Recently published Ornithological Works. 479 
belonging to the five families treated of in the present volume 
is 367, of which 315 are represented (by 2014 specimens) in 
the British Museum. The new generic terms used are 7 in 
number—namely, Heterocorax , Rhinocorax , Microcorax, Ma- 
crocorax, Pseudorectes, Melanorectes , and Pinarolestes. The 
species described as new are Strepera intermedia , Psilo- 
rhinus cyanogenys, Phonygama jamesii , Oriolus diffusus, O. 
steerii, Sphecotheres salvadorii, Irena melanochlamys , I. cri- 
niger, I. tweeddalii, Rectes tibialis, R. aruensis, Collyriocincla 
pallidirostris, Bradyornis woodwardi, and B. diabolicus —14 in 
all, besides several “ subspecies.” 
In concluding this short notice of a most important work, 
we cannot but congratulate Mr. Sharpe upon the energy he 
has displayed in attacking the formidable task of a general 
descriptive catalogue of birds, and express our sincere hopes 
that he may be able to bring it to a successful conclusion. 
56. Sharpe’s Birds of Kerguelen’s Island. 
[Transit-of-Venus Expedition. Zoology.—Birds. By R. Bowdler 
Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 4to, pp. 62, pis. vi.-viii.] 
Mr. Sharpe’s share of this paper relates chiefly to the no¬ 
menclature of the species included in it, and to the labour of 
getting together all previous information respecting the birds 
of Kerguelen Island. The Bev. E. A. Eaton, the naturalist 
attached to the English Transit Expedition to this place, has 
furnished copious field-notes on the species observed by him, 
which considerably enhance the interest of the paper. The 
nesting-habits of many of the birds are also fully described 
by him; and the memoir gives a very complete account of the 
ornithology of this island. A good deal of the ground traversed 
in the papers on the same subject by Drs. Kidder and Coues, 
and Drs. Cabanis and Reichenow, the former of whom de¬ 
scribed the ornithology relating to the American, the latter 
to the German Transit Expedition, is necessarily gone over 
again. But, besides incorporating the labours of his imme¬ 
diate predecessors, Mr. Sharpe has very properly added an 
account of all the available materials collected by the Ant¬ 
arctic Expedition to which Sir J. Hooker was attached, as 
