88 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
parvirostris, and Foudia consobrina. Besides these, there is 
in the collection a new form of Muscicapidse allied to Smith- 
ornis and Pseudobias, proposed to be called Humblotia flavi- 
rostris. We trust that further details and complete descrip¬ 
tions will soon be given of this very interesting collection. 
18. Oustalet on the Ornithological Congress of Vienna. 
[Rapport a M. le Ministre de l’lnstruction publique et de3 Beaux-Arts 
sur le Congres et rExposition Ornitbologiques de Vienne en 1884. Par 
M. E. Oustalet. Extr. des Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Litteraires, 
e6r. iii. vol. xii. Paris, 1885.] 
This is, perhaps, the fullest account of the ornithological 
doings at Vienna last year that lias yet been issued. It com¬ 
mences with a report on the ornithological exhibition which was 
opened from the 4th to the 14th of April, and which, besides 
living birds, contained several series of mounted specimens 
and skins from different quarters. Amongst them M. Ous¬ 
talet calls special attention to a collection from the Caucasus, 
presented by Prince Rudolph to the Ornithological Union of 
Vienna, and to a collection from Ecuador, formed by Baron 
Gabriel de Gunzberg during his recent travels in that 
country in company with M. Wiener. He also alludes to the 
“ Polar group ” of birds, amongst which were exhibited the 
specimens procured by Dr. Bernhard Fischer during Count 
Hans VitczelPs expedition to Jan-Mayen Island. In the 
intervals of the seances of the subsequent Ornithological 
Congress, which lasted from the 6th to the 10th of April, and 
of which M. Oustalet gives a very full account, visits were 
made by him, in company with Messrs. Steindachner and 
Pelzeln, to the Menagerie at Schonbrunn, the Imperial Mu¬ 
seum of Vienna, and to the private collection of the Prince 
of Cobourg. M. Oustalet, in concluding his excellent report, 
takes the opportunity of calling the attention of the Minister 
of Public Instruction to the three following points :— 
1. The want of any good modern work on the birds of 
France. 
2. The inordinate way in which the small birds are de¬ 
stroyed in France, to the serious detriment of agriculture. 
