92 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
25. Salvadori and Giglioli on new Woodpeckers. 
[Due nuove specie di Picchi raccolte durante il viaggio intorno al mondo 
della pirofregata Magenta. Descritte da T. Salvadori ed I?. Giglioli. 
Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, vol. xx.] 
The Woodpeckers described are lyngipicus frater , from 
Malacca, and I. waiter si, from Formosa. The specimens 
have been submitted to Mr. Hargitt, who agrees with the 
authors that the species are new. 
26. Seebohm’s e British Birds and their Eggs 
[A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs. 
By Henry Seebohm. Parts V. & VI. Royal 8vo. London : 1885.] 
The concluding portion of this work reached us just too 
late for notice in our previous issue, otherwise we should 
have been the first to congratulate Mr. Seebohm on the 
completion of his labours. We have from time to time 
expressed our favourable opinion of the illustrations and of 
the general aim of the work, although want of space and 
other considerations have hitherto precluded any extended 
notice; but the Parts now before us may be treated more fully. 
As heretofore, the systematic arrangement adopted by 
Mr. Seebohm is on somewhat independent lines. Part Y. 
commences with the family Charadriidse, in which are com¬ 
prised not only Plovers, but also the Scolopacidse. These 
are followed by the Laridse, Alcidse, Colymbidse, Procellariidse, 
Podicipedidae, Anatidae, and concluded by the Pelecanidse. 
An Appendix, treating of Mr. Seebohnr’s new species of Wren 
from St. Kilda, named Troglodytes hirtensis, about wFich we 
have heard so much, followed by an Introduction entitled 
“The Historians of British Birds,” Indexes, &c., and brief— 
too brief—lists of Errata et Addenda complete the work. 
Mr. Seebohm shows to less advantage when playing the 
iconoclast among what he is pleased to term “pseudo¬ 
genera” than when describing the habits of those species 
with which he has become personally acquainted during his 
extensive experiences in the field. As regards the latter 
the interest of these Parts is fully on a level with that of 
