 807, of which 158 are likewise 
found in Europe, and about 249, so far as is hitherto known, 
are peculiar to China. Of each of these 807 species we have 
the principal synonyms, a short description, and the chief 
facts of its history indicated ; so that the work will be a most 
useful one to students of the Chinese avifauna. The following 
species appear to be now described as new for the first time— 
* See‘Ibis,’ 1877, p. 117. 
