192 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
24. Ernst on the Flora and Fauna of Venezuela, 
[Estudios sobre la Flora y Fauna de Venezuela por A. Ernst. 4to: 
Caracas, 1877.] 
This series of memoirs of Dr. Ernst, of Caracas—so far as 
we know, the only representative of biological science in his 
adopted country—contains a nominal list of the birds of 
Venezuela, compiled principally from Sclater and Salvin’s 
joint papers on the birds collected in that Republic by Hr. 
Goering and by Mr. Spence: 556 species are enumerated. 
Much revision is necessary before the list can be considered 
as accurate, species having been introduced on the autho¬ 
rity of Burmeister^s ^Thiere Brasiliens^ and Gray’s ^ Hand¬ 
list.’ 
25. Spencers ^ Land of Bolivar.* 
[The Land of Bolivar, or War, Peace, and Adventure in the Republic 
of Venezuela. By Janies Mudie Spence, F.R.G.S. With Maps and Illus¬ 
trations. 2 vols. 8vo. London: Sampson Low & Co. 1878.] 
Mr. Spence’s volumes contain much that is of interest to 
the naturalist concerning the varied and little-known Re¬ 
public of Venezuela, which is so accessible from our shores, 
and yet attracts so few visitors. At the same time the 
greater part of the book is taken up by personal adventures, 
politics, and statistics. Mr. Spence reprints in his appendix 
the paper (published P. Z. S. 1873, p. 511) on the birds which 
he collected, and gives (vol. i. pp. 266, 267) woodcuts of the 
two new species, Lochmias sororia^ and Crypturus cervini- 
ventris, which we owe to his exertions. 
26. Malm*s ^ Fauna of Gothenburg and Bohusland* 
[Goteborgs och Bohuslans Fauna. Ryggradsdjuren; af A. W. Malm. 
8vo: Goteborg, 1877]. 
This volume gives us an account of the vertebrated animals 
* Specimens of this species have since been acquired by Salvin and 
Godman from Columbia and Bolivia; and there can be little doubt that 
the bird from Peru, described by Dr. Cabanis as L. ohscurata (J. f. Orn. 
1873, p. 65), belongs to the same species. The latter name has priority 
over the one given by us.— Edd..] 
