118 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
which he did not reach without suffering various maladies 
and misfortunes. After a short rest here and at Kiou-Kiang, 
lower down the Yang-tze, Pere David resolved to make 
another excursion into the mountains of Kiangsi, in spite of 
his indifferent health. With this journey he occupied the 
last six months of 1873, returning to Kiou-Kiang in an al¬ 
most exhausted state at the end of January 1874, and shortly 
afterwards to Europe. 
Two maps serve to point out very accurately the author’s 
route, and add great interest to the narrative. 
Besides numerous notes on known species interspersed 
throughout the narrative, as already mentioned, Pere David 
gives several short indications of supposed new species dis¬ 
covered during his travels— Ithaginis sinensis (vol. i. p. 174), 
Pomatorhinus gravivox (ibid. p. 200), Carpodacus lepidus 
(ibid. p. 205), Pnoepyga halsueti (ibid. p. 210), Author a cy- 
anophrys (ibid. p. 345), Psaltria sophice (vol. ii. p. 167), Po¬ 
matorhinus swinhoii (ibid, p.269), Trochalopteron milni (ibid, 
p. 271), and Machlolophus rex (ibid. p. 275). Of these new 
species we shall, no doubt, have fuller accounts in the work 
which Pere David is now preparing upon the mammals and 
birds which he collected in China. He also makes a new 
genus, Babax (vol. i. p. 181), for Garrulax lanceolatus , Ver- 
reaux, and gives (vol. ii. p. 39, et seq.) a nominal list of the 
birds (195 in number) observed in Southern China from 
October 1872 to the end of April 1873. 
It would be of great advantage to science if Pere David 
would republish the Journal of his first two journeys in a 
similar manner, and with accompanying notes, to show us 
where “ Moupin 33 and the other terrce incognitce where he 
made so many wonderful discoveries, really are. 
2. The Marquis de Compiegne’s ‘^Equatorial Africa 
' [L’Afrique Equatoriale. Par le Marquis de Compiegne. Paris: 1876. 
2 vols. E. Plon & Co.] 
This is hardly to be called a scientific book; it is never¬ 
theless one which our ornithological friends will, we think, 
find both instruction and amusement in reading. The Mar- 
