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Recently published Ornithological Works. 
rarities represented as Entomodestes coracinus, Oreomancs 
fraseri } and Oreothraupis arremonops. 
In the second memoir, in which the Passeres Clamatores 
are treated, six species out of 180 represented in the col¬ 
lection are described as new. These are Elainia cinerei- 
frons , Pseudomyiobius (gen. nov.) annectens , Synallaocis sub - 
speciosa, Sclerurus salvini , Dendrocincla macrorhyncha , and 
Acropternis infuscata. Seven others are stated to be hew to 
Ecuador, and Or allaria gigantea is of great interest as the 
third known example of this rare species. 
64. Seebohm’s ‘ Monograph of the Thrushes.’ 
[A Monograph of the Turdidae, or Family of Thrushes. By the late 
Henry Seebohm. Edited and completed (after the Author’s death) by 
R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. Part vii. Imperial 4to. 
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1899.] 
The seventh part of this work, issued in December last, con¬ 
cludes the true Turdi (according to Seebohm's arrangement), 
and commences the group of Merulce. The following species 
are figured :— Turdus cabanisi, T. milanjensis , T. libonyanus } 
T. pelios , T. saturatus , T. stormsi, T. cryptopyrrhus , Mei'ula 
merula , M. mandarina , M. boulboul , M. albicincta, and M. tor- 
quata (two plates). A figure of Merula alpestris , the Alpine 
form of the Ring-Ouzel, is deferred until the next number. 
65. Stai'k’s Birds of South Africa. 
[The Fauna of South Africa. Edited by W. L. Sclater. The Birds 
of South Africa. By Arthur C. Stark, M.B. Yol. I. London : Porter, 
1900.] 
We have now before us the first volume of the work of 
our much-lamented friend, the late Dr. Stark, on the Birds 
of South Africa, which forms the first of Mr. W. L. Sclater’s 
proposed series of treatises on the fauna of that country. 
Dr. Stark's introduction is dated at Durban on October 10th, 
1899. Thence he proceeded to Ladysmith, to attend on the 
sick and wounded, and there he met his death on November 
18th, as already described in our number for January last 
(supra, p. 220). 
