80 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
species are figured :— Pyrrhocoma ruficeps (rf and $ ), Sper- 
mophila superciliaris, Haplospiza unicolor and ? ), Pi- 
cumnus jheringi, and P. temmincki. 
3. j R. Blasius on Collections in the Mark and Pomerania . 
[Naturhistorische Studien und Reiseskizzen aus der Mark und Pommern. 
Von Dr. R. Blasius. Parts I., II. Monatschr. deutsck. Ver. zum Sckutze 
der Vogel welt, 1884, Nos. 7-10.] 
The author gives a very interesting account of a visit paid 
in May 1883 to the well-known collections of Dr. Altum at 
Eberswalde, Herr E. v. Homeyer at Stolp, and Herr Tancre 
at Anclam, and adds copious accounts of the many rarities 
and of the fine series of forms of various species from different 
localities examined in each of them. 
4. R. Blasius on Collections in Sweden and Norway . 
[Naturhistorische Studien und Reiseskizzen aus Schweden und Nor- 
wegen im Friihjahre 1884. Von Dr. R. Blasius. Mitth. des ornithol. 
Vereines in Wien, 1884.] 
This is a somewhat similar journal of the author’s tour in 
Sweden and Norway in 1884, and contains much useful 
information about the collections visited and the brother- 
naturalists interviewed. 
5. Buttikofer on Liberian Birds. 
[Zoological Researches in Liberia. A List of Birds collected by J. 
Biittikofer and G. F. Sala in Western Liberia, with Biological Observa¬ 
tions. By J. Buttikofer. Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 129.] 
Mr. Buttikofer commences his article with very full de¬ 
scriptions of Liberia, of its different regions, and of the general 
character of its varied fauna, which will be read with great 
interest by every naturalist. Landing at Monrovia, the 
capital of the Negro republic, in January 1880, our author 
and his companion fixed their first collecting-station at Sofore 
Place, on the St. Paul’s river, celebrated as the only river 
inhabited by Hippopotamus liberiensis . In October 1880, 
they transferred their quarters to Robertsport, the port of 
