486 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
occupies more than its share with other zoological matter. 
Nearly every branch of Zoology is treated of; and the work 
shows with what praiseworthy energy the scientific depart¬ 
ments of these surveys have been, and are., supported by the 
United-States Government. 
64. Finsch’s Collections from Siberia. 
[Westsibiriscke Forschungsreise 1876 unter Fiilirimg von Dr. O. Finscli. 
Catalog der Ausstelhmg ethnographischer und naturwissenscliaftliclier 
Sammlungen. Mit erlauternden Bemerknngen von Dr. 0. Finscli. 8vo, 
pp. 42. Bremen: 1877.] 
This catalogue is issued by the Geographical Society of 
Bremen, and contains a list of the specimens of various kinds 
obtained by the expedition sent during last year to Western 
Siberia under the direction of our well-known Foreign Mem¬ 
ber, Dr. Finsch. In the earlier part of this volume (pp. 48 
-66) will he found ornithological letters, addresssd to us by 
Dr. Finsch from various points of the route taken. In the 
present catalogue lists of the characteristic birds of the dif¬ 
ferent districts visited are given, divided as follows—the 
characteristic birds of the steppes, of the steppe-lakes, of the 
high mountains, of the valley of the Ob, and of the “ tundra ” 
region. A more complete account of the collection is, we 
believe, being drawn up. 
65. Oustalet on new Species of Ibis. 
•[“ Sur une nouvelle espece d’lbis (Ibis gigantea ),” and u Description 
d’une nouvelle espece d’lbis (Ibis harmandi ).” Bull. Soc. Pbilomathique, 
7 me serie, i. pp. 25-30. Paris: Jan. 1877.] 
The first of these birds, indeed a giant amongst its kindred, 
is described from a specimen in the Paris Museum, which 
was obtained by Mons. Harmand on the banks of the Me¬ 
kong river, in Cambodia. M. Oustalet compares it with 
Ibis papillosa, which, however, it largely exceeds in dimen¬ 
sions, in this respect approaching the size of Tantalus. The 
second species appears to have been long represented in the 
gallery of the Paris Museum by a specimen obtained in 1862 
by M. Bocourt in the kingdom of Siam. Additional speci- 
