200 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
1844 was elected the first Principal of the Boyal Agricultural 
College at Cirencester, subsequently undertaking the manage¬ 
ment of some estates in Ireland, where he continued his 
natural-history pursuits; hut his collections, books, and 
papers were lost through a fire at Cork. He died at 
Brighton on 25th September, 1884, in his ninety-first year. 
48. Olphe-Galliard on the Birds of Western Europe. 
[Contributions a la Faune Ornithologique de l’Europe Occidentale. 
Par Leon Olphe-Galliard. Fasc. xxxiii., Mars 1885; Fasc. v., Juin 
1885. 8vo. Bayonne.] 
The first Part of this work (cf. ‘Ibis/ 1885, p. 231) could not 
well avoid its title; but it will be observed that in the subse¬ 
quent issues the numeration is as far as possible from being 
consecutive. We have hitherto deferred our notices of the 
above two Parts, in the hope that some more would have 
appeared to fill up the gaps, but none have reached us, nor 
do we think that any others have been published. The former 
of the two now before us treats of the Ploceidse, “ an African 
family, with the exception of the Sparrows, which are their 
representatives in Europe.” The latter Part in date of issue 
contains Family V., Cygnidse; the author adopting Wagler’s 
genus Olor for the Cygnus musicus &c. group, but advocating 
the orthography Holor , in which we do not think he will have 
many followers. 
49. Palacky on the Distribution of Birds. 
[Die Verbreitung der Vogel auf der Erde. Monographie von Dr. 
Johann Palacky. 8vo. Wien: 1885.] 
After some preliminary remarks, the author takes Gray’s 
f Hand-list/ and reviews the distributions of the 11,162 
species therein mentioned in 70 different groups. In a 
second section Dr. Palacky treats of his subject geographi¬ 
cally, and divides the world ornithologically into four prin¬ 
cipal divisions (America, the Palsearctic Region, Africa, 
Australia), with a number of subdivisions to each. The 
treatise appears to us to be rather that of a compiler than 
of one drawing his conclusions from original work ; but 
this is, perhaps, a necessity of the case. 
